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Have a look at a great presentation on Master Data Management. This should also govern ECM best practices. Video here: http://vimeo.com/37608008
XeniT integrates Alfresco with cator storage: nice intro video with visualisation of the inner working for Castor Object Storage: http://youtu.be/cDydUxaSgyE.
It is worthwhile to have a look at Bluespice. It's an enterprise Mediawiki distribution. If you wanted mediawiki, but you needed access control (and other enterprise and usability features), you should check this out.
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office is essentially a plugin for Windows versions of the productivity suit (2003, 2007, 2010).
The plugin syncs your work through Google's cloud, so everyone can contribute to the same version of a file at the same time.
XeniT made a prototype for such functionality in 2008 for an IWT market study. Vision was right, Google has a bit more funding :-).
See the whole presentation in this video:
Even scanning goes open source these days. Have a look at Ephesoft. It uses JBPM for scan to ECM workflow, and OCR from Google, but you can replace this with e.g. Abbysoft finereader. There is a community edition, and there are supported editions. And, with Move2Alf, we can easily integrate this into Alfresco.
One of the greatest challenges for mobile applications is the synchronicity of data. An interesting solution to the problem is to use the NoSQL database CouchDB. CouchDB, a document-oriented database, is an alternative to SQL databases. With CouchDB you can use cloud functions on mobile devices, work offline with a locally deployed application on a local data storage, and share data with the rest of the cloud when going online again.
Read more at ibm developerworks.
EMC has announced the release of 'DITA XProc Pipelines' as a library of XProc pipelines for processing OASIS DITA topics and maps to XHTML and PDF.
OpenOffice.org Developers Create The Document Foundation
Supporting the Semantic Linked Data Web: Raptor RDF Syntax Library V2 Dave Beckett, Software Announcement. "Today I released the first beta version of Raptor 2 (Raptor RDF Syntax Library). This is the culmination of about 9 months work refactoring the Raptor 1 codebase...
I know that Raptor 2 is not going to place Raptor 1 for applications for some time, so this is a separately installed library with a new location for the header file and a new shared library base...