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” […]
One more article on the importance of governance to a healthy SharePoint implementation worth a review
Any enterprise content management (ECM) system (including solutions built on Microsoft’s SharePoint Server, on-premises, and/or SharePoint Online, Office 365) should include governance, if it is to be successful. Joe Shepley provides a succinct presentation of the importance of governance in an article titled The SharePoint Information Problem, which was published on the CMSWire website in […]
Be sure to include an ongoing adoption effort in your SharePoint, or SharePoint Online plan
A couple of recently published articles by prominent individuals in the SharePoint community – Chris Riley and Christian Buckley – remind me of an important feature of SharePoint plans more likely to succeed. These plans treat the challenge of user adoption as a chronic condition requiring continuous effort. Riley’s article is Why I Left ECM. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Encouraging Communities to Brand Content Contributes Positively to SharePoint Adoption Efforts
On the first day of SharePoint Conference 2014, MSDN’s Channel 9 Video service broadcast SPCtv A Talk with Microsoft IT on SharePoint, Adoption and Governance. The conversation was led by Karuana Gatimu and included Christian Wylde, Sean Squires, Pam Green and Carrie Doring. Squires, Green and Doring are all members of Wylde’s internal-facing “Social Collaboration […]