Sharepoint Meets ECM

Sharepoint Meets ECM -- Chicago Style

A good 5 part live post from our Chicago Sharepoint Meets ECM seminar by Greg Clark provides a look into the series... Check out -- http://www.c3associates.com/category/aiim/.

Post Your Questions and Check Your Calendar

Over 300 attendees particpated in the first two cities of our "Sharepoint Meets ECM" seminar series. Make sure you post questions on this blog (via the comments section) of issues you would like to make sure we cover, and make sure that you are on the attendee list (see right sidebar for dates and cities).

Have You Seen My Stapler? - Viral Tarpara's Blog : Evolving Company Culture Starts With a "SharePoint"

Link: Have You Seen My Stapler? - Viral Tarpara's Blog : Evolving Company Culture Starts With a "SharePoint".

Each company has its own way of doing things whether it is phrasing emails for internal communication to sharing information across workgroups.  The challenge arises when companies do not improve their workflow practices and behavior.  Take, for instance, a simple process of exchanging marketing material.  The 1990's way of doing things was to use the company's Exchange server and Outlook, the problem nowadays is that rich content is much larger then it was in the past and more frequent.  Exchange was never suited to optimally handle 10-20MB files.  With the advent of the USB flash drive, many employees took it upon themselves to backup and move information themselves because the tools they possessed were just not adequate.

The last universal cultural change occurred with email becoming mainstream.  The next dramatic shift will occur with a powerful collaboration infrastructure not Starbucks i.e. SharePoint.  More and more companies are realizing the importance of developing a managed collaboration environment. 

Sharepoint and Records Management

Here's a perspective on the intersection of Sharepoint and ECM worth reading -- whether you agree with the conclusions or not. It's written by Andrew Chapman, the Director of Compliance Applications for EMC's Content Management and Archiving Business Unit.

This will give you a flavor...HERE's THE LINK...

So why does Sharepoint's approach to records management scare me so much ? Every Sharepoint repository is effectively a content silo. Forget formal records management for a second and consider discoverable content - pretty much anything in your enterprise could be subject to a discovery notice from the courts. Will you be able to go to one place and find, categorize, lock down and deliver content from all of your Sharepoint repositories? I spoke to a customer recently who were adding 1,000 new Sharepoint repositories a month - yes, that's 12,000 new silos per year.

Not necessarily an AIIM perspective -- we don't take positions on particular products -- but some issues to think about and make sure you ask at our upcoming seminar series on "Sharepoint Meets ECM."

Open Text, Sharepoint, and Mainstream ECM

The folks at C3 Associates have some interesting thoughts on Open Text, Sharepoint, and the growth of the ECM market in a recent blog posting. It's worth checking out at THIS LINK.

If you haven't already registered for our fall seminar series, make sure to check the schedule for our Fall seminar series, which will focus on the intersection between ECM and Sharepoint.

The role of MOSS in an large scale ECM environment (Part 1)

Some interesting insights from a Sharepoint Consultant on the role of MOSS in a large scale ECM environment...Emile Bosch’s Sharepoint Blog

Link: The role of MOSS in an large scale ECM environment (Part 1) « Agile|Direct - Emile Bosch’s Sharepoint Blog.

If you haven't already registered for our fall seminar series, make sure to check the schedule for our Fall seminar series, which will focus on the intersection between ECM and Sharepoint.

Just About Every Microsoft and MOSS Link You Can Imagine

I came across this blog and thought it might be of interest to the attendees and prospective attendees of our "Sharepoint Meets ECM" seminars. It was put together by a blogger named Scott Wagner and includes links to just about every MOSS and related link imaginable.

Link: Project Server 201 - Scott M. Wagner MCP, MVP: Microsoft EPM (Enterprise Project Management) Solution Support and Reference Links.

If you haven't already registered for our fall seminar series, make sure to check the schedule for our Fall seminar series, which will focus on the intersection between ECM and Sharepoint.

Top Questions on Sharepoint and ECM

Doculabs will be speaking at our fall Seminar series on "Sharepoint Meets ECM." Some of their thoughts...and a sample of some of the questions we will be exploring during the seminar.

What's your experience on these questions? What questions would you like answered? Post a comment below...

Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) is fast becoming a part of the technology environment for many organizations, as they seek to provide general-purpose, user-friendly, collaborative content management that can be rolled out easily to the majority of their users.

But it is not always simple. Here is a preview of three of the top 10 questions that Doculabs has identified that end users are asking...

What applications should leverage MOSS 2007 functionality, versus those delivered by other ECM systems?

What is the functional comparison between MOSS 2007 and other ECM systems?

How do I control the costs of a MOSS 2007 implementation to ensure they do not become redundant with existing ECM investments?

If you haven't already registered for our fall seminar series, make sure to check the schedule for our Fall seminar series, which will focus on the intersection between ECM and Sharepoint.

7 Part Series on Sharepoint and ECM

My friend Russ Stalters has taken a new job with British Petroleum. Russ' blog (Better ECM) is one of the best out there relative to content and document management.

For those interested in the intersection between ECM and Sharepoint, Russ did an excellent 7 part series earlier this year. It's worth going back and checking out. THIS LINK is for the 7th in the series, and that will reference you to all the rest.

Good luck in the new gig, Russ. Keep writing the blog.

If you haven't already registered for our fall seminar series, make sure to check the schedule for our Fall seminar series, which will focus on the intersection between ECM and Sharepoint.

Sharepoint and ECM -- What's Your System of Record?

EDOC On-Line Columnist Gautam Desai from Doculabs offers some interesting perspectives about records management strategies among end users now that Sharepoint has arrived. Here's an excerpt...

Maybe your organization is among those that is rolling out Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to your business units and workgroups, as a way of meeting their immediate needs for managing unstructured content. Lately, we've seen many of our consulting clients implementing MOSS, even though they may already have in place an enterprise content management (ECM) solution with advanced content management capabilities. But the question arises: Which system should serve as the organization's official system of record - i.e. the place you can trust to look in order to find the right, final, latest version of a piece of information?

For the full article, go to THIS LINK.

If you haven't already registered for our fall seminar series, make sure to check the schedule for our Fall seminar series, which will focus on the intersection between ECM and Sharepoint.