Speedlinks for Aug 12 2007: Enterprise Records Management

Links for Records Management white papers , RFPs and articles:

1. White Paper from NASCIO ( represents state chief information officers and information technology executives and managers from states of US) Electronic Records Management and Digital Preservation: Protecting the Knowledge Assets of the State Government Enterprise:
PART I: Background, Principles and Action for State CIOs
PART II: Economic, Legal, and Organizational Issues

2. Email Archiving RFP for State of Maine
http://ent01.state.me.us/EmailSolutionRFP/Download.asp

Is FAST a candidate for acquisition?

Forrester Research’s 2006 Leader in Enterprise Search Platforms- FAST has come out with a Q2 result below forecasts on lower sales and higher bad debt. The analysts comment in Forbes is here. Is it a candidate for take over by large content management vendors like EMC ? EMC Documentum has been using FAST as the embedded search tool and does not have a search engine as part of its product portfolio.

In the mean time , it is interesting to see vendors providing solution to exit a FAST installation for customers concerned over its future uncertainty.

FAST has added few more search and business intelligence technology modules keeping in line with industry trend of personalization, recommendation and BI integration. They are:

• Agent Arts - personalization and recommendation engine technology
• bWise - Specialist in delivery of business intelligence services and software

Let’s FAST forward to Q3 to see where we stand !!!