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 ...

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 ...

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 will be incorporated into SharePoint 2010. And he’s right – Bryan gives an exhaustive list ...

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 management system, SharePoint will yield tremendous value-and potentially at a fraction of ...

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 indeed be onerous. However, if CIOs treat it as an enterprise information platform and ...

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 way to make anything significant happen. I’m sure there are wins in various places across the ...

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, so I assume that CMIS support must mean that we’ll be able to interact with SharePoint documents ...

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 blobs out of the database and storing them on the filesystem – specifically with regards to ...

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 content into SharePoint via CMIS, not in exposing SharePoint content. In this preview, they ...

Last month Atalasoft launched Vizit SP, a zero-footprint document image viewer for SharePoint. When we released DotImage in 2003, our goal was to help organizations build web-based document imaging solutions faster and with better technology. We did this by providing a powerful, yet easy to use API with many UI controls focused on document imaging ...