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Capture and Imaging | Document Management | Sharepoint and Office 365
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Before consulting on any SharePoint project, a little detective work on the IT department can really pay off. One reason for this is that SharePoint has a reputation for being a "disruptive" technology. Let's deconstruct what this term means with respect to IT office politics before getting to the wrecking strategy detailed below. First, we must acknowledge that SharePoint doesn't really fit any of the standard categories used to manage IT applications. It's not an ECM system in the sense of being exclusively focused on that function alone, though it can be used to manage content. It's not a search engine, though it can search across many types of content. It manages web content, but it manages lots of other content too. And finally, the straw that we always grasp at, it's a "collaboration" platform, which is fuzziness itself when bean counters try to measure its ROI.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Sharepoint and Office 365
With the release of SharePoint 2010 in beta and the anticipated production release sometime in the first half of 2010 (one source says it will be released late in Q1, but that’s a full-blown rumor, so don’t hold me to that), it is time to provide an update on the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s collaboration/content management/business intelligence/portal/ECM/records management tool. In an earlier post, I listed Eight Things SharePoint 2010 Needs to be a True ECM System, and, at first glance, the new version looks very encouraging from an ECM perspective. As I’ve said before, I get excited by anything that can help my clients better manage their information, and SharePoint has the potential to be a transformative platform bridging structured content, unstructured content, and social computing in one flexible package. SharePoint 2007 does a decent job of this, but it has some deficiencies when it comes to managing all content in the enterprise.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Sharepoint and Office 365
Microsoft recently released the beta version of SharePoint 2010. From a content management perspective, their goal was to provide “ECM for the Masses." But what exactly does that mean, and how does Microsoft expect to achieve it? I spent time over the last few months test driving the beta, and the technical preview versions with an eye toward “ECM for the Masses.” Here are eight ways SharePoint 2010 is bringing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) into the mainstream:
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Capture and Imaging | Sharepoint and Office 365
SharePoint is making inroads as an ECM or Records Management system, primarily because of its document library features, price, and integration with Office. But, for SharePoint to move beyond that and become the system to do document-centric transactional processing, you’ll need to customize and plan your SharePoint installation more carefully.
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