Following meetings with the IBM team at Lotusphere last week, I am pleased to announce that DLI is developing a connector for Lotus Quickr.  This will allow Quickr users to publish content to Docova, to leverage Docova's advanced document management features such as workflow and version control.  

The general session Monday was a bit of a disappointment.  Some good information, but the delivery was less than stellar.  With a few exceptions, the guest speakers seemed to struggle, almost giving the impression that there were issues with the tele prompters.  At one point two IBM'ers were doing a tag team demo, and using horrible puns around Quickr, the Cloud and Sametime. The guy next to me looked over with a pained expression and said...

"please make them stop...please".

Vulcan was announced giving a quick peek at the new versions of Notes that are in the works. That being said, Lotusphere of late never seems to have recaptured the energy of the 1990's, for those of us who remember that time.

A question that kept coming up is how the Quickr Next announcements will impact DLI and Docova.  In fact,  althought they will enhance the product, IBM confirmed that Quickr will never become a full blown document mgt solution.  I was amused to hear applause for the light box feature, which eliminates the complete screen refreshes when doing things like setting up new folders.  

We are working with IBM at this time to build a connector to Quickr, so that should help a lot as customers that have Quickr and wish to use it for collaboration and leverage Docova for workflow and more advanced features.

IBM announced a Quickr connector for Alfresco, an open source EDMS.  Still trying to determine where Alfresco fits in the mix.  It could be that IBM would rather have customers not happy with the IBM alternatives switch to Alfresco vs Microsoft. Having them move to Docova and staying on Domino to me is a much better alternative.

We showed our Blackberry interface for Docova.  This allows you to query the Docova libraries, locate documents, and view them on your Blackberry. Very cool!!

With the introduction of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and Windows 7, many COM control interfaces (including ones inside Microsoft’s own applications) had issues with the new web browser and OS. The DLI.Uploader and DLI.Uploader Pro have interfaces that were affected by these issues.  The DLI.Uploader and DLI.Uploader Pro have been updated to manage these anomalies.

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DLI.tools will again showcase Docova Document Manager, the DLI.Uploader and thingFactory at Lotusphere.

Come by Booth #337 to experience the new functionality contained in these products.

New version released.  Incremental upgrade.  Features include the ability to disable the folder view cloud tag.  This version includes the Office 2000-2007, Terminal Server support in the auto install.  This allows administrators to quickly upgrade users.   Docova customers can find more info in the release notes on the Docova Support Site.

Definitely been a challenging year.  Many companies that had projects scheduled and budgets approved made the decision to hold off this year. Still, Docova found its way into several companies around the word.  Some that come to mind are an Aerospace company in Northern Ireland,  a high performance tire manufacturer in the Netherlands,  a utility and a food services company in Ontario, an insurance company, packaging company, food services company...to name a few.  The benefit of going global is that the market is enormous, and even a  recession on the scale of what we have been living with spawns opportunity as companies try to trim costs and improve efficiencies.

The last quarter of 2009 has been busy. We released our Outlook connector, allowing you to run Outlook/Exchange and Terminal server.   We released the network scan module, allowing you to interface with network scanners, auto process documents and communicate with Docova from from a variety of sources including smartphones.   Docova 2.6.2 has gone through final testing and will be ready to download this week. It incorporates many of the suggestions our customers have provided over the past year.  

Lots of interesting things coming for 2010. We are working on a version of Docova that will allow you to choose the backend data store.  That provides options for companies not running Domino, and for those that are changing.  We have a Blackberry interface that should be out in the first quarter.  

If you are attending Lotusphere 2010,  come over to booth 337.

We are entering 2010 with the biggest pipeline we have every had. 2009 was good.  2010 is going to be awesome.  

I can hardly wait!