Windows IT Pro published a checklist for SharePoint Document Management. It covers some of the things you need to think about in addition to just adopting SharePoint (storage, interoperability, backup, security, etc) Those things are important, but instead of concentrating on the infrastructure mechanics of document management, it’s better to ...

A critical piece of any ECM is robust search capabilities. With SharePoint 2007, Microsoft scores well in search according to Gartner in their ECM Magic Quadrant, but will fair even better next year with the enhanced search features in SharePoint 2010. Atalasoft has recognized the need to improve the retrieval of documents in SharePoint by ...

Dux Raymond Sy (@meetdux) is writing a series introducing SharePoint to executives. For it, he created this compelling video about how easy it is for a project manager to create their own collaborative intranet without IT. SharePoint Empowers Users from Dux Raymond Sy on Vimeo.

I just read an article in the midmarket CIO section of TechTarget reporting on Forrester’s finding that SharePoint is gaining market share in Records Management. The finding is surprising because SharePoint 2007 has some "significant shortcomings" when it comes to records management (RM), said Hill and others. While miles ahead of ...

Say goodbye to WinForms, WPF, and maybe even AJAX.  Today Scott “The Gu” Guthrie took the stage and blew everyone away with the extensive desktop-app replacing features of Silverlight 4.   This occurred directly after the exciting announcement of free Microsoft branded PDC touchscreen Windows 7 laptops for attendees.  This ...

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 ...

Time is Money Currently, one of the most popular web development platforms is LAMP. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. The reason why it is used by so many is that the whole stack is free. Well, sort of... There's a lot of time that gets wasted in the development process for this platform; the tools just simply aren't ...

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 thought with respect to long term use.  As a result, when it comes to linking into ...

Hive, Hive, Hive, <slap>, ... ok fine. 14 Root For quite a while now, SharePoint developers have been referring to the 12 directory located on WebFronts as the "12 hive". Well, Microsoft no likey. It's now, at least by some, referred to as the "14 root". RIP WSS, MOSS In a great move, "Windows" and ...

Over at Jeff Shuey’s blog, I read about the announcement of Google’s Apps at Work. Jeff’s an absolute expert on what it means to be a Microsoft partner – he was a Partner Manager at Microsoft and in the ECM space, he’s been a Parter/Alliance manager for Kofax and Captaris. His take: The challenge for Google will be to empower a vibrant group ...