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Cloud | Collaboration | Mobile
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Capture and Imaging | Sharepoint and Office 365
Microsoft SharePoint is sweeping through organizations, serving as a powerful catalyst for the benefits of enterprise content management (ECM), which include not just managing content, but also collaboration and process automation. In some cases, it has pushed companies to seriously consider leveraging SharePoint as the first step towards ECM. For other companies, it has been more about how SharePoint needs to coexist with current systems. While SharePoint has brought ECM to the masses in a simple and easy-to-deploy way, one question that looms large is: How do I get my paper into SharePoint so that I can transform it from a liability into an immediate business advantage? To answer that question requires careful consideration of the eight key points outlined here.
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Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.
Compliance | Information Governance
Enterprises today are faced with explosive growth in the volume and complexity of information, as new forms of content and communication become a part of every organization. Adding to the challenge, the legal and regulatory environment for most enterprises has become more rigorous, imposing significant obligations on all types of content and information channels. Entities need to find methods to address these disparate needs if they are to effectively manage risk and derive the true value of information within their environments.
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Intelligent Information Management (IIM) | PDF | Productivity
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1. Business Connectivity Services. The Business Connectivity Services (BCS) used to be called the Business Data Catalog (BDC). It provides access to your external data sources such as databases, external business systems, and web services. Using BCS, External Content Types can be created that allow read/write access back to the external data sources. External lists, which operate much like normal lists, can be created in SharePoint from these External Content Types so you can have access to these external systems right inside of SharePoint. Client applications such as Office or third party applications can also connect to the external data source using the ECT without writing any proprietary code. There is also an offline caching mechanism to enable offline access to External Content Types.
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