Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:28 AM
by
loufranco
Is Capture where SharePoint’s Next Billion Will Come From?
Jeff Shuey thinks the next billion dollars for SharePoint and their partners is in Document Capture.
I submit that SharePoint can add another $1 Billion dollars to this by focusing on [the Document Capture section] of the ECM market alone. […] which includes scanning, faxing, and otherwise importing paper based documents.
Jeff has written about this opportunity before.
And, he’s not the only one. Ralph Gammon’s Document Imaging Report (the leading document capture industry newsletter) is also tracking SharePoint’s inroads into the capture market:
With the 2007 release, Microsoft first got serious about SharePoint's document management capabilities. With the 2010 version, there are even more document management capabilities.
Although SharePoint doesn't have any inherent document imaging, in many ways (but certainly not all) a scanned image can be managed like another electronic document. Because of this, we are seeing increasing interest in using SharePoint for document imaging.
Ralph is collecting document capture in SharePoint case studies – keep an eye on this section of the site if you’re interested in how SharePoint is disrupting the capture market and providing significant value.