Implementing Workflows, and Document Imaging, as Policies, May Lead to Substantial Reductions in Paper Dependence for Regulated Businesses

In a case study titled Bank Innovates Work Environment, Boosts Performance with Social Collaboration, Microsoft® reports on the ambitious plan of a New Zealand bank, ASB Bank, to use SharePoint 2013 workflows in conjunction with Document Imaging (and what looks to be a formal records management procedure), to reduce paper dependence. As this case study […]

Implementing SharePoint as a Records Management Solution to Lower Operating Costs

Building a business case for a law firm to implement SharePoint 2013 as a records management solution should be a straightforward proposition. SharePoint 2013 includes a new E-Discovery feature targeted to law firms, and more. In a video tutorial titled How Litigation Holds and E-Discovery Work in SharePoint 2013, John Holliday, JD, explains how litigation […]

SharePoint 2013 and Records Management

In 2013, SharePoint-Videos.com published a set of video tutorials on using SharePoint 2013 for a records management application. This video tutorial set is authored by John Holliday and is titled SharePoint 2013: Records Management”>SharePoint 2013: Records Management. Some features of SharePoint 2013, Enterprise, were built into this server, intentionally, to support records management applications. In […]

Heavily Regulated Businesses can Use Out of the Box SharePoint 2010, Successfully, for Some Types of Records Management

Rehmani Consulting, Inc. has produced a video training course, approximately 8 minutes in length, on the topic of In Place Records Management [with SharePoint 2010]. Intended Audience This video training class is intended for an audience of SharePoint Administrators, Developers, Architects and other Power Users. Administrative privileges are required to replicate some of the procedures […]

Document and Records Management is a Fast Growing Enterprise Application for SharePoint

Whether as the result of greater regulatory scrutiny of large organizations in the public as well as private sectors, or in the interest of building truly useful Business Intelligence (BI) systems, enterprise efforts to manage documents across SharePoint (commonly referred to as Enterprise Content Management, ECM)is an area of growing interest on the part of […]

Solutions are at hand to Build Mission Critical Records Management Systems on SharePoint 2010

The Risk Management Association (RMA) recently announced the publication of Managing Records in SharePoint 2010 authored by Bruce Miller. As we have alluded in earlier posts to this blog, it is certainly within the range of SharePoint 2010 to craft mission-critical applications. Much of what we have written on this topic emphasizes the need for […]