Cloud Computing Service Bolsters SharePoint Integration

SpringCM has released an update to its connector for Microsoft SharePoint that allows those applications to be integrated with applications running on top of the SpringCM content management system, which the company makes available as a service.

New features SpringCM has added to the connector include support for single sign-on capabilities, the ability to browse and edit SpringCM documents and metadata from within SharePoint, and the ability for a workflow process in SpringCM to pull documents from SharePoint.

As customers increasingly look to the cloud to host departmental applications that they previously hosted on local servers, cloud computing providers are finding that customers are requiring them to deliver robust interfaces that link back to their existing applications, rather than requiring them to move those applications entirely to the cloud.

Microsoft, meanwhile, is preparing to roll out SharePoint 2010 as both a service and an on-premise offering.