Moss

Well this is kind of interesting. Do you have SharePoint Services (WSS) up and running, but would really like to have some web publishing capabilities on top of it. Unfortunately you don't have the money to invest in full blown MOSS just to get web content management. CompleteSharePoint.NET offers you a solution — a Web content management system built on top of WSS.We were interested in understanding a bit more about this new Web CMS, so we asked Tommy Segoro — its creator — a few questions. CompleteSharePoint.NET was built by Tommy Segoro, a Practice Lead working at L7 Solutions in Perth, Western Australia. It is currently a beta solution. Released on CodePlex in October of last year, CS.NET has been downloaded over 519 time to date.

Autonomy has debuted ControlPoint for Multimedia, which has been specifically designed to enable global customers using Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS) to exploit the full value of their rich media assets.Autonomy explains ControlPoint for Multimedia uses an advanced conceptual approach to analyze and retrieve the rich media content within MOSS, without relying solely on the manual tagging of metadata. Users are presented with the most relevant content—both textual and non-textual—that is conceptually related to the selected rich media file in an intuitive interface.

Mid-size and enterprise companies are using Web 2.0 collaboration systems to build solutions that service several different parts of the organization. In many cases, line-of-business users from many departments are interested in using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 as an integrated platform as part of their solution. This article highlights some of the common scenarios, sponsors, benefits, and opportunities for multiplying the ROI of a collaboration platform by leveraging its use across multiple departments.

Microsoft recently released an MSDN article written by Trent Swanson and Bhushan Nene from Microsoft, along with independent SharePoint MVP Scot Hiler. The article demonstrates how to implement an external content repository as a document library-like construct within SharePoint. The authors also released the underlying code, which you can download into your own MOSS environment.

“I'm not really sure who owns the intranet.” The most popular refrain and most cited answer my company receives to the question of intranet ownership – that has been posed to many hundreds of executives and middle managers of organizations in the past few years (intranet clients of Prescient Digital Media). Shockingly, even the folks in Communications and IT often answer with confusion believing that they are at least a part owner “but I'm not really sure.”

Recruiting at the enterprise level can be a chore. With large amounts of documents, innumerable departments and HR nightmares, it can be easy to get lost fast. For those enterprises who want better control Open Text has teamed with Microsoft to bring you a recruiting management solution for use with SharePoint Server 2007.

Bamboo Solutions provides a number of web parts and applications for the SharePoint platform. One that is particularly interesting is their MashPoint solution - a free version of the MOSS Business Data Catalog. Now that solution proves even more enticing as Bamboo announces a Mashpoint API which serves to offer a REST-based interface to not only MashPoint, but to SharePoint itself.

And so it has started. The end of the year is upon us and everyone is thinking about what's ahead for 2009. Independent analyst firm CMS Watch has offered up their predictions for the coming year. If the results of how they faired with last year's predictions are any indication, we may all do well to pay attention. Like the 12 days of Christmas, CMS Watch has chosen to offer up 12 predictions for the technology world for 2009.

Content management, until very recently, has been a war zone. For a market that thrives on the efficient sharing of information, much has been done by vendors to put up barriers to ensure that should anyone decide to actually share content, they're faced with nothing but problems. Proprietarianism, like the analogous atom bomb, has nearly killed us all. Let's look at the evidence. Perhaps your content repository doesn't work with your portal software. Or you have disparate databases that - no matter how hard you try - refuse to see eye to eye. Or you dare to acquire another company that runs on a different platform altogether. Goodbye comfortable content publishing processes, hello proprietary migration hell.

It’s no secret that many organizations have invested time and money into setting up a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) environment expecting it to save them time and money. And it can make a huge difference. However, some organizations are not operating as efficiently as they could be when utilizing SharePoint for business process management (BPM) initiatives. “Automating Document-Centric Processes within SharePoint” Webinar by Mauro Cardarelli hopes to help attendees to understand how that can be changed.

“SharePoint is good at a number of things,” says one SharePoint expert, addressing a group of SharePoint users and followers here in Aarhus. “But it’s bad at just as many.”   There continues to be much discussion, debate, interest, enthusiasm, and caution about SharePoint (MOSS 2007). Such is the case here at jboye08 where I’m addressing the conference on the subject of Intranet 2.0 (today) and eHealth 2.0 (tomorrow).

“MOSS is very good for very good in smaller, workgroup environments,” says Alan Pelz-Sharpe, analyst, CMS Watch and his presentation on Evaluating SharePoint. “It’s not traditionally very good for 5,000 or 10,000 concurrent users.” CMS Watch’s approach / focus to evaluating MOSS:

It is possible that SharePoint (MOSS) could go down in history as one of the most popular enterprise content management systems ever (note: we aren’t saying the best, just the most popular). This may happen even though out of the box the platform lacks some critical enterprise features. MOSS backup and recovery functionality is one good example of this.

Out of the box, you can set up multiple secure access entries to your SharePoint sites — although it does require some work and thinking. Epok has come to table with their own access control solution — Epok® Edition for SharePoint version 2.4 — that they claim will help you provide better, secure access for your partners and business units. And it includes dynamic Microsoft Office integration.

Not content to just help manage content storage for SharePoint, ECM provider Open Text has come out with a new solution that will help SharePoint solve its Lifecycle Management issues. Called the Open Text Content Lifecycle Management Services for Microsoft® SharePoint®, eDOCS Edition, the solution was actually developed by SeeUnity Inc., an Open Text partner. You have a SharePoint installation, but as you know, it’s rather weak in terms of LifeCycle Management. Which isn’t really a good thing considering all the regulations, compliance and eDiscovery requirements your organization faces today.

Every day I am assaulted by a barrage of press releases, almost all of which contain nothing of interest. So it was a pleasant surprise to be hit early on a Monday morning by this one from Autonomy, "ControlPoint unveiled for Microsoft SharePoint information governance." In short the firm is releasing an updated system that they claim will provide wide records management capabilities across disparate and federated SharePoint environments. It is a system that builds on Autonomy's acquisition of Meridio technology in 2007. A closer look at this announcement reveals more in the way of federated records management than governance as such, providing a centralized RM policy hub to manage classification, preservation, and disposition of content assets. Governance is of course far more than this....but that's PR for you.

Mainsoft likes to integrate SharePoint and IBM Products. They’ve done it with IBM’s WebSphere Portal and with Lotus Notes. Today they are announcing that the Lotus Integration is going a few steps further covering more versions of the popular email client and Lotus Sametime. As you may or may not have heard, many organizations tend to have a mixed basket of Enterprise CMS solutions in house — thus the need for a CMIS specification. What you likely also know that this type of situation is not unique to content management — it also includes mixed technologies such as email clients like Lotus Notes and document management like SharePoint. Thus the need for a third party provider like Mainsoft to help solve these additional types of integration problems.

AvePoint, a provider of data protection and management solutions for SharePoint, has released DocAve 5.0, the newest version of its flagship MOSS infrastructure management software platform. The company boasts “groundbreaking new functionalities” in the release that was primarily focused around the enhanced user interface, brand new modules and “intelligent” SharePoint backup and recovery.

They are not the first to provide out-of-the box starter solutions for SharePoint, but BlueThread Inc and K2 have certainly put together an ECM bundle that has the full deal. Mind you, you have to buy their software and put it all together to make it work. BlueThread SmartDesk GUI It all starts with BlueThread’s SmartDesk end-user ECM application. This application is completely built on the Microsoft stack — specifically with SharePoint.

Other content management vendors have two choices when it comes to SharePoint — join it or beat it. The product is entrenched at the departmental level, nevertheless aspiring competitor, Alfresco, think they can uproot enough MOSS to make business sense of a full assault. Others seek harmony. Day Software is one of these. And their latest claim is that they can help SharePoint grow from department collaboration to enterprise content management.