The Australia SharePoint Conference, taking place on June 16 and June 17 in Sydney, will feature a showcase of infrastructure management software solutions from Gold Sponsor AvePoint

The event will give attendees the opportunity to learn from local and international experts, network with industry peers, and hear about the latest offerings from the world's top SharePoint solution providers.

"We are honoured to be the Gold Sponsor for the Australian SharePoint Conference 2010," said Garth Luke, AvePoint's Vice President of Sales, Australasia. "The SharePoint community in Australia is growing rapidly, as organisations recognize the platform's unparalleled ability to manage information and enable effective collaboration.

"AvePoint is devoted to helping organisations get the most from SharePoint by delivering best-in-class solutions to robustly protect, efficiently manage, seamlessly integrate, and fully optimise their deployments."

AvePoint will have a booth at the Australia SharePoint Conference where attendees can learn how the DocAve Software Platform can remove the administrative and financial barriers organisations face when leveraging SharePoint as their information management platform.

AvePoint's SharePoint experts will also lead two sessions during the show, focusing on how organisations can optimise and extend their SharePoint storage architecture, improve overall performance of the platform, and craft an intelligent content lifecycle management strategy unique to their business needs.

* June 16 - 3:45 p.m. - "SharePoint Storage Essentials: Optimising SharePoint's SQL Resources and Delivering Real Content Lifecycle Management"

* June 17 - 2:45 p.m. - "Case Study: Extending SharePoint Storage Beyond the SQL Database"

As more organisations turn to Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to organise, streamline and optimise their productivity and efficiency enterprise-wide, they have come to a crossroads. The very characteristics of the platform that make it a potent and popular business tool – its ease of use and propensity for grass-roots growth – make the implementation of compliance initiatives important, yet challenging.

Avepoint has developed DocAve Vault for SharePoint to provide precision data retrieval based on metadata, full-content, and contextual searches – complemented by tools to conduct relevance ranking, search-term highlighting and results ‘collapsing’ – so archive data can be targeted and compiled quickly and efficiently.
DocAve Auditor for SharePoint provides the additional ability to track and record all SharePoint interactions and events – including all usage, searches/queries and security changes – to allow companies to proactively satisfy their compliance obligations. 

eDiscovery for SharePoint is a module that can search – in real-time or according to customisable schedules – all live or archived SharePoint content by any combination of keywords, attributes and metadata fields, in response to any legal and compliance inquiries.

Evidence identified through the discovery process – including metadata and audit history – can be selected and exported to multiple portable and viewable formats, letting external legal authorities review it via their own protocols and/or software platforms. All responsive data is delivered with all applicable metadata, attributes, audit histories and source locations – via an affiliated .xml, .pdf, or .csv file – to ensure exhaustive compliance, as required.

AvePoint has produced a white paper that reviews the general principles underlying today’s regulatory and legal environment and analyses SharePoint’s native capabilities to meet these compliance obligations.