Enterprise Content Management

Metalogix has  announced the release of StoragePoint 4.2, its integrated SharePoint storage, backup and recovery solution offering automated backup, either on-premises or in the cloud, and the ability to granularly restore lost content all the way down to the document level.

 

Laserfiche has announced an integration between its ECM solution and the DocuSign eSignature platform to automate document signing, validation and archiving.

Infrascale's enterprise collaboration tool, FileLocker, is now available with connectors for SharePoint that enhance functionality for secure collaboration and in-cloud editing, previewing, remote wipe and administrator control. 

Anne Lyons, Assistant Director-General, Government Information Assurance and Policy at the National Archives of Australia, has responded to an article (Will feds be ready for 2015 digital deadline?) in the May-June 2013 edition of Image & Data Manager, questioning whether the 2015 timetable is realistic and able to be achieved.

Firstly, I would like to thank Ms Lyons for her detailed response to my article and welcome the chance to continue the discussion.

The Queensland Parliament has deployed a new publication system using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 to publish the Parliament’s record of Proceedings (Hansard) (transcripts of parliamentary proceedings). The success of the project, together with the need to create a SharePoint environment, has seen use of SharePoint extended to handle Intranet and it is now being considered for a range of other collaboration and content management applications.

Businesses are in the middle of a “data explosion.” From January to December 2012, companies saw their data grow 56 percent, which means the amount of data stored doubles every 18 months, according to the Aberdeen Group report Master Data Management in 2013.

So, your organisation has decided to invest in an (ECM) solution, but before you make a rash decision and sign a contract with the first ECM provider you find on your Internet search, consider these 10 “must-have” features that your selected ECM should provide.

According to a new report by University of Greenwich Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas organisations are capturing and sharing the wrong sort of knowledge. Based upon a five-year investigation, the report Transforming Knowledge Management sets out a more affordable route to high performance organisations.

One of the big attractions of SharePoint is that through a list you can generate a form, hence you can take a process that could be paper based and automate it. When talking to organisations about SharePoint this is often one of the deal clinchers when considering if SharePoint is the solution for them. Especially if they have no form automation or Access database setup.

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