SharePoint Search
ECM (Enterprise content management ) - is a set of technologies used to capture, store, preserve and deliver content and documents and content related to organizational processes. ECM tools allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.
ECM employed the technologies and strategies of content management to address business process issues, such as records and auditing, knowledge sharing, personalization and standardization of content, and so on.
When we first looked at the new MetaVis Technologies tools for SharePoint, we knew there would be a lot of interest from
enterprise struggling to manage and control their SharePoint
implementations.These tools which include taxonomy support and metadata management for SharePoint
— both MOSS and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 — are any SharePoint
architect's dream, helping with the creation, deployment and management
of SharePoint sites.Today they are generally available to the
public and CMSWire caught up with Steve Pogrebivsky, MetaVis CEO and
Co-Founder, to check on how the products are being received.
They have been mum on the details of the SharePoint roadmap. But
with a SharePoint 14 Conference planned for October it was only a
matter of time before they started giving us tidbits on the road ahead.Not
the first SharePoint 14 announcement, but certainly one of the most
interesting so far is that Microsoft's FAST Search will be integrated
with SharePoint 14.
Search is important to most SharePoint projects, but unfortunately it is also something that causes quite a bit of frustration as well as confusion.
I'm very pleased to be talking on this exact topic in London on September 15 at a Henry Stewart conference on The Latest Thinking on Optimising Enterprise Search.
In my talk I'll cover some of the usual pitfalls and also share some
recent project experiences (both positive and less positive) with
SharePoint's search functionality.
Last week, after giving a keynote on the current and future of Enterprise Search at the Online Information conference in London, the first question asked of me was, "Why shouldn't I just get Google? It's what my boss thinks is best." My fellow search analyst Adriaan Bloem and I probably get this question more than any other. Well, while speaking with Google Search Appliance (GSA) customers as part of the research for the 2008 Enterprise Search Report, we found that once customers reached the limits of the appliance, they were pretty much stuck. The GSA lacks the advanced tuning controls found in many other Enterprise Search products, so customers hit walls when: indexing heterogeneous document storesattempting to adhere to complex, document-level security requirementscollecting non-web-based, and in particular, SharePoint-based information As you would expect, Google disagrees with our analysis. We think their marketing is ahead of their technology
When faced with the UK's Modernizing Government program, the Engineering &Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) turned to Mobius and Microsoft for an electronic document and records management system (EDRMS). Today, the joint solution of ViewDirect Records Management and SharePoint offers EPSRC's 350 users an integrated solution for document and records management. Submitted by Mobius Management Systems
It seems that the world is almost slowing down a bit as Microsoft readies a final version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server ("MOSS") 2007, the quite substantial upgrade to a nearly ubiquitous SharePoint 2003. SharePoint is many things to many people, but customers typically deploy it as a lightweight collaboration portal. With this latest version, Microsoft is trying to extend the product's reach. Our research (see the latest Enterprise Portals Report) indicates that Microsoft has certainly broadened SharePoint functionally, but sometimes "enterprise" means depth as well as breadth, and some of the old shortcomings (e.g., performance, administration) persist. It's worth testing MOSS, but don't count on an early, enterprisewide roll-out until Microsoft and its all-important channel work out more of the kinks. Our latest press advisory has more.
My colleague Steve Arnold recently blogged in these pages about how recent delays in Windows Vista and Office 2007 will impact the search marketplace, while other commentators have examined implications for the IT market at large. However, little has been written on the impact for the existing and potential users of Microsoft CMS and Sharepoint. For those customers, delays mean that more code and content will get deployed on the old platform, which translates into a bigger migration effort next year. So, what might be good news for competing vendors is really expensive news for Microsoft's customer base...[Update, 03 April: To clarify: So far it is only the consumer editions, and not the volume-license business editions, that are delayed]
Easily convert a high volume of paper documents to electronic format, so individuals throughout your enterprise can quickly access the content they need to move your business forward.Paper-based document management can be a significant expense for enterprises. Searching through paper files is time-consuming, and there's always the risk that information may be misfiled or lost. What's more, the costs of storing and distributing paper documents can be excessive.KnowledgeLake Capture is the high-volume, production-level capture system designed to eliminate these problems. Tightly integrated with Microsoft SharePoint, KnowledgeLake Capture enables end users in your corporate headquarters and branch offices to easily scan and index documents, then store them in the appropriate SharePoint repository in TIFF, PDF and XPS file formats.
From Microsoft blogger Arpan Shah comes more hints about the future of Microsoft CMS 2002 (MCMS). No big surprises, but useful details, especially for current customers concerned about what will surely be a big upgrade. New integration of other MS functions, like workflow and search, is certainly a boon to the currently underpowered product. Most important takeaway is that MCMS will become a kind of stepchild to SharePoint, which is good news for those who have invested heavily in that platform, but already, some developers are asking good questions about implementation implications.
Make the most of you time with this company overview, introduction to SharePoint and product demonstration.This streaming presentation will offer you:An introduction to Enterprise Content Management (ECM)Discuss at high level the features of Microsoft SharePointDefine the various products offered by KnowledgeLakeDemonstrate document imaging, capture and indexingStep through document search and retrieval within SharePointDescribe a number of success storiesTop 10 reasons customers choose KnowledgeLake
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