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Systems Documentation, Inc. company history timeline

1951

The above television patent is from 1951.

1973

Lotus Notes began its life in 1973 as Plato Notes, developed by the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) at the University of Illinois in 1973.

1974

Compulink Management Center was founded in the US in 1974.

1976

Micro Focus was founded in the UK in 1976.

1982

FileNet was founded in 1982 by Ted Smith, formerly of Basic 4.

1983

GMB (named after the original founders, Gillett, Frank McKenna, and Bachmann) was formed in Australia in 1983.

1984

The Norwegian government developed model requirements for EDRM systems in 1984, the first organisation globally to do so.

1985

Tower Software was founded by Brand Hoff in Canberra in 1985 as a software development company.

1986

Autonomy was founded by Michael Lynch, David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt in Cambridge, UK in 1986 ‘as a spin-off from Cambridge Neurodynamics, a firm specializing in computer-based finger print recognition’.

1987

Compulink Management Center was founded in the US in 1974. It created Laserfiche, the first DOS-based document imaging system, in 1987.

1989

Ymijs was founded in the UK in 1989.

1990

According to this Wikipedia article, Documentum was founded in June 1990 by Howard Shao and John Newton who had previously worked at Ingres (a relational database vendor). They sought to solve the problem of unstructured information.

1992

Optika Imaging Systems (Colorado, US) sought a trademark for a product called ImageFiler in September 1992.

1993

Meridio was developed in 1993 by Kainos (a Northern Ireland company and joint venture between Fujitsu and The Queens University in Belfast) as an electronic document and records management (EDRM) system based on Microsoft products.

1995

The WfMC’s Workflow Reference Model was published first in 1995 and still forms the basis of most BPM and workflow software systems in use today. (Source: Undated Gutenberg article)

1996

In February 1996 Australia issued the world’s first national records management standard, AS4390 ‘Records Management – General‘. The standard provided guidance for the implementation of records management strategies, procedures and practices.

Alpharel changed its name to Altris Software (US) in October 1996, according to this Telecompaper article published the same month.

By December 1996 it had 20 million users.

In 1996, the University of Pittsburgh published the ‘Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping Project’, led by David Bearman.

OpenText Corporation was founded in 1991 from OpenText Systems. It released Livelink in 1996.

1998

In 1998, FileNet released its Panagon suite of products.

1999

The GAO report stated that ‘ERM information systems that were in place before the approval of this standard must comply with the standard by November 1999’.

PC DOCS (acquired by Hummingbird in early 1999)

2000

Auto-trol Technology (Denver, CO): CENTRA 2000, document management, workflow, PDM, change management and messaging.

2001

Rob was one of the co-founders of Altris), developed document management systems, including (according to this South African ITWeb post of 26 October 2001), eB, a ‘configuration management’ application.

Information Technology Decisions published a paper on DOD 5015.2 certified products in November 2001 (original source/location has been lost). It noted that there were two types of products:

The following is a list of ‘EDM systems with records management’ functionality available by early 2001:

2002

Optika eMedia was rebranded to Optika Acorde in 2002, according to this website ‘The Case for 11g‘.

The term ‘Enterprise Content Management’ (ECM) began to appear more frequently by 2002.

2003

EMC acquired Documentum in 2003. (Source: EMC offers $1.7 billion in stock for Documentum, October 2003))

The following is a list of ‘key vendors in the (Integrated Document Management) IDM Market Space’ in October 2003.

2006

The OpenDocument (ODF) standard was published as ISO/IEC 26300 in 2006.

In 2006, Google launched Google Apps for Your Domain, a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products.

2007

Forrester released a report into electronic records management vendors in early 2007.

2008

In 2008, the International Standards Organisation, under ISO/TC171/SC2 ‘Document management applications’ proposed a framework for the integration of EDM and ERM systems.

2010

MoReq was completely revised and published as MoReq2010 in 2010.

‘Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a software product with a range of uses, including website development, content management and collaboration.

2011

The Object Management Group (OMG) released its Records Management Standard (RMS) in September 2011.

2016

In May 2016, OpenText acquired HP TeamSite, HP MediaBin, HP Qfiniti, HP Explore, HP Aurasma, and HP Optimost from HP Inc.

2021

The following is a list of dedicated vendors that offered EDRMS solutions (and more in most cases) by early 2021.

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