Additions to the Enterprise Applications Market

Google Adds Docs Functionality
Yesterday, Microsoft puts Office 2010 out on general release and Google added new functionality to Google Docs. According to the Google Documents official blog their new documents and spreadsheets editors have been released making both simpler to utilize and edit in addition to adding some more sauce to draw users away from Office 2010 and its online version programs. All new docs will be created using the new documents editor. According to the blog and the new editor was built for quicker real time collusion, better imports and more control of document's layout. Since the preview, they have also additional new features including a table of contents, a special characters dialog, a compendium, search as-you-type and re-sizable photographs.
A more recent version of spreadsheets is also available as the default to everybody beginning this week too. New features here include formula highlighting, sheet pulling, sheet menu, quicker scrolling, an editable formula bar, autocomplete in cells, copy sheet from one spreadsheet to another and range sorting. These new editors will become the default editors for Google programmes users too. Google will start turning on the new editor for documents on June twenty-one and for spreadsheets on June 30.
Office 2010 Eventually Available For All
And as you can't have Google Documents without Microsoft Office a short word to assert Office 2010 is ultimately on general release as of later in the day so all those that have not been able to access it in work will ultimately be in a position to see what all of the hubbub is about. There's been plenty of talk about Office 2010 here over the last few months so that the features are likely familiar to most. And the endorsed pricing has additionally been released. Office Home and Student 2010, the most simple bundle of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, will cost US $150 and can be installed on as much as 3 PCs.
A US $280 version incorporates the Outlook email programme while a US $500 bundle adds Publisher and Access. Together with the Office 2010 suite, users can now purchase Visio 2010 and Project 2010 both in stores and at the official Microsoft store on the web. PCs will now be shipped pre loaded with Office 2010 in the next twelve months. These ready loaded Office 2010 apartments can be turned on by buying a product key card at a retail outlet or on the internet.
OfficeDrop Puts stress on Microsoft
However, competition for Microsoft and Office 2010 will be stiff as other companies start to get in on the Google Docs act. This week, as an example, online document managing company OfficeDrop has launched recently a new release feature that may permit consumers to instantly get their paper scanned and into Google Docs as text-searchable PDFs. Using the new service, client can send paper documents to OfficeDrop in pre-paid envelopes and boxes. OfficeDrop then scans and uploads the files to a safe online document management portal that's both a search website and organizational tool for paper and digital files. When OfficeDrop folders or files are linked to Google Documents, the documents are automatically uploaded to Google Docs as text searchable PDFs.
This is a forceful collusion tool for offices that battle with the location and exchange of info, particularly since the OfficeDrop system makes everything searchable by adding OCR ( optical personality recognition ) to any document uploaded to the OfficeDrop document management system. Now , Google Documents does not provide OCR for non-text rich files, but OfficeDrop makes files text searchable, so any documents sent to Google Docs from OfficeDrop can then be searched efficiently. If you'd like to join OfficeDrop you can do so thru the Google programs Market or on OfficeDrop's site
SAP Extends Open Text Agreement
An extended agreement between Open Text and SAP implies that SAP is to begin to sell Open Text's information management solution that includes file managements capacities for staff records and effectively streamlines their human resources operations. This isn't the 1st time the 2 have got together. SAP before sells Open Text solutions for document management including access and backing up as well as digital asset management. This latest agreement will see Open Texts solution for people resources management sold as SAP Worker File Management application by Open Text and is going to enable corporations to create and complete digital records of all personnel-related documents natively included with the SAP ERP Human Capital Management platform. The result's that all paper and electronic documents can be pulled from digital files in relation to workers cutting the quantity of time required to administer human resources related jobs.

Oracle BPM Upgrade Follows Suite Upgrade
Last week Oracle ( reports, site ) revealed a major upgrade to its corporation content management suite. This week it has declared it is upgrading its Business Process Management suite. As part of Oracles Fusion Middleware 11g, the new BPM Suite 11g is alleged to support all sorts of processes with a new process foundation, user-centric design together with new social BPM abilities.
Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g incorporates a local implementation of BPMN 2.0 with new components that include:
* Oracle UCM for document-centric processes
* Unified management and monitoring of business processes
* Role-based modeling and design using BPM studio
* Process Composer: for internet-based process modeling and deployment.
* Business visibility, process standing and operational reporting thru business reporting

The new social capabilities also enable reinforced partnership by including wikis and blogs as well as customised team spaces through all phases of the business lifecycle.