For some reason, many companies (mostly larger ones) don’t really consider SharePoint a good ECM platform. In fact, even some SharePoint administrators are dismissive of it’s ECM capabilities.
As we go through the series you’ll see how we can easily apply Records Management policies to any type of content within SharePoint 2010 which is extremely powerful!
However we will be specifically concentrating on new functionality in SharePoint 2010 and defining our Content Types with Records Management in mind.
a site that has certain elements such as a task list, calendar, document libraries and some other out of the box functionality that SharePoint 2010 offers.
As a result, most implementations did not have a management plan as to which of SharePoint’s many features were to be used, and where.
SharePoint is making inroads as an ECM or Records Management system, primarily because of its document library features, price, and integration with Office. But, for SharePoint to move beyond that and become the system to do document-centric transactional processing, you’ll need to customize and plan your SharePoint installation more carefully.
I gave a presentation to the New York Smalltalk User Group at which
The hype cycle has started for the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 and I’m certainly not the only one to get caught up in it
SharePoint Saturday: The Challenge of Unstructured Content, Concepts and Terminologies, Taxonomy and ECM Adoption Techniques, Why should Taxonomy matter to me
What goes into a Document Workshop? Well, the first thing would be the raw materials. In the case of documents, that would be templates. Sure, you can tie templates to Content Types but that might be overkill – this is a workshop, not an assembly line. I like attaching templates to a Custom List item that explains the purpose of the template. The other thing we might put in that list is instructions to help a new person create this type of document. Then we put up a list of contacts but not just the people on the project team; we include the people the team might need to reach out to for advice and help. We are also finding that interactive parts like discussions and wikis are useful for exploring ideas and developing content.
