Colligo Networks adds email and document management products aimed at facilitating deployment and use of SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management applications.
Email and document management solution provider for Microsoft SharePoint users Colligo Networks has announced new integrated products for SMBs.
Aimed at easing deployment and increasing user adoption of SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) applications, the Colligo for SharePoint line now encompasses a comprehensive suite of eight email and document management applications. The solution is available now and be centrally deployed and managed for both on-premise and cloud-based SharePoint installations.
ECM is a rapidly growing application for SharePoint. According to Microsoft, “ECM systems rely on one key dependency more than technology, feature set, or amount of information managed.”
IT departments often struggle to achieve high user adoption in ECM deployments due to a number of factors, including:
- Consumerization of IT — Easy access to SharePoint on mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones.
- Growth of Cloud Computing — Hybrid systems, consisting of a mix of on-premise and cloud-based SharePoint (Microsoft Office 365), are becoming more commonplace, leading to a scattering of sites that can be confusing to end users.
- Need to Manage Email — Email is a growing proportion of the content that needs to be managed, and it can be difficult for end users to file, tag and search for email in SharePoint out-of-the-box.
Colligo’s new products are designed to solve these user adoption issues, enhance productivity, and achieve ECM success by simplifying and extending the email and document management capabilities of SharePoint 2010 on-premise, and of Microsoft Office 365 in the cloud. New products include:
- Colligo Email Manager — A scalable email management solution for Windows PCs and laptops, with integration between SharePoint and Microsoft Outlook, including federated search.
- Colligo Briefcase — Application for securely browsing, viewing, and storing SharePoint content on Apple iPads, providing a way for organizations to easily support a rapidly growing segment that includes employee-owned devices.
- Colligo Administrator — Centralized configuration and management that integrates all of Colligo’s desktop and mobile applications through a single server-side console, eliminating the need for end users to configure access to SharePoint.
The new products extend the functionality of the existing Colligo Contributor suite, which, in addition to extensive support for SharePoint access online and offline on Windows PCs and laptops, enables users to file emails to SharePoint on any mobile device (smartphone or tablet) connected to Microsoft Exchange.
Colligo Contributor supports both on-premise SharePoint (2003/07/10) and Microsoft Office 365.
Colligo Email Manager 5.0 and Colligo Administrator 1.0 are available now. Colligo Briefcase is currently in beta, with commercial release in November 2011. A free edition of Colligo Briefcase for personal use will also be available from the Apple App Store.
