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SharePoint 2010 ECM Features from Digital Landfill

by Mark Hazleton on 06/14/2010 07:51 0 comments , 230 views

Some good incites into how SharePoint 2010 has enhanced it’s ECM feature set and is set to take on the pure play vendors in the market.

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8 Reasons SharePoint 2010 Looks Like a True ECM System

Greg Clark Profile Photo  Our guest “8 things” columnist today is Greg Clark from C3 Associates, located in Calgary, Alberta. C3 exists to solve a problem faced by most organizations; how to take advantage of the vast amounts of content (documents, email, engineering drawings, web pages, presentations, photos, rich media files, etc.) generated every day in your organization. Greg earlier posted on his perspectiv
Eight Reasons SharePoint 2010 Looks Like a True ECM System

1 — Persistent links

2 — Store once, use many
3 — Honest-to-goodness Records Management
4 — Better metadata management
5 — Reusable search templates and stored search results
6 — More granular security
7 — Surface the audit trail
8 — More and more mature line-of-business integrations

To sum up, it is clear that SharePoint will continue to have a significant impact on the ECM landscape. The question is whether the functional improvements evident in SharePoint 2010 mean that organizations with significant commitments to other ECM platforms have to start all over again with SharePoint? In the short term, I think the answer is no. In many cases, the true benefit from the investments made in traditional ECM can be realized by surfacing some of this content though SharePoint interfaces; done well this can significantly enhance the user experience while still ensuring that the strong compliance engine in your existing ECM system keeps your content safe and your CEO out of jail.

I suspect that any changes in the ECM world will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. SharePoint is a disruptive technology to be sure, but given it’s breadth, relative lack of maturity and a widely varied partner community Microsoft will help the overall ECM market grow and likely take established ECM vendors with it. As they (used to) say on Wall Street, a rising tide floats all boats.

This is not to say that things will be easy for the makes of FileNet, Documentum, Livelink and others; they have a significant challenge ahead in trying to position their products not relative to one another, but relative to SharePoint (whether they like it or not). The vendors that do this well will continue to thrive and any that choose to ignore SharePoint or do not recognize the significance of the changes in SharePoint 2010 could be in trouble.

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