Austria looks to ECM

Austria's Federal Computing Centre is rolling out enterprise content management (ECM) as a shared service using the ECM suite from Open Text, reports PR Newswire.

The Austrian Federal Computing Centre is the information and communications supplier for the country's federal ministries. The centre provides computing infrastructure throughout Austria at more than 1 200 locations and oversees about 30 000 workplaces.

SAP applications and applications based on the Open Text ECM suite are used for managing and archiving e-mails, projects and contracts. It's used at Austrian universities, the Austrian ministries of finance and justice, as well as at the centre itself.

Cloud storage start-up ParaScale and open source content management provider Alfresco Software have teamed up to integrate a cloud-based enterprise content management package using both companies' software on the same hardware, states eWeek.

The two companies are using new architecture to scale out for high-demand workloads.

ParaScale CEO Sajai Krishnan says the combined package enables IT shops to store and access content in the cloud without adding management overhead or cost, offers easy configuration and setup, and ensures smooth scale-out of capacity.

Online learning and mobile solutions provider OnPoint Digital released several CellCast Mobile Widget applications facilitating learning to mobile enterprise workers, says PR Web.

The new widgets allow mobile devices based on Google's Android environment, and smartphones based on Nokia's Symbian, to receive tracked assignments and tests. OnPoint has also added on-device training support for Microsoft Windows and Android-based ultra portable computers.

Robert Gadd, OnPoint president and co-founder, says: "Our top priority continues to be giving customers more ways to package and deliver mobile-ready content and communications to the broadest array of smartphones and mobile devices they rely on to help run their businesses."