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Is Capture where SharePoint’s Next Billion Will Come From?

Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:28 AM by loufranco
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 Read More...
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More “8 Things” goodness: SharePoint + ECM

Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:55 AM by loufranco
The AIIM Digital Landfill blog’s 8 Things series is still going strong . The latest is Michael Elkins (from the Kestral Group ) on 8 Things to Consider when Implementing SharePoint with Another ECM engine . SharePoint sites are often created with little Read More...
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CMIS and SharePoint 2010 – What will it be?

Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:24 AM by loufranco
CMS Report is lamenting the lack of details of CMIS and SharePoint 2010 : While Microsoft announced their support for CMIS in September 2008 there has been little word from Microsoft on when we'll see CMIS available for SharePoint users and whether CMIS Read More...
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Is SharePoint Scary?

Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:47 PM by loufranco
Last month, I wrote about a Computerworld article on the cost of SharePoint that concluded: If CIOs treat SharePoint as off-the-shelf software, the costs will indeed be onerous. However, if CIOs treat it as an enterprise information platform and content Read More...
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AIIM’s 8 Things Series

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:29 AM by loufranco
The 8 Things series on AIIM’s Digital Landfill blog is still going strong. Today, they published my contribution, 8 Ways to Reduce your Storage and Bandwidth Costs for Document Imaging Solutions . If you’d like more imaging information like that, sign Read More...
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SharePoint Cost Overview

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:20 PM by loufranco
Here’s a good article in Computerworld for determining the true cost of SharePoint . Key message, it’s just like any other enterprise software, don’t treat it like off-the-shelf software: If CIOs treat SharePoint as off-the-shelf software, the costs will Read More...
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Jeff Shuey on Capture in SharePoint

Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:25 PM by loufranco
Jeff Shuey thinks Document Capture in SharePoint is up for grabs : Companies that had a chance to own this space have faltered. The leading vendor of document capture for 20+ years is Kofax. They have fallen flat and cannot seem to get out of their own Read More...
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CMIS in SharePoint 2010

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 8:31 AM by loufranco
Lars Fastrup has a round-up of the new features of SharePoint 2010 . Among them is that CMIS will be supported. I’ve already blogged that Microsoft released a sample project for consuming CMIS in a document library , which has been possible for a while, Read More...
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25 Ways to Make Content More Findable

Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 4:14 PM by loufranco
It’s a cliché that nobody ever wanted a drill, they wanted a hole , but the same is true for search – nobody wants to search -- they want to find. To that end, here are some ways to make content easier to find. If you make content: Make something worth Read More...
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What Wolfram Alpha could do for the Enterprise

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:49 PM by loufranco
Wolfram Alpha is built on a curated, proprietary database created over several years by 100+ Wolfram employees . I don’t think that the details of this database have been released, but it’s clear that it isn’t something that was created by web-spidering, Read More...
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Star Trek: Review from an ECM Perspective

Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 12:08 PM by loufranco
Back in the eighties, David Letterman used to have a segment called Limited Perspective Movie Reviews, where movies would be reviewed by experts that only concentrated on a single aspect of the movie – for example, a dentist would review the teeth of Read More...
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Oracle owns an Office Suite, so now what?

Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:08 PM by loufranco
One of the big advantages that SharePoint has is that it’s tightly integrated with Microsoft’s Office suite. This is something that some vendors (like Alfresco and us with Vizit Scan to SharePoint ) have recognized and have worked to implement the same Read More...
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Document Storage: Database Blobs or the Filesystem

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:27 PM by loufranco
About a year ago, I wrote about some of the technical issues around image storage in a database – mostly I concentrated on some of the implementation issues. Over at, Never Talk When You Can Nod , Andrew Chapman has been laying out the case for taking Read More...
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Microsoft’s First CMIS Moves

Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 11:28 AM by loufranco
Via the CMSWatch , I took a look at this MSDN article on Microsoft’s first attempt at showing how SharePoint and CMIS might work . The article links to this SharePoint solution that implements CMIS external document libraries . The focus is on bringing Read More...
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Document Imaging Viral Video

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:24 AM by loufranco
In case you're wondering if your industry is too boring to spawn a viral video, I want to share this one from mine. ScanRobot -- the automatic book scanner . The thing that's interesting, is that Part I has 100k+ views on youtube, but part II has about Read More...
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