IBM USA Software Announcement July 24, 2012

EntropySoft Content Hub V5.2 for IBM Enterprise Content Management provides content integration and synchronization to popular content repositories

At a glance

EntropySoft Content Hub V5.2 for IBM® Enterprise Content Management is a third-party product from EntropySoft that provides content integration and synchronization to popular content repositories.

Overview

It is common for organizations to have more than one content management system in place. With EntropySoft Content Hub V5.2 for IBM Enterprise Content Management, you can synchronize or migrate content into a master content repository.

EntropySoft Content Hub V5.2 for IBM Enterprise Content Management:

- Connects applications to content repositories providing information exchange

- Supports over 40 connectors to the most popular content repositories enabling IBM Enterprise Content Manager customers to synchronize, cross index, migrate, or access content stored in multiple repositories

- Delivers robust support for accessing and synchronizing unstructured data between an IBM Enterprise Content Manager master content repository and other content repositories such as Microsoft™ SharePoint

Description

EntropySoft Content Hub V5.2 for IBM Enterprise Content Management, built on more than 40 content connectors, is a central point of access to all company documents whether they are onsite or in the cloud. These content connectors include many of the IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions as well as Alfresco, Box.net, EMC Documentum, ENOVIA MatrixOne, File Systems NTLM, FTP connector, HP Trim Context, Interwoven TeamSite, Iron Mountain Digital Safe, JCR, IBM Connections, IBM Lotus® QuickPlace® , and IBM Lotus Quickr® , Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Open Text Vignette, Oracle Stellent Universal CM, SAP KM, Symantec Enterprise Vault, WebDAV server, and Xerox Docushare.

Automation Content Hub provides process automation, which allows you to synchronize, cross index, migrate, or just access content between multiple repositories whether they are onsite or in the cloud.

EntropySoft Content Hub Enterprise for IBM FileNet® Content Manager:

Can be deployed in application servers such as IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic Server. In a matter of hours, you can be ready to synchronize silos, integrate SharePoint with current ECM or legacy ECM applications, as well as leverage the newer cloud-based environments.

Four primary components:

EntropySoft Content Hub V5.2 for IBM Enterprise Content Management allows users and administrators to configure the process automation to synchronize, cross index, migrate, or just search and access content between multiple repositories.

EntropySoft Content Hub Webtop Enterprise for IBM Content Manager allows users and administrators to search, access, and update content from any connected repository via a central user interface.

EntropySoft Content Hub SharePoint Web parts for IBM Content Manager allows users and administrators to search access and update content from any connected repository via a central user interface running as a SharePoint Web parts.

EntropySoft Content Hub ETL Studio is a designer studio based on Eclipse and is simple to use as well as powerful with a vast set of features designed to extract, transfer, and load documents. You can design, debug, and manage a variety of jobs with a palette of more than 100 predefined tasks.

EntropySoft Content Hub V5.2 for IBM Enterprise Content Management provides the connectors for any of the supported repositories. These connectors are sold as a single unit or in packs of 5, 10, 20, or complete sets. You will need at least two connectors but can combine packs to match the number of systems you wish to connect.

Product positioning

EntropySoft Content Hub V5.2 for IBM Enterprise Content Management extends the capabilities found in IBM Content Integrator. Its primary purpose is to help connect multiple content repositories particularly Microsoft SharePoint in order to synchronize content with a IBM master content repository.

Search and Act in SharePoint

The Business Challenge

Some departments use SharePoint as their preferred workgroup interface. While SharePoint has its own content management features, it’s often necessary for departmental users to access and use documents stored and managed in other enterprise content repositories. This poses two challenges for users: they need to find and work directly with the documents housed outside of SharePoint. Without the proper tools, users need to leave SharePoint and use proprietary ECM interfaces to perform searches and editing actions. This is a slow and clumsy process that becomes even harder as more external ECM systems are added.

The EntropySoft Solution

EntropySoft’s FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST ESP Connectors allow documents from external content repositories to be included within their indexes. This means users can securely search and find documents from these external ECM systems directly from the native search bar in SharePoint. When coupled with the EntropySoft Content Hub SharePoint Edition™, users can work with and act on ECM system content as if it was stored within SharePoint. They never have to leave SharePoint to act on external documents; this means users are able to check-out, edit, and check-in documents directly from and back to the ECM system, so that external content is never duplicated. Users can access document versions and metadata, and with the appropriate permissions, they can also edit meta data or delete versions. From EntropySoft View, users experience tight integration with Microsoft Office applications and can directly edit files in the ECM system without saving local copies.

Results

When using the EntropySoft search module for FAST and SharePoint Search Server, integrating your organization's ECM systems with the SharePoint portal is straightforward. Users easily find the enterprise data they need, and can work directly in Microsoft Office, as if the data was stored within the SharePoint portal natively.

EntropySoft SharePoint Integration

SharePoint has emerged as the de facto tool for workgroup collaboration in many organizations today. It has become a favorite because of its built-in document management capabilities, support for approval processes, and tight integration with Microsoft Office desktop tools. Entire departments have come to depend on SharePoint to carry out day-to-day business processes. But the more you come to rely on SharePoint, the more that you wish all of the critical business applications in your organization were integrated into your SharePoint processes. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could find all the documents you needed from within SharePoint — no matter where they are stored? Wouldn’t it be great if line-of-business (LoB) applications in other departments could hand off their work directly to you in your SharePoint system? Imagine if you could automatically publish content to the cloud for your mobile users in the field. What if you could keep the compliance team happy by preserving key documents automatically?

EntropySoft Content Hub SharePoint Edition™ can be a valuable tool to help you meet all of these challenges quickly and cost-effectively.

Making Single-Point-of-Access a Reality

Users who spend their time in SharePoint come to appreciate the ease with which they can quickly execute a search and find the content that they need without leaving the SharePoint user interface. With a standard SharePoint deployment, the search index only contains documents stored natively within a SharePoint document library. But what about documents stored in other departmental ECM systems such as Documentum, FileNet, or LiveLink?

Indexed Search in SharePoint

EntropySoft Content Hub™ SharePoint Edition delivers out-of-the- box integration with the SharePoint search index and more than 40 pre-built connectors to ECM, email, collaboration, and cloud-based systems. With this proven integration, SharePoint administrators can now provide their users with the ability to perform searches inside of SharePoint and return relevant results no matter where the documents are stored. With this search integration users can:

• Search for external documents using the familiar SharePoint search capability

• View abstracts and key document properties natively in the result set

• Click on search results and view the document contents in their native tool

Big productivity gains are obtained from this level of search integration since users can reference documents quickly without ever leaving SharePoint. But what if they need to act on external documents?

Going Beyond Simple Search—Search & Act in SharePoint

If your business processes require users to sign out of SharePoint and sign in other ECM tools to act on external documents, then EntropySoft’s SharePoint Web Parts provide a powerful tool to increase productivity by allowing full access to external documents from within SharePoint. Web Parts are deployed by the administrator and become an integral component of the SharePoint portal for end users. Web Parts look and feel just like native SharePoint pages and leverage EntropySoft Content Connectors™ for bi-directional access to external systems. Now, users can view full properties and checkout and edit external documents while staying in SharePoint. Tight integration between the Web Parts and MS Office allow users to launch directly into MS Word and other Office tools to edit the document in-place without having to save temporary copies.

With this capability, users can seamlessly act on their search results for convenience and gain in productivity by staying within SharePoint.

Content Process Automation For Increased Agility and Compliance

In addition to direct ‘Search & Act’ integration in the SharePoint portal, many organizations will choose another approach to connect their business processes by replicating content across silos. For organizations with complex business processes in LoB applications built on top of an ECM system, it is critical to preserve the integrity of the processes, so it may not make sense to give other departments direct access to these systems. In this case, the ability to replicate only a subset of content when business processes reach decision points or completion is the better solution.

Building in-house integrations between content silos and SharePoint is expensive and time consuming. This is a lot of proprietary system API’s to learn just to access the data. And maintaining a homegrown solution costs even more in time and effort to adapt and change as business processes morph.

EntropySoft Content Hub for SharePoint contains a powerful content process engine that connects SharePoint to over 40 ECM systems using pre-built connectors. The content process engine is able to move hundreds of thousands of documents per day between systems leveraging pre-built content process templates that contain the required business logic.

SharePoint administrators can quickly deploy and configure these pre-built content process templates to connect systems behind the scene and empower SharePoint users.

EntropySoft’s prebuilt and configurable process templates can:

• Migrate content from legacy LoB applications to SharePoint

• Bi-directionality synchronize selected content between SharePoint and ECM systems

• Publish content to cloud-based ECM systems like Office365 and Box for mobile access

• Archive important content from SharePoint to an external ECM system for compliance

Content Hub SharePoint Edition provides enormous benefit for organizations that use SharePoint for workgroup collaboration, by reducing the time, complexity and cost of providing a single point of access, and easily integrating SharePoint with LoB applications and the cloud.

Cloud ECM Integration for Cloud-Based Applications

As more companies become interested in cloud-based solutions, software application vendors have answered the call by providing easy to use and highly scalable enterprise applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), sales force automation (SFA), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other compelling applications in the cloud. These cloud apps help enterprises achieve savings in software license, hardware purchasing, and IT administration. But the Achilles heel of cloud-based applications is integration with existing business processes to deliver a complete solution. Enterprise application customers have likely invested heavily in on-premises ECM and collaboration systems to manage documents, support collaboration between departments, and automate business processes. So how can an enterprise customer maximize its investment in on-premises and cloud-based ECM and integrate the cloud-based application with other line of business functions?

The key to delivering this comprehensive integration for immediate business value is to connect directly with the core systems with critical day-to-day business processes and create a single-point-of-access to all the silos of an organization through the cloud.

Embedding EntropySoft Content Connectors™ in cloud-based applications makes it possible for enterprise application customers to work with all documents stored behind their firewall within the context of the cloud-based application. Users can find, view, update, create, delete documents and metadata from the application as if they were stored in the cloud. EntropySoft delivers the ability to:

• Unify scattered content through cloud-based applications as a single bi-directional access point for true content interoperability and dynamic information management

• Connect securely to on-premises ECM systems from the cloud

• Deliver connectivity that is easy to deploy, manage, and scale in a multi-tenant cloud environment

How does EntropySoft make this possible?

• Pre-built connectors that expose a single bidirectional API for 40+ ECM systems including SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, OpenText, and leading cloud-based ECM such as Box and Office365

• Integrate once, in a matter of weeks, and deploy any or all of the connectors

• Comprehensive API to allow any software vendor to integrate documents in the context of its application, creating a seamless and more productive user experience

• Immediate business process integration with existing ECM-based processes

• Users connect to on-premises ECM systems as themselves, so that it is always known who is accessing ECM content and owning the documents uploaded through the cloud

• ECM system administrators are satisfied since all access from the cloud is done according to policies established in the on-premises ECM system

EntropySoft’s 40 pre-built content connectors allow enterprise software application vendors to integrate cloud-based applications with cloud-based ECM and on-premises ECM systems to unlock their customer’s content silos and deliver effective business process integration.

Box ECM Cloud Connect — Powered by EntropySoft

Box ECM Cloud Connect™ is powerful content integration software that provides purpose-built connectivity between Box, SharePoint, and 40+ enterprise content management (ECM)systems. It connects Box with your content silos behind the firewall and leverages pre-built content process templates that immediately provide business value by automatically synchronizing systems. Box ECM Cloud Connect software deploys easily and quickly as a virtual appliance and comes with easy to manage services.

Highlights

• SharePoint users benefit from transparent connection to Box while working in the SharePoint environment

• Immediate value with bi-directional connectors for Box, SharePoint, and 40+ ECM Systems

• Box ECM Cloud Connect software deploys easily and quickly as a virtual appliance with easy to manage services

Business Benefits

• Enable content sharing and collaboration beyond the firewallwith partners, suppliers, and customers

• Enable content to be accessed and updated on mobile devices

• Provide two-way synch so external updates are reflected on internal repositories

Features & Benefits

Purpose-Built Connectivity

• 40+ Connectors to normalize more applications: connecting all your unstructured content to Box is easy with 40+ bi-directional connectors that redefine interoperability and revolutionize information access

• Gain access to critical content information: access to all of the critical content, metadata, and access permissions

• Ensure security integrity: ECM system security is maintained because Box connects using standard API’s that never bypass underlying security mechanisms

Full Integration with SharePoint

• Get Mobilized: access from any device—iPad, iPhone, and more. Mobile users enjoy all the benefits that Box provides: access without VPN’s from Smart Phones, and tablets—with content from SharePoint

• Any new doc is published to the cloud—automatically. New documents added to SharePoint are automatically published to Box with no extra steps

• Integrate Box with existing SharePoint workflow: integrate with existing SharePoint approval workflows, automatically publish documents to Box once approved

• Integrate your Virtual Deal room with SharePoint: create an integrated Virtual Deal Room in Box when you connect your on-premises SharePoint system using the pre-built process template

• Securely connect employees, customers and business partners: business users can share documents outside of the firewall with business partners and customers, seamlessly integrating with existing SharePoint business processes hidden behind the firewall

• Improved drafting and collaboration management: new drafts and doc redlines are securely and automatically synchronized between SharePoint and Box

Easy to Deploy and Manage

• No need for complex software, just download and go; simply download and deploy the virtual appliance to get started

• Quick configuration with built-in web interface for connectivity to Box, SharePoint, Documentum, and 40+ ECM systems

• Point and click content process templates: deploy, start, monitor, and stop with a simple point and click

• Enterprise authentication integration: integrate quickly with systems like Active Directory using prebuilt interfaces

• Automatic upgrades with virtual appliance: you are always running the most recent version of connectors and the content process framework

• At-a-glance Dashboard that summarizes the flow of content to and from Box

B2B Document Exchange with Box

The Business Challenge

Businesses have built elaborate defenses around internal IT assets to defend against security threats. Firewalls are a necessity, but they come with restrictive consequences. How do you work with suppliers like marketing agencies? How do you work with customers and partners on proposals and contracts? How do your execs work with the Board? Exchanging documents on paper is slow, clumsy, and expensive. Emailing documents is faster, but it strains email storage capacity, exposes your company to security risks, and is hard to manage. To address these issues, more companies are adopting Business-to- Business (B2B) Document Exchanges with cloud vendors to solve this fundamental access problem by creating a site outside of their corporate firewall where documents can be securely exchanged with partners under controlled conditions.

Part of the answer lies with cloud-based B2B document exchanges or virtual data rooms that are ideally suited to solving the direct access problem when sharing sensitive documents with business partners. They provide a secure location where the most current contracts, quotes, proposals, or engineering specifications can be shared. These solutions provide content management functionality to manage document versions and reviewer comments, while they limit access to approved parties. You and your partners can safely upload and download individual documents. Instead of attaching documents, links to new revisions of documents can be emailed securely without risk or storage bloat. This solves the access problem, but not the problem of integrating with existing business processes.

On-premise ECM and collaboration systems like Documentum and SharePoint have been widely adopted by organizations to manage critical documents and govern internal processes. Many companies have invested in workflow and approval processes built onto on-premises ECM systems to automate and govern how business operates on a daily basis. So how do you connect your internal systems to the cloud to further maximize your investments?

The EntropySoft Solution

Box ECM Cloud Connect™, a Box offering that is powered by EntropySoft Content Hub™, lets you link the on-premises content solutions in your business to the Box cloud. For businesses with traditional content platforms, like SharePoint or Documentum, the Box ECM Cloud Connect offering makes it easy to synchronize or transfer data to and from Box. This means your investment in on-premises ECM systems is protected and your internal processes can be connected to the cloud transparently and quickly.

Outcomes

Box ECM Cloud Connect’s prebuilt content process template, Sync to Box, automatically pushes new and revised documents from your on-premises ECM system to Box. New and revised documents in Box are automatically pushed back to your on-premises ECM system. Manual uploads and insecure emails are avoided, increasing the effectiveness of collaboration with partners. Now there is no need to disrupt existing business processes to leverage the power of Box as a B2B document exchange.

EntropySoft Exchange and SharePoint Connectors Now Compatible with Microsoft Office 365 Cloud-Offering

EntropySoft’s Cloud-Friendly Connectors Enable Exchange and SharePoint Users To Simplify Information Exchange To and From the Cloud

EntropySoft, the content integration company, announced that its best selling Exchange and SharePoint connectors are now compatible with Office 365, the Microsoft cloud offering. Software vendors, IT services companies and organizations alike can use the exact same EntropySoft Connectors to connect to either hosted or cloud versions of Exchange and SharePoint.

EntropySoft Connectors integrate on-site applications with Office 365 to easily move data to and from the cloud for greater information access, managed content processes and archiving. When used in conjunction with Content Hub Professional or Enterprise Editions, any transfer of content to and from Office 365 is possible.

“Companies are looking to the cloud to reduce their information management complexity as well as reduce costs. Increasingly, Microsoft customers are moving to Office 365 to achieve these goals,” said Nicolas Maquaire, CEO of EntropySoft. “EntropySoft’s Microsoft Connectors meet the content integration needs of companies using either the hosted or cloud versions of Exchange and SharePoint. And we are pleased to add them to our other SharePoint and Office-oriented products – all designed to help companies make the most of their SharePoint deployment.”

The EntropySoft Exchange Connector connects to mailboxes and public folders, has read/write capacity and supports all the item types exposed by Exchange web services including calendar, contacts, distribution lists, messages, posts, and tasks.
The “repository discovery” feature does dynamic mailbox discovery, allowing a single connector configuration for all mailboxes saving huge amounts of time and reducing complexity. The EntropySoft SharePoint Connector supports all SharePoint lists including document libraries, calendar, tasks, issues, discussion boards, contacts, and more, all SharePoint objects, and offers a read/write feature. Connecting to a SharePoint site gives you access to all site content, and sub-site content. The connector also has a “repository discovery” feature providing automatic access to all site collections in a farm.
Both connectors are designed to be easily integrated into third-party applications and expose the same API as all of EntropySoft’s more than 40 other connectors.

These two new cloud connectors further enhance EntropySoft’s support of Microsoft environments, improving SharePoint user’s ability to search and act on all of a company’s content. Recently, EntropySoft announced Content Hub 5.2 for increased interoperability across the enterprise with new Microsoft Office desktop integration and SharePoint portal web parts to enhance the end-user experience. Enabling access to more than 40 content management systems through the web parts, SharePoint users can access and work with the connected content management systems to create, modify or delete documents, change permissions and metadata in the 40+ supported systems (EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, Oracle UCM, among others). All this is done through a normalized SharePoint experience.

EntropySoft, the Content Integration Company, and eDiscovery Leader ZyLAB Announce OEM Agreement

EntropySoft’s ECM Connectors Increase ZyLAB’s Access to Vast Amounts of Unstructured Data within eDiscovery Customer Organizations

San Francisco and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: January 5, 2012 – EntropySoft, the content integration company, today announced a technology agreement with global eDiscovery leader, ZyLAB, in which they will integrate EntropySoft Connectors into their eDiscovery and information management solutions. This partnership expands ZyLAB’s out-of-the-box access to the vast amounts of unstructured data within organizations, an ability that is crucial in eDiscovery.

“EntropySoft’s offering of more than 40 connectors enhances ZyLAB’s own portfolio and improves the overall capabilities of our eDiscovery solutions,” said Pieter Varkevisser, CEO of ZyLAB. “Partnering with the leader in enterprise content integration also insures that ZyLAB will be able to tap into the ever-increasing number of content silos in the future.”

ZyLAB will integrate a portfolio of more than 40 EntropySoft Connectors for all major enterprise content management systems into their eDiscovery solutions. EntropySoft’s portfolio of connectors has been fully tested and proven in major business-critical deployment projects where immediate and reliable access to enterprise application repositories is required.

“We are thrilled to partner with globally recognized eDiscovery industry leader ZyLAB,” said Nicolas Maquaire, CEO and co-founder of EntropySoft. “In the eDiscovery market, it is vital to collect and act on documents from potentially every single content silo in an organization. When a company like ZyLAB relies on EntropySoft’s intensive read/write capacity for optimal connectivity, it reinforces our dedication as specialists to provide the highest quality connectivity available.”

EntropySoft Content Hub 5.2 Delivers Content Management Improvements Across the Organization

EntropySoftʼs New Release Includes Enhanced SharePoint Portal Integration with WebParts, CMIS And WebDAV Support, Microsoft Office Integration and More.

EntropySoft, the content integration company,today announced the availability of Content Hub™ 5.2 at IBM Information On Demand.
The new product release includes a number of new features to benefit content producers, users and ECM system managers and developers across the organization.

Out-of-the-box features for both the Professional and Enterprise Editions include SharePoint portal integration with web parts, Microsoft Office integration, CMIS and WebDAV support, clustering/failover, and UI and performance improvements. Built on
more than 40 EntropySoft Content Connectors™, Content Hub delivers centralized access to all document repositories whether on-site or in the cloud. It federates all content silos into one virtual repository shared by all applications so users can work and
search seamlessly. Content Hub 5.2 will be available for general release in November 2011.

“Content Hub 5.2 increases interoperability across the enterprise. New desktop integration and SharePoint portal web parts greatly enhance the end-user experience,” said Nicolas Maquaire, CEO and co-founder of EntropySoft. “Developers and IT will benefit by our increased support for CMIS, new process automation alerting capability, and numerous architectural and performance improvements.”

Content Hub Web Parts Connect SharePoint to 40+ ECM Systems
Content Hub brings content federation to Microsoft SharePoint by enabling access to more than 40 content management systems through EntropySoftʼs new web parts.

SharePoint users can access and work with the connected content management systems to create, modify or delete documents, change permissions and metadata in the 40+ supported systems (EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, Oracle UCM, among others).

All this is done through a normalized SharePoint experience.
(more)Advanced federated search features are now available to SharePoint Enterprise Search to easily find documents in all the Content Hub connected repositories. SharePoint Enterprise Search can execute centralized search against all connected applications.
Since these applications have their own search engines, Content Hub can also execute a distributed search and send the results back to SharePoint.

Additionally, Content Hub manages the document processes needed to automate document transfers with other content management systems. For example Content Hub can manage archiving, records management and content distribution processes.

“We are pleased to turbocharge Microsoft SharePoint document management features with Content Hub,” said Raphael Jean, CTO and co-founder of EntropySoft. “Content federation, unified search and automated document processes are vital components required to make the most of any SharePoint deployment.”

WebDAV Protocol Support Content Hubʼs WebDAV protocol offers all desktop applications universal access to all documents stored in connected repositories. This is particularly useful for editing
documents. Users simply navigate in Windows Explorer to browse the connected repositories.

Support for CMIS AtomPub EntropySoft broadens it CMIS support to include AtomPub bindings in addition to the SOAP support, furthering its commitment to the standard. Many major industry players have adopted the CMIS standard based on its capabilities to ease general access to content repositories, and improve interoperability. Content Hub is the only available platform to deliver CMIS support to more than 40 applications.

Also New In Content Hub 5.2:
• Integration with Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010, easing the integration of ECM systems with Office.
• A new email alerting capability for synchronization reports.
• Support for application server clustering and load balancing to meet the performance and high availability needs of enterprise deployments.
• Continued UI and performance improvement begun in version 5.0. Using the open source Google Web Toolkit, the updated UI allows universal access to all repositories. Another feature lets power users manage content processes like synchronization and migration while browsing or searching against all connected repositories.
• Content ETL Studio, the process engine included in Content Hub Enterprise Edition, now includes better synchronization support and the ability to automatically detect all instances of Content Hub within an organization for even easier automation process management.

A new version of Content Hub to connect ECM systems together and manage document transfers

The ECM systems may be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Corporations of all sizes can now manage on their own their document transfers. They can safely share documents in cloud repositories and exchange easily documents with partners and customers.

EntropySoft, a specialist of enterprise connectivity and content integration, is releasing the version 5 of its Content Hub. Content Hub connects all ECM systems and manages easily the most advanced document transfers. It enables synchronization of a selection of documents between different ECM systems. The ECM systems may be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Corporations of all sizes can now manage on their own their document transfers. They can safely share documents in cloud repositories and exchange easily documents with partners and customers.

“Content Hub is EntropySoft’s answer to information fragmentation, a universal problem all companies are confronted with. More and more ECM systems are being deployed, increasing information fragmentation and making information access difficult. Content Hub is delivering a single point of access, therefore simplifying and accelerating information access” said Nicolas Maquaire, EntropySoft CEO. ”Content Hub is also enabling simple content transfer between repositories. In a matter of minutes, it is even possible to synchronize parts of distinct ECM systems. With synchronization, document sharing in real-time is facilitated by having the right document at the right place. Companies can offer their knowledge silos to a larger audience or easily share documents with partners and customers”.

The new version of Content Hub further improves the user experience. The completely redesigned user interface facilitates the way users connect the repositories and improves document transfer monitoring.
EntropySoft added for example a repository discovery feature. This allows Content Hub to automatically connect to all repositories on a server or server farm. This feature is currently available for Microsoft SharePoint, Lotus Quicker, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and IBM P8.
The document transfer monitoring is also improved. Users can now follow metrics in real-time.
Out-of-the-box document synchronization and document migration are available. In a few clicks, an end-user can activate synchronization of two folders from distinct applications.
Content Hub is also available as a VMware virtual machine that can be very quickly connected to the different applications. In little time, an administrator can start migrating and sharing content between repositories deployed on-premises, at a partner location or in the cloud.
The Content Hub virtual machine is available on a fixed monthly subscription basis that allows you to start immediately improving document life-cycle. Content Hub is available for large organizations in perpetual license for installation in their corporate environment.

Content Hub accelerates and simplifies information access while managing the most advanced documents transfers.

EntropySoft Closes $3.5M Funding Round

EntropySoft, the content connection company, announced on Tuesday that it has closed a US$3.5 million funding round.

This first round of financing was led by Alven Capital and will fuel the next stage of EntropySoft's growth in the content connection market. EntropySoft was previously privately owned.
The company, founded in 2005, plans to use the money to further boost its technological expertise, grow its sales team and increase its US presence.

CEO Nicolas Maquaire said: “EntropySoft’s success is based on the quality and reliability of its software products. This is how we succeeded in signing technological agreements with more than 25 major US software vendors over the past two years. We now want to increase the visibility of our products for large organizations and add direct sales to our very successful OEM business model. With this new capital, we are going to reach a new level of expertise and visibility.“

Guillaume Aubin, Managing Partner at Alven Capital explains: « EntropySoft have a strong presence in a fast-growing market, with a technologically superior product offer. EntropySoft has proven that it has the vision and the execution track record to be a leader in their markets. This infusion of capital will position the company for an explosive year."

EntropySoft offers to software vendors and large corporations products to increase content management systems interoperability and manage easily document transfers. Large software companies such as EMC Documentum, Symantec or Endeca already signed OEM agreements to use EntropySoft technology. Saint-Gobain, the world leader in the habitat and construction markets, or Total, one of the biggest energy groups in the world, have selected the innovative EntropySoft products for some of their critical operations.

EntropySoft enables the real-time content synchronization of different content silos, such as SharePoint and IBM FileNet. There are many use cases for this technology inside the corporation itself and also to connect company repositories in the cloud and in-house. Real time content synchronization also changes the face of collaboration, directly between partners or for companies sharing documents in the
cloud.

EntropySoft’s star product is Content Hub. Content Hub centralizes the access to information and automates document transfers between Content Management Systems.

Content Hub is using EntropySoft’s 40 CMS connectors. EntropySoft’s portfolio of connectors is the secret sauce for EntropySoft’s success. The connectors are highly successful thanks to their unequalled features and market-tested robustness. They are the key to Content Hub’s capacity to connect to and work with documents in more than 40 Content Management Systems.

In March, EntropySoft unveiled a major new version of its Content Hub and added new features for synchronization, content transfers and automatic mapping of permissions, users and groups.

By increasing its technological lead, the company expects to continue signing OEM agreements and grow exponentially the number of direct customers in the coming 12
months.

- Financial Advisor: Aelios Finance (Véronique Roth, Pierre Dropsy)
- Legal Advisor for EntropySoft: Nixon Peabody (Douglas Glucroft, Emmanuelle Porte, Sylvie Hamel)
- Legal Advisor for Alven Capital : Gide Loyrette Nouel (Pierre Karpik, Emilie Leygonie)
- Financial Due Diligence Provider: Ernst & Young (Emmanuel Picard, Renaud Regner)
- Strategic Market Due Diligence: Pierre Audoin Consultants (Vincent Gelineau,
Olivier Rafal)

Box Brings ECM to the Cloud

Box Brings ECM to the Cloud

Enterprises Gain Cloud Benefits While Leveraging Existing ECM Investments

Box today launched ECM Cloud Connect to help enterprises leverage their investment in on-premise ECM systems by linking them to Box's cloud content management platform, facilitating broader employee adoption, easy external collaboration, and content access from any mobile device. Powered by EntropySoft, ECM Cloud Connect enables organizations to move content seamlessly and automatically between on-premise solutions and Box's cloud platform. ECM Cloud Connect links Box to more than 40 other systems, including Microsoft SharePoint and EMC Documentum. Additionally, Box announced integration and consulting support from leading firms Armedia, BPA Technologies, ConvergePoint, and ZSL, the latest additions to its expanding partner ecosystem.

"We want to help the world's largest enterprises realize the benefits of cloud-enabled content, and building a seamless connection between their existing infrastructure and the cloud is a crucial first step," said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box. "Mobile access to content and painless external collaboration are critically important for today's enterprises, and with ECM Cloud Connect, Box can fill these gaps - creating an amazing experience for end users, and increasing the value of existing ECM investments with no hardware or software hassle for IT."

Designed by EntropySoft and available as an addition for Box Enterprise customers,ECM Cloud Connect also enables organizations to use an on-premise system to ensure compliance to corporate records management and archiving policies for content stored in Box. With ECM Cloud Connect, existing and future Box customers will benefit from the following capabilities:
• Sync: Synchronize content between Box and a selection of 40 on-premise ECM systems
• Archive: Trigger automatic content archiving from Box to on-premise ECM systems
• Push: Transfer content from on-premise ECM systems to Box, or vice versa

"Enterprises are looking to leverage the cloud strategically to meet business and technology challenges, but don't want to create yet another information silo in the process," said Vijji Suryadevara, CEO, BPA Technologies. "ECM Cloud Connect will allow organizations to take full advantage of Box's cloud content management platform, while adding value to their existing on-premise ECM systems. We're excited to bring this solution to our customers."

More than 60,000 businesses, including 73% of the Fortune 500, currently use Box to access, manage and share content online, as well as from iPads, iPhones, and Android devices. The Box Apps Marketplace features more than 150 integrated partner applications such as Salesforce, Google Apps and NetSuite. Box saw 3.4X enterprise revenue growth in 2010 driven by deals with large organizations like Clear Channel, Dole and Dell, and the company just raised a $48M Series D round to fuel the next stage of its growth in the enterprise.

Capture and save Twitter activities in a corporate digital vault

Thanks to EntropySoft, any organization can now transfer Twitter content in a corporate repository for improved information governance

EntropySoft, the Content Connection Company, made available in its Lab a new connector for Twitter. With this connector, EntropySoft is offering an easy way to archive Twitter content and is therefore improving information governance.

Thanks to this new Twitter connector, corporate tweets can be searched in a hierarchical manner, retrieved and archived. The tweets can be dynamically archived in the corporate archiving system and therefore be indexed for Search, Early Case Assessment or eDiscovery, For example, all tweets of company employees can now be saved and monitored easily, which is vital to control effectively corporate communication.

By using EntropySoft Content Hub, it only takes a matter of minutes to connect Twitter with an Enterprise repository platform and start archiving content.

“Content Hub, with its 40 pre-packaged Enterprise connectors, is the software of choice to integrate with the cloud. ECM Cloud companies like Box.Net are using this to connect their repositories to Enterprise content repositories. Other Cloud companies like social software or CRM companies are using Content Hub to provide an single entry point to company repositories, so as to include document services in their offers. Finally, Content Hub is also used to add features to corporate ECM systems by bridging Cloud services like document translation or digital signature services with corporate ECM systems.” said Nicolas Maquaire, CEO of EntropySoft. “With this new Twitter connector, we are now extending our product offering to micro-blogging and social networks. These popular new forms of online communication carry risks for companies because the content is discoverable, just like e-mail and any other electronically stored information (ESI). EntropySoft now has the technology to add Twitter to corporate retention policies.”

The Twitter connector is able to retrieve the following content and metadata:
• Tweets of a designated Twitter account
• Retweets (of tweets from the account, by the account holder or sent to the account holder)
• Followers of a specific account
• Direct tweets
• Tweets mentioning the account’s name.

Tweets can be retrieved using various search criteria: content, author, recipient, sent date etc…
Search is not limited to the account you are connecting with, but is done on all Twitter content.

Content Hub is also available as a pre-configured virtual environment where all EntropySoft products are already installed. This Virtual Machine is a turn-key solution which allows immediate deployment in a virtualized environment. Thus, any document management system or archiving platform, as well as Twitter, can be easily connected together and the document transfers managed.

Content Hub can handle simple out-of-the-box archiving processes. It can also be deployed in IBM Websphere or other large company infrastructures, so as to manage advanced document processes, Records Management for example.

Additionally, the Twitter connector is designed to be easily integrated in any third-party application and exposes the same API as the 40 other read/write EntropySoft connectors, making content management interoperability a reality.

All major Enterprise Content Management Systems are present in EntropySoft connectors’ portfolio: Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum Content Server, IBM FileNET P8, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Interwoven TeamSite, Alfresco and more. All connectors have been fully tested on large implementations in critical business projects.

EntropySoft products are bridging the gap between the cloud and the enterprise.