Content management World Wide Wrap

Interwoven, provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions for business, announced that approximately 1 200 IT leaders are expected to convene at the company`s annual user event, GearUp 06: The ECM Solutions Conference, to be held in Florida, between 3 and 5 April 2006, according to a company statement.

The event is touted as one of the year`s leading ECM-focused conferences, attracting customers, partners and ECM industry experts for three days of educational and interactive sessions on ECM solutions and best practices.

The event will include keynote addresses by leading Interwoven customers, over 70 breakout sessions addressing the full range of Interwoven solution and product areas, partner participation from technology leaders including Microsoft and Sun, and an exclusive gala reception.

Thanks to regulatory developments, which have made the mismanagement of documents an executive responsibility, the drive for compliance has made enterprise content management (ECM) a boardroom issue, says Joe Rios, content management consultant at Bateleur Software Solutions, reports eStrategy.

One such compliance issue is that legislation such as the Electronic Communications and Transactions (ECT) Act recognises electronic communication as legal and binding, and requires that it be retained in its original format. The Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA) requires financial sector companies acquire and retain multiple customer identification to reduce money-laundering, increases the documentation burden.

Growing volumes of information are making content management increasingly indispensable, says Rios. This is endorsed by a University of California study, which estimates an annual growth of stored data of 30%. "More users are producing more output, while content needs to be found faster than ever before," he says.

Xerox India has launched a Web-based enterprise content management software, DocuShare 4.0, reports The Hindu. The software features a "digital library" tool to give businesses access to their document repositories and gives multiple users across the enterprise the ability to edit documents collaboratively, the company says.

With DocuShare 4.0, users can index, manage, store and share electronic information created in such application as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel and e-mail image, sound and video files. The enhanced management controls ensure that only authorised users make changes to critical documents such as business policies and legal contracts, it says.