Sharing files with friends and co-workers has had a long history of evolution. In the early days (1980s) , it was done via a telephone line and a modem, hard copy files such as floppy disks, and then moved on to File Transfer Protocol (FTP) from a central server.
In the 1990s, the invention of the World Wide Web gave rise to web protocols for sharing, including those used IRC chat rooms, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) (used for Usenet), email attachments, AOL instant messenger and other IM file transfer, and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems such as Napster.
In the 2000s, Decentralized file sharing network Gnutella & Gnutella P2P networks were invented, plus BitTorrent, which parcels files into bits for anonymous sharing, was released, followed by dozens of other Torrent applications.
Cloud storage applications such as Box, Dropbox, iCloud, pastebins, and the like followed suit, and along with web-based messaging (i.e. Slack) and project management software, remain the primary file sharing services for private users and enterprises alike.
From collaborating on work documents to enjoying music services, we all use file sharing applications on a daily basis. Developers wanting to enhance applications with these services need the proper APIs to accomplish this.
A File Sharing API is an Application Programming Interface in which developers can utilize to add file-sharing functions to applications.
The best place to find these APIs is in the File Sharing category of the ProgrammableWeb API directory.
In this article, we provide details of the ten most popular File Sharing APIs, as determined by reader visits to the ProgrammableWeb website.
ONLYOFFICE is an open-source Platform for business collaboration and project management. The platform includes software for managing project, collaborating with team members, document management and a CRM. ONLYOFFICE APITrack this API gives developers programmatic access to standard CRUD operations on groups, files, projects, forums, people and more.
Google Drive is a cloud based storage platform that lets users access their data, including files of any format, from any device or application that connects to the internet. The Google Drive APITrack this API is offered indirectly via SDK and lets developers integrate the files stored in a user’s Drvie with their own third party applications. This gives users the ability to use multiple cloud apps to interact with their files that are stored in a single location in the cloud.
OneDrive APITrack this API allows developers to integrate OneDrive personal cloud storage services into their applications to store and manage user data. Features include the ability to keep files in sync using minimal calls to retrieve new changes to files and folders, resumable uploads of files up to 10 GB, and customizable file thumbnail images. This API is a part of the Microsoft Graph API.
Screenshot: Microsoft
MediaFire is a cloud-based service for storing and sharing files. Users can host and share any file type including documents, presentations, videos, and images. Users can access and manage their MediaFire cloud using the MediaFire RESTful APITrack this API.
4shared is an online storage and file sharing service that was founded in 2005. Users can upload, store and share all types of files, including music, video, photos and documents. The 4shared REST APITrack this API enables developers to manage users, files, folders and applications.
ownCloud is a document and data storage and sharing application. Documents and data uploaded to ownCloud are stored in the cloud. Users can sync their files, share their files, and encrypt their files. The ownCloud APITrack this API is available indirectly via iOS and Android SDKs and enables developers to access and integrate the functionality of ownCloud with other applications and to create new applications. Use it for uploading files, syncing files, and sharing files and more.
dpaste is a pastebin originally aimed at early-adopter Django coders in Freenode’s #django IRC channel. The dpaste APITrack this API allows users to create short URLs for sharing pieces of code. dpaste is a pastebin that allows users to share code on chat rooms, forums, etc. without flooding the conversation with text. All short URLs created by dpaste are private and can be set to expire after 1 to 365 days.
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M-Files is a solution for Enterprise Information Management (EIM). The M-Files APITrack this API makes it possible to access M-Files from within scripting environments (developers can refer to the User Manual for learning key concepts of the object model). Developers can use the M-Files to access and manage objects contained in an M-Files document vault. Methods are available to manage objects, interfaces, properties and enumerations.
pCloud is a secure cloud storage platform. The pCloud APITrack this API offers programmatic access with methods to manage folders, files, authorization, archiving, sharing, public links, thumbnails, revisions, transfers and much more.
Screenshot: pCloud
Box is an enterprise content management platform that enables users to secure, share and edit all your files from anywhere. Box offers several APIs for programmatic access. The Box Upload APITrack this API allows users the ability to add a new file to the Box platform. The user can upload a file by specifying the destination folder for the file. The API uses the multipart post method to complete all upload tasks.
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DUBLIN, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The “Enterprise Content Management System Market By Solution, By Deployment Mode, By Enterprise Size, By Industry Vertical: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2020-2030” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
According to this report the enterprise content management system market was valued at $21.5 billion in 2020, and is estimated to reach $53.2 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 9.8% from 2021 to 2030.
Enterprise content management is used to manage, capture, store, preserve, and deliver content to organizational processes. Enterprise content management reduces workload of organization by maintaining & processing the complex workflow, increase operational efficiency, and enhance customer experience. Furthermore, demand for enterprise content management system is increasing, owing to its features, including securing the stress content and integration of content with business intelligence & business analytics application.
The enterprise content management system market is expected to experience significant growth during the forecast period, owing to increase in need for digital content with the proliferation of online marketing and online customer relationship. Moreover, constant development of the e-commerce industry fuels the demand for enterprise content management systems to store, manage, create, and distribute digital content through online channels.
In addition, increase in adoption of cloud-based enterprise content management system is expected to boost the enterprise content management system market growth in the future. However, high initial costs of implementation and lack of awareness to implement the right solution for the specific needs among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) hinder the growth of enterprise content management system market.
The enterprise content management system market is segmented on the basis of solution, deployment mode, enterprise size, industry vertical, and region. According to solution, it is fragmented into records management, case management, document management, mobile content management, imaging & capturing, web content management, digital asset management, and others.
On the basis of deployment mode, it is bifurcated into on-premise and cloud. By enterprise size, it is categorized into large enterprises and small & medium enterprises. As per industry vertical, it is classified into BFSI, IT & telecom, energy & utilities, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, retail and consumer goods, manufacturing, and others. Region wise, it is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.
The major players operating in the enterprise content management system market are Adobe, Capgemini, Fabasoft, Hyland Software, Inc., Lexmark International, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, M-Files, Inc., Oracle, Open Text Corporation, and XEROX Corporation.
Key Benefits For Stakeholders
This report provides a quantitative analysis of the market segments, current trends, estimations, and dynamics of the enterprise content management system market forecast analysis from 2021 to 2030 to identify the prevailing enterprise content management system market opportunities.
The market research is offered along with information related to key drivers, restraints, and opportunities.
Porter’s five forces analysis highlights the potency of buyers and suppliers to enable stakeholders make profit-oriented business decisions and strengthen their supplier-buyer network.
In-depth analysis of the enterprise content management system market share assists to determine the prevailing market opportunities.
Major countries in each region are mapped according to their revenue contribution to the global enterprise content management system market size.
Market player positioning facilitates benchmarking and provides a clear understanding of the present position of the market players.
The report includes the analysis of the regional as well as global enterprise CMS market trends, key players, market segments, application areas, and market growth strategies.
Key Topics Covered:
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER 3: MARKET OVERVIEW
3.1. Market definition and scope
3.2. Key findings
3.2.1. Top investment pockets
3.3. Porter’s five forces analysis
3.4. Top player positioning
3.5. Market dynamics
3.5.1. Drivers
3.5.2. Restraints
3.5.3. Opportunities
3.6. COVID-19 Impact Analysis on the market
CHAPTER 4: ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MARKET, BY SOLUTION
4.1 Overview
4.1.1 Market size and forecast
4.2 Records Management
4.2.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
4.2.2 Market size and forecast, by region
4.2.3 Market analysis by country
4.3 Case Management
4.3.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
4.3.2 Market size and forecast, by region
4.3.3 Market analysis by country
4.4 Document Management
4.4.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
4.4.2 Market size and forecast, by region
4.4.3 Market analysis by country
4.5 Mobile Content Management
4.5.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
4.5.2 Market size and forecast, by region
4.5.3 Market analysis by country
4.6 Imaging and Capturing
4.6.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
4.6.2 Market size and forecast, by region
4.6.3 Market analysis by country
4.7 Web Content Management
4.7.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
4.7.2 Market size and forecast, by region
4.7.3 Market analysis by country
4.8 Digital Asset Management
4.8.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
4.8.2 Market size and forecast, by region
4.8.3 Market analysis by country
4.9 Others
4.9.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
4.9.2 Market size and forecast, by region
4.9.3 Market analysis by country
CHAPTER 5: ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MARKET, BY DEPLOYMENT MODE
5.1 Overview
5.1.1 Market size and forecast
5.2 On-Premise
5.2.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
5.2.2 Market size and forecast, by region
5.2.3 Market analysis by country
5.3 Cloud
5.3.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
5.3.2 Market size and forecast, by region
5.3.3 Market analysis by country
CHAPTER 6: ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MARKET, BY ENTERPRISE SIZE
6.1 Overview
6.1.1 Market size and forecast
6.2 Large Enterprises
6.2.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
6.2.2 Market size and forecast, by region
6.2.3 Market analysis by country
6.3 Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
6.3.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
6.3.2 Market size and forecast, by region
6.3.3 Market analysis by country
CHAPTER 7: ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MARKET, BY INDUSTRY VERTICAL
7.1 Overview
7.1.1 Market size and forecast
7.2 BFSI
7.2.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
7.2.2 Market size and forecast, by region
7.2.3 Market analysis by country
7.3 IT and Telecommunication
7.3.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
7.3.2 Market size and forecast, by region
7.3.3 Market analysis by country
7.4 Energy and Utilities
7.4.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
7.4.2 Market size and forecast, by region
7.4.3 Market analysis by country
7.5 Government and Public Sector
7.5.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
7.5.2 Market size and forecast, by region
7.5.3 Market analysis by country
7.6 Healthcare and Life Sciences
7.6.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
7.6.2 Market size and forecast, by region
7.6.3 Market analysis by country
7.7 Retail and Consumer Goods
7.7.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
7.7.2 Market size and forecast, by region
7.7.3 Market analysis by country
7.8 Manufacturing
7.8.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
7.8.2 Market size and forecast, by region
7.8.3 Market analysis by country
7.9 Others
7.9.1 Key market trends, growth factors and opportunities
7.9.2 Market size and forecast, by region
7.9.3 Market analysis by country
CHAPTER 8: ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MARKET, BY REGION
CHAPTER 9: COMPANY LANDSCAPE
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Top winning strategies
9.3. Product Mapping of Top 10 Player
9.4. Competitive Dashboard
9.5. Competitive Heatmap
9.6. Key developments
CHAPTER 10: COMPANY PROFILES
10.1 Oracle Corporation.
10.1.1 Company overview
10.1.2 Company snapshot
10.1.3 Operating business segments
10.1.4 Product portfolio
10.1.5 Business performance
10.1.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.2 Hyland Software, Inc.
10.2.1 Company overview
10.2.2 Company snapshot
10.2.3 Operating business segments
10.2.4 Product portfolio
10.2.5 Business performance
10.2.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.3 Xerox Corporation
10.3.1 Company overview
10.3.2 Company snapshot
10.3.3 Operating business segments
10.3.4 Product portfolio
10.3.5 Business performance
10.3.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.4 Opentext Corporation
10.4.1 Company overview
10.4.2 Company snapshot
10.4.3 Operating business segments
10.4.4 Product portfolio
10.4.5 Business performance
10.4.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.5 Alfresco Software, Inc.
10.5.1 Company overview
10.5.2 Company snapshot
10.5.3 Operating business segments
10.5.4 Product portfolio
10.5.5 Business performance
10.5.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.6 Lexmark International, Inc.
10.6.1 Company overview
10.6.2 Company snapshot
10.6.3 Operating business segments
10.6.4 Product portfolio
10.6.5 Business performance
10.6.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.7 M-Files Inc.
10.7.1 Company overview
10.7.2 Company snapshot
10.7.3 Operating business segments
10.7.4 Product portfolio
10.7.5 Business performance
10.7.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.8 Microsoft Corporation
10.8.1 Company overview
10.8.2 Company snapshot
10.8.3 Operating business segments
10.8.4 Product portfolio
10.8.5 Business performance
10.8.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.9 Adobe Systems Incorporated
10.9.1 Company overview
10.9.2 Company snapshot
10.9.3 Operating business segments
10.9.4 Product portfolio
10.9.5 Business performance
10.9.6 Key strategic moves and developments
10.10 Fabasoft
10.10.1 Company overview
10.10.2 Company snapshot
10.10.3 Operating business segments
10.10.4 Product portfolio
10.10.5 Business performance
10.10.6 Key strategic moves and developments
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2022 was a big year for IT modernization and cybersecurity at the Defense Department (DOD), with many developments around hybrid cloud, zero trust, and more to come this year. These were the biggest stories in defense IT that will impact 2023 initiatives, such as the recently awarded Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC).
Zero trust dominated tech conversations at DOD all year, culminating in the release of the Pentagon’s long-awaited five-year zero trust strategy, which established a cohesive zero trust vision and outlined the capabilities needed to reach “target level” zero trust readiness by 2027.
The strategy will be crucial to implementing the DOD’s ambitious Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) plan, which aims to modernize the department’s command and control infrastructure to “deliver information advantage at the speed of relevance.” Zero trust offers the possibility to secure data and information transfer to meet mission demands without compromising cybersecurity or user experience.
The five-year strategy also supports the department’s efforts to move to an enterprise-wide cloud environment. The recently awarded Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) intends to support capabilities such as JADC2, as well as the department’s artificial intelligence (AI) and data acceleration initiative, also known as ADA.
The DOD Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) established Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) to coordinate the department’s zero trust architecture execution. Plus, to complement the Pentagon’s efforts, the Air Force plans to release its own zero trust strategy in early 2023.
Moving forward this year, the zero trust conversation will focus on integrating security solutions across the different service branches and Fourth Estate for ease of communication and data access.
“Zero trust is more than an IT solution. Zero trust may include certain products but is not a capability or device that may be bought. The journey to zero trust requires all DOD components to adopt and integrate zero trust capabilities, technologies, solutions and processes across their architectures, systems, and within their budget and execution plans,” DOD CIO John Sherman wrote in a foreword to the new strategy.
As DOD users became more mobile than ever before due to telework during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) initiated an effort to move network-based security to application-centric and data-centric security. The Thunderdome zero trust prototype became the starting point for moving away from the legacy castle-and-moat cybersecurity approach to extending the perimeter from the user to the edge of the data.
DISA awarded the $7 million Thunderdome zero trust prototype in January 2022 and announced a six-month extension in July, setting the project’s competition date for January 2023.
As the department phases out its legacy Joint Regional Security Stack (JRSS) program to replace with Thunderdome, DISA Cyber Technical Director Drew Malloy said this prototype is not intended to be a singular solution to zero trust.
“Now, is this going to be the ‘be all end all’ for that on zero trust? Absolutely not,” he said at AFCEA’s TechNet Cyber event last year. “But these are the large deltas that we identified in our architecture that we felt we needed to prioritize.”
DOD announced its new division, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Office (CDAO), at the beginning of 2022 to further advance the department’s digital transformation with AI innovation. The CDAO merges the now-defunct Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) and the Defense Digital Service.
The CDAO is responsible for coordinating and boosting the department’s data and AI efforts. The Defense Digital Service and JAIC functions were reorganized and now report to the CDAO. In April, Craig Martell was named the new CDAO, and the office reached full operating capability in June.
The new office’s priorities include improving user experience and aligning new AI products and services with combatant commanders’ mission needs. Rapid AI innovation is one of the Pentagon’s top priorities as AI will be critical to implement JADC2.
The CDAO will lead AI, data and analytics integration, strengthen industry engagement on AI and lead on “international engagements to enable AI readiness and responsibly use data, comport with data sharing requests and requirements, and adopt AI capabilities at speed and scale.”
One of the DOD’s top priorities is transforming user experience and warfighter experience through artificial intelligence, zero trust and automation.
“One of the things we talk about is user experience, and that is something we are going to be working on,” DOD CIO John Sherman said at the DOD Digital & AI Symposium.
DISA’s Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC) built a cloud portfolio to meet warfighter needs through a user-centered design approach. The Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and DISA are rolling out cloud capabilities in 2023, with user experience remaining top of mind.
The Army introduced new Google workspaces to impact the user experience and tackle the department’s recruiting challenges under direction from CIO Raj Iyer, who recently announced his impending departure. Improving user experience also drives Martell’s vision as he spearheads AI integration efforts across DOD.
“We can’t just deliver good IT, that’s not good enough,” HaCC Director Sharon Woods said at an FCW DOD Cloud Workshop. “We have to deliver a dynamic customer service experience so that we’re not just delivering the best value IT, but we’re doing it in a way that really matters for the customer.”
Defense IT leaders frequently cite good data management and governance as the foundation of AI innovation. As the CDAO continues to ramp up operations, Martell and other defense IT leaders will emphasize data management to get ready for AI.
“We gotta get the data right. And if we get the data right, AI is going to come for free, AI over time is going to happen in the department. I am very confident about that,” Martell said at a TransformX event.
Matt Jacobsen — director of the Air Force’s newest software factory, Hangar 18 — said AI holds promise for all DOD but only if program managers can optimize data management practices, something Hangar 18 hopes to address.
“We have a program manager that comes to Hangar 18 saying, ‘Hey I need help managing my data,’ and we’ll say, ‘What do you need?’ and he’ll say, ‘Gather it all!’ — That’s not a great strategy,” Jacobsen said in an interview with GovCIO Media & Research last year. “A lot of these program managers are not literate in data practice, so we don’t have that relationship. We are in the trenches. We have a very long way to go before we see widespread use of AI and ML in this space.”
Maj. Ryan Harth, deputy director at the AI division in the Force Modernization Center at Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), told GovCIO Media & Research in an interview that data is the heart of AI, which is then the heart of JADC2.
“At the center of AI, ML and predictive analytics is data,” he said. “You can only do any of those with enough of the right and or relevant data. For organizations that are geographically dispersed, such as USASOC, it’s almost mandatory to leverage a hybrid solution to architect the pipelines necessary to move from a producer to a production environment.”
SOCOM CDO Thomas Kenney set plans to develop a data-centric culture to innovate with AI effectively, and CDAO Data Scientist Lead James Doswell described his office’s work as primarily focused on managing data properly before developing AI use cases.
“As we are seeing more people come into the platform and try and build these AI/ML models, agencies are sending data to us and the data you receive one day, the next day something is completely off,” he said at an event last year. “It goes through a lot of different transformations. What we’re trying to do is be able to perform monitoring and learning and perform statistical analysis on that data, learning on top of data as we receive it, then be able to detail-document exactly what’s happening. The amount of time it takes to do that, is there any amount of data drift as it comes in that will affect your AI model? So being able to understand the full lifecycle of the data before it even gets to the AI model [is important].”
In 2023, expect to see more stories around how various DOD components are optimizing data management and governance to prepare for AI.
DOD awarded Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contracts to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle at the end of the 2022 calendar year, marking the dawn of a new era for DOD cloud.
The JWCC intends to complement current cloud efforts across the department, such as the Army Enterprise Cloud Management Agency’s (ECMA) cArmy effort, SOCOM’s mobile communications prototype, DISA’s Vulcan DevSecOps program and the DISA HACC Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) initiative.
DISA’s Woods expects the JWCC to be one piece of the cloud puzzle, not the “end all be all” of DOD cloud, according to a new interview with GovCIO Media & Research kicking off the new year.
Because DOD aims to balance its own private cloud networks with commercial cloud solutions, hybrid-cloud security and modernization challenges will drive the IT narrative at DOD in 2023.
One key trend will be edge computing as the services continue to push data access to the network edge to improve user experience and response times.
Fog computing, which computes data close to the edge of the network instead, allows for higher interoperability and scalability than edge computing, which will be a high priority for defense IT leaders exploring mobile computing solutions for JADC2 in 2023.
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