EMC, Microsoft perform 'Duet' around ECM
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(InfoWorld) - EMC and Microsoft are substantially stepping up their existing enterprise content management (ECM) relationship to provide tighter integration between EMC's Documentum ECM software and Microsoft's Office, Outlook, and SharePoint products. As part of the expanded relationship announced Tuesday, EMC's Documentum will support Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 database later this quarter, according to John McCormick, vice president of product management, content management software at EMC EMC also plans to bring out two services designed to link Documentum and Microsoft software content and archiving, he said. The two services are set to debut early in the first quarter of 2007 as Microsoft releases SharePoint Server 2007. EMC expects to release pricing for the two services -- EMC Documentum Content Services for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and EMC Documentum Archive Services for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 later this year. The idea is to have Microsoft software as the front-end for Documentum software as a way to increase the number of users of EMC's products and give more Microsoft customers easier access to complex ECM functionality. It's the same strategy Microsoft is adopting with a number of applications partners, notably with SAP around the Duet product, said Rob Bernard, general manager of Microsoft's global independent software vendor team.Â Formerly known as Project Mendocino, Duet was jointly developed by Microsoft and SAP to let users access data and processes from SAP's back-end business applications via Microsoft's front-end desktop Office software suite. "This is the culmination of a vision we've been working on for a number of years," Bernard said. "It's about unifying the front end with the back end that the casual user needs to interact with in ECM, ERP, and CRM." Using the upcoming Documentum archive services, users can manually or automatically flow content from SharePoint repositories to a Documentum repository while enabling users to access and search the content from the SharePoint Server 2007 software. Archiving SharePoint content in Documentum should help companies in meeting compliance regulations, McCormick said. Unlike Duet, the services are only being offered by EMC. The previous ECM relationship between EMC and Microsoft was more reactive than proactive, Bernard said. McCormick agreed. "Before we worked on [Documentum] integration with Office and Outlook 2003," he said. "Microsoft supplied the tools, EMC or our partners built out the solution. This is different. EMC and Microsoft are together." As yet, the two companies aren't working together on Web content management, but that could be a logical next step to further expand their relationship, the executives noted.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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IBM  on Friday will take aim at the heart of data storage equipment leader EMC Corp.'s  market with a product that will allow EMC buyers to switch to IBM.
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VMWare sales up 89 percent Brisk corporate spending on storage devices lifted EMC's second-quarter profit by 20 percent and caused the company to boost - slightly - its estimate for the year. But investors drove down EMC shares, proving that sometimes good isn't good enough.â¦
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EMC has hired a former IBM veteran to be its chief technology officer, in what appears to be the latest step in EMC&#39;s evolution from a data storage hardware specialist to a more comprehensive computing company.
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. EMC today announced Express Solution
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Virtual circle EMC Corporation has announced new data deduplication capabilities in EMC Avamar version 3.7, which now also supports VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) for the protection and reduction of backup times within and across virtual machines.â¦
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LAS VEGAS  -   Microsoft and Ford Motor are adding emergency-call capability with no monthly fee to Sync - their joint, in-car wireless system that lets drivers control cellphones and music players with voice commands - in a challenge to General Motors' OnStar technology.
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NearTek buy: can anyone say leverage? EMC has extended its relationship with its virtual tape library (VTL) software partner FalconStor until 2013. The storage monster's manoeuvrings last year, however, may reveal how EMC put the squeeze on during negotiations.â¦
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For the second time in two weeks, IBM Corp. will unveil a product designed to challenge its archrival in the data storage business: EMC Corp. of Hopkinton. EMC dominates the market for high-end corporate storage hardware, but IBM's new ''storage virtualization&quot; software could encourage defections from EMC by making it easier for companies to mix and match storage hardware from ...
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More than 80 percent of VMware income comes from higher-level tools, a move that gives the EMC subsidiary more breathing room against rivals.Getting real about virtualization
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EMC joined an end-of-year software acquisition spree Tuesday when it agreed to acquire network management software maker Smarts Inc.
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Courts SMBs with bigger array EMC is reinvigorating efforts to win the hearts and wallets of SMBs with a new storage area network (SAN) array.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- EMC Corp. moved Tuesday to beef up its network-management software offerings via the acquisition of Smarts Inc.
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EMC Corp. of Hopkinton plans to turn virtual software into real cash. The company will sell 10 percent of its California software subsidiary VMware Inc. in an initial public offering this year. VMware dominates the field of virtualization software -- programs that let a single computer do the work of several machines.
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EMC and SAP are reportedly developing plans to jointly create a platform for delivering hosted software services.
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Hitachi Data Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard this week are trying to leapfrog EMC for enterprise-class storage leadership using pretty much the same product -- HDS&#39;s new TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform.
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Beware IBM, HP, Dell and Sun EMC's grand stretch across the data center continued this week with the purchase of Voyence - a maker of network configuration software.â¦