SharePoint, like any other computing platform, offers stakeholders lots of capabilities. But successfully capitalizing on what, otherwise, may be hidden features often requires some work. Enterprise content management (ECM) is an example of one feature set achievable on either an on-premises SharePoint implementation, or even on Office 365. ECM may be a “nice to have” […]
Adding External Data to SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online Adds Value to Either Platform
Any plan to implement SharePoint as a legitimate solution for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) needs to address how external data, meaning information usually stored in Line of Business (LoB) silos, will be added to SharePoint and published for user consumption. The rationale for this mandate is simple. A legitimate ECM solution must be capable of […]
A Realistic Approach to Content Governance with SharePoint 2013
In a post to AIIM’s Expert Blogs titled Enterprise Content Governance 2014: A SharePoint Point of View, Mike Alsup, Senior Vice President at Gimmal Group draws a quick sketch of what I would characterize as a realistic view of the components of a truly useful content governance plan for an ECM effort for a larger […]
SharePoint has All of the Components of a True Information Governance Platform, But Building a Plan is a First Step to Realize this Benefit
As I’ve written fairly extensively to this blog, SharePoint server, from 2007 to 2013, and even SharePoint Online, Office 365, offers a series of very useful features, out of the box, for either an Enterprise Content Management (ECM), or a Document Management (DM)/Records Management (RM) application. SharePoint-Videos also offers a lot of recently published video […]
Enterprise Content Management and Document Management Applications for Sharepoint are Popular With Larger Organizations
SharePoint-Videos offers several sets of video training content on key components of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) or Document Management (DM) application for SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013. These sets include: SharePoint 2013: Enterprise Forms SharePoint 2013: Records Management
SharePoint 2013 is Widely Recognized as an Attractive Solution for Information Governance
SharePoint-Videos publishes lots of training content on configuring SharePoint 2010 and 2013 as an enterprise solution for records management, or content, or even document management. We aren’t alone in this opinion. No less an authoritative source as Forrester Research offers a webcast and/or a report on the same topic. Further, when we used the Google […]
Implementing SharePoint 2013, On Premises, for Enterprise Document Management
SharePoint® 2013, on premises, is, perhaps, a less expensive option for organizations to implement than most dedicated Enterprise Document Management (EDM) applications. SharePoint-Videos.com offers a lot of video training content on the topic, including a set compiled from an online course we held recently, which was led by Chris McNulty, a widely recognized subject matter […]
An Appetite for Document Workflow and Business Process Management Drives Enterprise Interest In SharePoint
Merely a minute into the third video tutorial in our SharePoint-Videos.com set on SharePoint 2013: Workflow, our instructor, Chris Beckett refers to a survey, conducted ” . . . a couple of years ago by Global 360 . . .” (quoted from a video tutorial titled “What’s new in 2013 Workflow and types of applications”). […]
How Organizations Benefit from SharePoint’s Managed Metadata Service
Anyone reviewing the first three video tutorials in our most recent set of video training content on SharePoint, Cheap Thrills in SharePoint will note a lot of discussion on what has become a very familiar topic across many of our sets of SharePoint specialized training — Metadata. It’s worth taking a post to this blog […]
A Successful Implementation of SharePoint’s Managed Metadata Service can Deliver Handsome Returns
There are few features of SharePoint promising more benefits for stakeholders than the Managed Metadata Service (MMS). Many high value implementations of SharePoint, for example, enterprise-wide document search, content management, and/or any of the most common methods of supporting governance, risk and compliance (GRC) activities, depend upon a successful implementation of MMS. We offer three […]