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Governance, Tick. User adoption, double tick. Custom development and records management, tick again. IDM’s 2012 survey of knowledge and information managers has found some common concerns as they undertake SharePoint upgrades or fresh deployments across Australia and New Zealand.

Joanna Hicks, Knowledge Manager at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).

The Catholic Education Office of Canberra and Goulburn deployed a SP 2007 trial at the beginning 2011 to evaluate it as a corporate information portal.

“We currently store our electronic documents on network file shares and once the Intranet is redeveloped, we hope to encourage staff to use this as the place to store electronic documents,” said Amanda Lea, Manager, Corporate Information at the The Department for Communities WA.

At Whitireia NZ, one of New Zealand’s largest learning institutions with five campus’s and approximately 1000 full and part time staff, SharePoint 2010 is being deployed for document and records management, application development and workflow. It is being used for the organisational intranet and TeamSites.

A staggered rollout across the whole organisation uses a taxonomy developed for all NZ polytechnics based on Records Disposals Acts (NZ).

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