Bring Your SharePoint Sites Under Control…
SharePoint has become one of the most popular, fastest-growing products ever shipped by Microsoft®. It’s designed to be easy to deploy and manage without significant IT involvement or expertise.
That’s the good news…the bad news is that the ease and convenience of SharePoint can create a security nightmare, especially if sensitive data winds up on the wrong site.
Key Features & Benefits
Know what SharePoint sites are in use – automatically locate and identify sites.
Determine who has access rights – Identify users and groups with access to the site and evaluate their permissions and access rights.
Identify security issues – Highlight users or groups with access rights that are inconsistent with corporate policy or industry best practices.
Correct deficiencies – Integration with Courion’s compliance solutions provides managers with the ability to quickly and effectively remediate permissions and inappropriate access rights.
Reduce or eliminate potential security risks – Verify that only users with the appropriate permissions have access to SharePoint sites containing sensitive data.
SharePoint Identity and Access Concerns
SharePoint is powerful, flexible and easy to implement, but it has a limited security and governance model.
Given the popularity of SharePoint, system administrators and security personnel have some thorny questions they need to answer:
What SharePoint sites are on our network and who owns them?
Who has access to these sites and what Permissions do they have?
Are sites with sensitive data are being managed using best practices consistent with the organization’s security policies?
How can I fix sites that are exposing the organization to security problems?
Protect Your SharePoint Sites
Courion, a leader in access management and compliance, has responded to customer’s needs by producing Courion Solutions for SharePoint, which gives IT managers the ability to analyze, evaluate and manage an organization’s exposure to risk as a result of inadequate SharePoint governance.
The solution is designed to enable system administrators to identify and reduce risk by remediating inappropriate access to SharePoint sites and bringing them into compliance with corporate policy. Using Courion, you can be assured that SharePoint users aren’t opening security holes and demonstrate to your auditors or industry regulators that you’re in compliance with corporate policy.
Courion Solutions for SharePoint can scan a SharePoint server and identify all the SharePoint sites on the server. For each site, the solution identifies all users who have access rights to the site. If the organization uses Active Directory, Courion also identifies users and groups who have been granted access to SharePoint sites through their Active Directory profile.
If the administrator determines that users have inappropriate rights to access data on a SharePoint site, he or she has the option to initiate a process to remediate those rights.
The administrator examining the SharePoint site can perform the following reviews:
Policy Review
This process allows the IT administrator to review a list of potential policy violations (such as a Finance portal with “Everyone” group access enabled). He or she can select a particular policy violation, evaluate the security implications of the violation and accept or modify the site configuration.
Privileged Access
The Privileged Access review allows the administrator to identify individuals with elevated SharePoint privileges (such as Administrator or Web Designer) and the sites where they are privileged access. If a user is identified as having inappropriate privileged access, action can be taken to either block the individual from accessing the site or reduce their permissions level.
Site Access
This workflow allows the IT manager to review a list of sites. After selecting a site, the manager sees a list of all users with access to the site, sorted by their permission level. At that point, the manager can select individual users and accept or modify their access rights to the site.
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Showing posts with label Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Courion Survey: Most Corporations Ignore Microsoft SharePoint Security and Data Risks
Courion Survey: Most Corporations Ignore Microsoft SharePoint Security and Data Risks
Courion Corporation
87% of Companies Cite SharePoint as a Source of Concern for Sensitive Data Leaks; Two Thirds Do Not Have Tools to Monitor and Control SharePoint Usage FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT: Courion(R) Corporation, leaders in access management and compliance, releases survey results revealing that while many organizations are adopting collaborative work environments such as Microsoft SharePoint to improve productivity, they are not effectively addressing the considerable security and compliance risks associated with these environments.
DETAILS: A survey of more than 150 business managers reveals that companies are largely unaware of what is happening within Microsoft SharePoint Environments. They do not know if sensitive data is being shared in these sites, who is using these sites, who has access to them and who needs access. And in many cases, companies do not even have acceptable use policies in place for SharePoint, nor is there anyone in the organization responsible for ensuring SharePoint security and compliance.
Key survey results include:
-- The majority of respondents (86.7%) cite SharePoint as a point of
concern for data theft.
-- More than one-third (33.8%) of respondents do not have a policy defining
acceptable usage for SharePoint.
-- More than 36% of companies do not currently monitor their SharePoint
usage.
-- Nearly two-thirds (62.7%) do not currently have tools in place to
monitor SharePoint usage, access or policy compliance
Courion recommends that organizations establish risk-based governance and controls in these environments to ensure long term security and compliance with business policy and industry regulations. System administrators and security personnel need to be able to answer the following questions:
-- What SharePoint sites are on our network and who owns them?
-- Who has access to these sites and what Permissions do they have?
-- Are sites with sensitive data being managed using best practices
consistent with the organization's security policies?
-- How can I fix sites that are exposing the organization to security
problems?
To download a copy of the survey report, please visit: http://www.courion.com/solutions/sharepoint.aspx
To arrange an interview with experts who can discuss SharePoint security and compliance issues, contact:
Brenda Menard
Davies Murphy Group
bmenard@daviesmurphy.com
781-418-2435
Courion Corporation
87% of Companies Cite SharePoint as a Source of Concern for Sensitive Data Leaks; Two Thirds Do Not Have Tools to Monitor and Control SharePoint Usage FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT: Courion(R) Corporation, leaders in access management and compliance, releases survey results revealing that while many organizations are adopting collaborative work environments such as Microsoft SharePoint to improve productivity, they are not effectively addressing the considerable security and compliance risks associated with these environments.
DETAILS: A survey of more than 150 business managers reveals that companies are largely unaware of what is happening within Microsoft SharePoint Environments. They do not know if sensitive data is being shared in these sites, who is using these sites, who has access to them and who needs access. And in many cases, companies do not even have acceptable use policies in place for SharePoint, nor is there anyone in the organization responsible for ensuring SharePoint security and compliance.
Key survey results include:
-- The majority of respondents (86.7%) cite SharePoint as a point of
concern for data theft.
-- More than one-third (33.8%) of respondents do not have a policy defining
acceptable usage for SharePoint.
-- More than 36% of companies do not currently monitor their SharePoint
usage.
-- Nearly two-thirds (62.7%) do not currently have tools in place to
monitor SharePoint usage, access or policy compliance
Courion recommends that organizations establish risk-based governance and controls in these environments to ensure long term security and compliance with business policy and industry regulations. System administrators and security personnel need to be able to answer the following questions:
-- What SharePoint sites are on our network and who owns them?
-- Who has access to these sites and what Permissions do they have?
-- Are sites with sensitive data being managed using best practices
consistent with the organization's security policies?
-- How can I fix sites that are exposing the organization to security
problems?
To download a copy of the survey report, please visit: http://www.courion.com/solutions/sharepoint.aspx
To arrange an interview with experts who can discuss SharePoint security and compliance issues, contact:
Brenda Menard
Davies Murphy Group
bmenard@daviesmurphy.com
781-418-2435
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
SharePoint Proving a Goldmine for Microsoft Partners
About 80 percent of businesses are expected to be using SharePoint by 2010, according to Gartner. That means for the Microsoft channel community, SharePoint is a potential goldmine, a repeat revenue generator, and customer relationship builder – if you get it right.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Microsoft SharePoint gets search, file sharing features
Add-ons let users search on document images and securely extend file creation and sharing across corporate boundaries.
John Fontana (Network World) 30/09/2008 09:11:00
Data capture vendor Captaris and security software developer Epok had developed add-ons to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 that let users search on document images and securely extend file creation and sharing across corporate boundaries.
Captaris, best known for its RightFax software for distributing faxes, recently introduced the TIFF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
The iFilter takes an image, scans it using optical character recognition (OCR) technology, and then stores it in SharePoint along with all its meta data. The resulting file is then available for discovery by SharePoint's search engine.
IFilter components are used by Microsoft Indexing Service and other Microsoft Search-based products, such as SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange Full Text Search and SQL Server FTS.
Captaris, which is in the process of being acquired by OpenText, thinks paper-centric industries benefit the most from its TIFF iFilter such as insurance, governments, health care and financial services.
The iFilter supports Windows Server 2003 and 2008 and works on both 32- and 64-bit versions of the Windows OS, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server.
The Captaris TIFF iFilter comes in three editions: Standard (for two core systems), Pro (four core systems) and Enterprise (unlimited cores).
Standard is priced starting at US$299. Pro starts at $499, and Enterprise pricing will be announced before the end of the year.
SharePoint is Microsoft's fastest growing enterprise software in its history and the company counts 100 million licenses and more than a US$1 billion in revenue, according to figures released this summer. The platform also is attracting third-party vendors driven to plug some of the gaps in the platform.
Earlier versions of SharePoint had support for TIFF images, but it was dropped in the 2007 version of SharePoint. Microsoft released a Filter Pack for SharePoint in Dec. 2007, and specifically made apologies for the absence of the TIFF filter in the release.
Experts have also said that SharePoint has gaps in its access control story.
Epok in particular is attacking that need with an update to its cross-organization access management software called Epok Edition for SharePoint version 2.4. The platform extends user authentication to a company's partners.
The 2.4 version breaks the restriction that only a user within a SharePoint domain can use Microsoft Office to create, edit, and then save documents directly into SharePoint.
Epok extends that capability to any Office user in any domain as long as they have the needed access rights.
The upgrades also include a reporting system that can show such facts as who has access to a document and when the document expires. And a mouse over feature on user icons shows additional access details and expiration dates.
Epok can automatically enforce those expiration data on a user's access to certain documents while maintaining the user's overall access rights.
"SharePoint is creating a control problem and what we see is a huge demand wave for extranet access," says Nigel Simmons, vice president of product management.
Epok also takes maintenance of permissions for access controls out of the hands of IT and put them in the hands of business users.
In addition, the system can be configured to require users to view and/or acknowledge certain contractual obligations related to data such as non-disclosure agreements.
The Epok Edition for SharePoint version 2.4 is priced at US$25,000 per server.
John Fontana (Network World) 30/09/2008 09:11:00
Data capture vendor Captaris and security software developer Epok had developed add-ons to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 that let users search on document images and securely extend file creation and sharing across corporate boundaries.
Captaris, best known for its RightFax software for distributing faxes, recently introduced the TIFF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
The iFilter takes an image, scans it using optical character recognition (OCR) technology, and then stores it in SharePoint along with all its meta data. The resulting file is then available for discovery by SharePoint's search engine.
IFilter components are used by Microsoft Indexing Service and other Microsoft Search-based products, such as SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange Full Text Search and SQL Server FTS.
Captaris, which is in the process of being acquired by OpenText, thinks paper-centric industries benefit the most from its TIFF iFilter such as insurance, governments, health care and financial services.
The iFilter supports Windows Server 2003 and 2008 and works on both 32- and 64-bit versions of the Windows OS, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server.
The Captaris TIFF iFilter comes in three editions: Standard (for two core systems), Pro (four core systems) and Enterprise (unlimited cores).
Standard is priced starting at US$299. Pro starts at $499, and Enterprise pricing will be announced before the end of the year.
SharePoint is Microsoft's fastest growing enterprise software in its history and the company counts 100 million licenses and more than a US$1 billion in revenue, according to figures released this summer. The platform also is attracting third-party vendors driven to plug some of the gaps in the platform.
Earlier versions of SharePoint had support for TIFF images, but it was dropped in the 2007 version of SharePoint. Microsoft released a Filter Pack for SharePoint in Dec. 2007, and specifically made apologies for the absence of the TIFF filter in the release.
Experts have also said that SharePoint has gaps in its access control story.
Epok in particular is attacking that need with an update to its cross-organization access management software called Epok Edition for SharePoint version 2.4. The platform extends user authentication to a company's partners.
The 2.4 version breaks the restriction that only a user within a SharePoint domain can use Microsoft Office to create, edit, and then save documents directly into SharePoint.
Epok extends that capability to any Office user in any domain as long as they have the needed access rights.
The upgrades also include a reporting system that can show such facts as who has access to a document and when the document expires. And a mouse over feature on user icons shows additional access details and expiration dates.
Epok can automatically enforce those expiration data on a user's access to certain documents while maintaining the user's overall access rights.
"SharePoint is creating a control problem and what we see is a huge demand wave for extranet access," says Nigel Simmons, vice president of product management.
Epok also takes maintenance of permissions for access controls out of the hands of IT and put them in the hands of business users.
In addition, the system can be configured to require users to view and/or acknowledge certain contractual obligations related to data such as non-disclosure agreements.
The Epok Edition for SharePoint version 2.4 is priced at US$25,000 per server.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
HostReview : Web Hosting Guides : Apps4Rent: Why Windows SharePoint Services?
HostReview : Web Hosting Guides : Apps4Rent: Why Windows SharePoint Services?
Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need.
Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
SharePoint: Improving Performance : Beyond Search
SharePoint: Improving Performance : Beyond Search
In my opinion, SharePoint is a slow poke. Among the reasons:
SQL Server bottlenecks
My old pal IIS
Churning when complex pages experience latency because needed data are scattered far and wide across the SharePoint landscape.
In what has to be the most amazing description of sluggish performance, Microsoft has released SharePoint Performance Optimization: How Microsoft IT Increases Availability and Decreases Rendering Time of SharePoint Sites . This is a 27 page Word document, which I was able to download here.
I scanned the white paper. I did not dig through it. The good stuff appears after the boilerplate about how to find out what part of the SharePoint system is the problem. In my experience, it’s not “one part”. Performance issues arise when there are lots of users, complex “sites”, and when some of the other required servers are tossed into the stew.
A happy quack to Nick MacKechnie who pointed to this Microsoft white paper in his Web log here.
Stephen Arnold, September 23, 2008
In my opinion, SharePoint is a slow poke. Among the reasons:
SQL Server bottlenecks
My old pal IIS
Churning when complex pages experience latency because needed data are scattered far and wide across the SharePoint landscape.
In what has to be the most amazing description of sluggish performance, Microsoft has released SharePoint Performance Optimization: How Microsoft IT Increases Availability and Decreases Rendering Time of SharePoint Sites . This is a 27 page Word document, which I was able to download here.
I scanned the white paper. I did not dig through it. The good stuff appears after the boilerplate about how to find out what part of the SharePoint system is the problem. In my experience, it’s not “one part”. Performance issues arise when there are lots of users, complex “sites”, and when some of the other required servers are tossed into the stew.
A happy quack to Nick MacKechnie who pointed to this Microsoft white paper in his Web log here.
Stephen Arnold, September 23, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Improve Your Collaboration with Microsoft® SharePoint®-based Solutions
Improve Your Collaboration with Microsoft® SharePoint®-based Solutions
Information sharing, both inside and outside the enterprise, continues to be a challenge for many organizations. BearingPoint believes that distributed information management supported by a centralized management infrastructure can help address this issue. We have been collaborating with Microsoft for nearly 10 years; we’re building on that experience to create enterprise information solutions based on Microsoft® SharePoint® technology.
Microsoft® SharePoint® provides a framework that can help improve:
- Collaboration
- Business intelligence
- Business processes
- Content management
- Search capabilities
SharePoint® -based solutions can help organizations manage information seamlessly across their enterprise. This technology facilitates collaboration and distributed project management by supporting central deployment of the infrastructure needed to create and support cross-enterprise activities. The technology is non-intrusive and integrates with desktop applications. However, it is also far reaching in terms of supporting the complex workflows and information sharing that communities of interests require.
BearingPoint consultants can combine SharePoint® with other core Microsoft technologies to create customized solutions that provide rich security, document management and collaboration features. And SharePoint® -based applications can grow as your organization grows and evolves.
Learn more about SharePoint®-based Solutions. Contact Us
Information sharing, both inside and outside the enterprise, continues to be a challenge for many organizations. BearingPoint believes that distributed information management supported by a centralized management infrastructure can help address this issue. We have been collaborating with Microsoft for nearly 10 years; we’re building on that experience to create enterprise information solutions based on Microsoft® SharePoint® technology.
Microsoft® SharePoint® provides a framework that can help improve:
- Collaboration
- Business intelligence
- Business processes
- Content management
- Search capabilities
SharePoint® -based solutions can help organizations manage information seamlessly across their enterprise. This technology facilitates collaboration and distributed project management by supporting central deployment of the infrastructure needed to create and support cross-enterprise activities. The technology is non-intrusive and integrates with desktop applications. However, it is also far reaching in terms of supporting the complex workflows and information sharing that communities of interests require.
BearingPoint consultants can combine SharePoint® with other core Microsoft technologies to create customized solutions that provide rich security, document management and collaboration features. And SharePoint® -based applications can grow as your organization grows and evolves.
Learn more about SharePoint®-based Solutions. Contact Us
Monday, September 15, 2008
Who will be the new king of CRM?
Who will be the new king of CRM?
By Geoff Nairn
Published: September 15 2008 14:29 | Last updated: September 15 2008 14:29
While the debate about hosted or on-premise customer relationship management software rages, Oracle claims to offer the best of both worlds. Its Oracle CRM On Demand Integration to Siebel CRM product synchronises customer data held in Oracle CRM On Demand – Oracle’s home-grown on-demand CRM offering – with Siebel CRM, which Oracle owns after acquiring Siebel Systems in 2005.
Siebel remains the undisputed king for traditional on-premises CRM but most of the growth in the CRM industry now comes from newer on-demand CRM providers such as Salesforce.com.
Improved world view
IBM has unveiled new software to help businesses make sense of their product data. InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Server aims to provide a “single view” of all the information held on a product across geographic locations. Big Blue also added a global name recognition module for InfoSphere Information Server to improve name matching for businesses that operate in many countries.
Small and affordable
Dell is targeting small businesses in emerging markets with the four latest additions to its Vostro range of PCs launched in Beijing.
Affordability is the key selling point of the Vostro A860 and A840, two laptops that come with 15.6-inch or 14.1-inch HD screens, Celeron or Core 2 Duo processors and a choice of operating system – Ubuntu Linux or Windows Vista. There are also two desktop mini-towers, the Vostro 180 and A100 – interestingly the latter only comes with Ubuntu.
Virtual security gates
Internet security firm Check Software Technologies has introduced a virtual security gateway aimed at the growing number of businesses with virtualised IT environments.
VPN-1 Virtual Edition is optimised for VMware environments and provides similar levels of security for virtualised applications to those located on separate servers, the company claims. Pricing starts at $7,500 for five virtual machines.
Aid to compliance
Microsoft has teamed up with BearingPoint – KPMG Consulting as was – to offer a compliance product based on Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007. BearingPoint Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance helps organisations manage risk and compliance using alerts and analytical tools.
For example, if a key risk indicator is exceeded, e-mail alerts are triggered and employees guided through the necessary steps.
Red flag for danger
EMC aims to address the growing problem of identity theft with a solution comprising software and services. The catalyst for the new offering is the Facta regulations in the US which require organisations to put in place policies and procedures to address the risk of identity theft in a systematic fashion by detecting warning signs or “red flags”. EMC’s Facta Red Flags product is designed to help financial institutions and creditors meet the November 1 Facta deadline.
“Powered by Google”
Google has announced a new version of the Google Search Appliance, which integrates hardware and software is aimed at organisations that want to add a “powered by Google” sticker to their corporate intranet or website.
The appliance can index all of an organisation’s content, up to 10m documents, in a single box. It can also search the information held on leading content management systems such as EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink and Microsoft SharePoint.
Siren call of open source
System management is the latest part of the software business to succumb to the advances of the open source movement. Fujitsu Siemens has announced that its Primergy servers can now be managed and monitored with the Nagios open source software suite.
Specialist outfit Netways has developed a downloadable plug-in that allows Nagios to monitor Fujitsu Siemens’ hardware for a wide range of variables such as network services, server resources and system temperature.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
By Geoff Nairn
Published: September 15 2008 14:29 | Last updated: September 15 2008 14:29
While the debate about hosted or on-premise customer relationship management software rages, Oracle claims to offer the best of both worlds. Its Oracle CRM On Demand Integration to Siebel CRM product synchronises customer data held in Oracle CRM On Demand – Oracle’s home-grown on-demand CRM offering – with Siebel CRM, which Oracle owns after acquiring Siebel Systems in 2005.
Siebel remains the undisputed king for traditional on-premises CRM but most of the growth in the CRM industry now comes from newer on-demand CRM providers such as Salesforce.com.
Improved world view
IBM has unveiled new software to help businesses make sense of their product data. InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Server aims to provide a “single view” of all the information held on a product across geographic locations. Big Blue also added a global name recognition module for InfoSphere Information Server to improve name matching for businesses that operate in many countries.
Small and affordable
Dell is targeting small businesses in emerging markets with the four latest additions to its Vostro range of PCs launched in Beijing.
Affordability is the key selling point of the Vostro A860 and A840, two laptops that come with 15.6-inch or 14.1-inch HD screens, Celeron or Core 2 Duo processors and a choice of operating system – Ubuntu Linux or Windows Vista. There are also two desktop mini-towers, the Vostro 180 and A100 – interestingly the latter only comes with Ubuntu.
Virtual security gates
Internet security firm Check Software Technologies has introduced a virtual security gateway aimed at the growing number of businesses with virtualised IT environments.
VPN-1 Virtual Edition is optimised for VMware environments and provides similar levels of security for virtualised applications to those located on separate servers, the company claims. Pricing starts at $7,500 for five virtual machines.
Aid to compliance
Microsoft has teamed up with BearingPoint – KPMG Consulting as was – to offer a compliance product based on Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007. BearingPoint Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance helps organisations manage risk and compliance using alerts and analytical tools.
For example, if a key risk indicator is exceeded, e-mail alerts are triggered and employees guided through the necessary steps.
Red flag for danger
EMC aims to address the growing problem of identity theft with a solution comprising software and services. The catalyst for the new offering is the Facta regulations in the US which require organisations to put in place policies and procedures to address the risk of identity theft in a systematic fashion by detecting warning signs or “red flags”. EMC’s Facta Red Flags product is designed to help financial institutions and creditors meet the November 1 Facta deadline.
“Powered by Google”
Google has announced a new version of the Google Search Appliance, which integrates hardware and software is aimed at organisations that want to add a “powered by Google” sticker to their corporate intranet or website.
The appliance can index all of an organisation’s content, up to 10m documents, in a single box. It can also search the information held on leading content management systems such as EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink and Microsoft SharePoint.
Siren call of open source
System management is the latest part of the software business to succumb to the advances of the open source movement. Fujitsu Siemens has announced that its Primergy servers can now be managed and monitored with the Nagios open source software suite.
Specialist outfit Netways has developed a downloadable plug-in that allows Nagios to monitor Fujitsu Siemens’ hardware for a wide range of variables such as network services, server resources and system temperature.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
Friday, September 05, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
CleverWorkarounds » Book Review - Essential SharePoint 2007
CleverWorkarounds » Book Review - Essential SharePoint 2007
One SharePoint book on my bookshelf is "Essential SharePoint 2007 - Delivering High Impact Collaboration", by Scott Jamison, Mauro Cardarelli and Susan Hanley.
One SharePoint book on my bookshelf is "Essential SharePoint 2007 - Delivering High Impact Collaboration", by Scott Jamison, Mauro Cardarelli and Susan Hanley.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Alfresco Releases An Open Source SharePoint Compatible Alternative - Content Management Blog - InformationWeek
Alfresco Releases An Open Source SharePoint Compatible Alternative - Content Management Blog - InformationWeek
Alfresco, whose open source enterprise content management (ECM) software has earned it a significant following, is making more waves with the release this week of Alfresco Labs 3, an open source alternative to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) SharePoint.
Alfresco, whose open source enterprise content management (ECM) software has earned it a significant following, is making more waves with the release this week of Alfresco Labs 3, an open source alternative to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) SharePoint.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Bamboo Solution's Bundles Extend SharePoint Functionality - Content Management Blog - InformationWeek
Bamboo Solution's Bundles Extend SharePoint Functionality - Content Management Blog - InformationWeek
Bamboo Solutions is probably a familiar name to the IT staffs at enterprises running SharePoint. The company made headlines in couple of months ago when it released information on how to run SharePoint on a Vista box, but it's also one of the best known and most successful vendors of plug-in modules intended to enhance SharePoint's base functionality.
Bamboo Solutions is probably a familiar name to the IT staffs at enterprises running SharePoint. The company made headlines in couple of months ago when it released information on how to run SharePoint on a Vista box, but it's also one of the best known and most successful vendors of plug-in modules intended to enhance SharePoint's base functionality.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Microsoft SharePoint Popularity Comes with Issues
Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 may be taking off in the enterprise, but the software doesn't come without holes, warts and a variety of other issues that need to be addressed in any corporate deployment.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
SharePoint in the Enterprise
Where does Microsoft's ECM tool fit within the overall context of an organization's ECM strategy?
May/June 2008
— Russ Edelman
It should not surprise you to hear that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has proven to be the biggest phenomena in enterprise content management, bar none. While some may argue that it is not fully baked, organizations around the world are aggressively implementing SharePoint 2007 for global projects and doing so with large volumes of content.
The observations in this article come from both first-hand experience and conversations with many people who are affected by SharePoint’s unstoppable growth. Evan Richman, Microsoft’s global ECM product manager for SharePoint, comments, “The popularity of SharePoint has even surprised Microsoft. It is clear that SharePoint represents the first truly collaborative ECM platform and, as such, offers a unique value proposition in the marketplace. Traditional ECM solutions are designed to address specific business needs that impact a small percentage of information assets with a low percentage of the workforce participating. In comparison, SharePoint 2007 has been designed to drive broad information worker participation in ECM. It enables organizations to manage previously unmanaged content, thus maximizing the value of an organization’s information assets while supporting broadening compliance challenges.”
Understandably, Richman’s perspective may be interpreted as one with a slight bit of bias. However, Gartner research vice president Toby Bell reinforces Richman’s comments, “SharePoint has risen to become the top search term across Gartner and is generating huge inquiries from our clients.” Bell added, “What is uniquely different about SharePoint 2007 in comparison to its predecessors and other ECM systems is that the business community has become highly vocal and active in pursuing SharePointbased solutions.”
As an additional point of validation, Doculabs’ ECM industry guru, Jeetu Patel, has had similar experiences as the Doculabs team counsels global organizations with their ECM strategies. Patel added, “Earlier versions of SharePoint were dismissed as departmental solutions. In comparison, SharePoint 2007 is now being incorporated into the fabric of international organizations’ ECM infrastructure. These strategies are being driven by either pure SharePoint-based solutions or co-existence strategies that allow SharePoint and legacy ECM systems to live harmoniously together.”
Two Fundamental Paths with SharePoint 2007
Patel’s comments suggest the two primary paths that are being followed by most organizations regarding SharePoint. The first path is followed by organizations that have no existing ECM systems in place. The second path is traveled by organizations that do employ existing ECM systems. In each case there are distinct advantages and disadvantages that must be recognized and addressed. However, regardless of the path chosen, there are also a number of common issues that must be considered in order to achieve the desired outcome. These are summarized in the table on page 48.
Path 1 – SharePoint Only
Despite every ECM practitioners’ hopes, ECM technologies are still not employed and actively used in most organizations around the world. However, the introduction of SharePoint 2007 has served as a powerful catalyst of awareness for the benefits of ECM and this message has been acknowledged by a much broader community than in the past. In fact, despite the competitive concerns introduced to all of the existing ECM vendors, most would be quick to point out that SharePoint has moved ECM to center stage as a strategic investment.
Given the raised awareness of SharePoint 2007, many companies are now considering or implementing the tool as a first step into the world of ECM. While the move into ECM is applauded, it is important that those organizations have a clear understanding of the challenges as well as the benefits. Beyond the summary in the table, there are a number of important factors that should be taken into account when SharePoint is the only ECM platform deployed.
Strategic Initial Successes – While this point isn’t specific to SharePoint, it is appropriate to highlight as many organizations implement SharePoint in a broad capacity during initial deployment. Such a broad approach creates a higher probability of partial or complete failure. Why? First, SharePoint offers a broad set of capabilities. If the functionality is not clearly understood, users are confused and the value is diminished. Second, SharePoint is very easy to initially install and configure. However, when broader requirements must be considered, more planning is typically necessary to ensure that the system is properly optimized. Third, a strong communications strategy is necessary to ensure that users understand the capabilities; that the project’s success is carefully tracked; and that problems are immediately resolved.
WSS vs. MOSS – Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is the free version of SharePoint that accompanies every version of Windows Server 2003 and greater. It provides a rich set of capabilities for departments or smaller organizations and, as mentioned above, can be installed and configured with relative ease. In comparison, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is the paid-for-version of SharePoint and offers a much richer set of capabilities for the enterprise. Consequently, understanding the differences and which platform is right for your organization will become very important. In some cases, organizations have elected to use a hybrid of WSS and MOSS. When this path is chosen, take the time to understand the implications of a joint approach.
Governance and Standards – SharePoint’s popularity, to a large degree, has been driven by business people who were able to immediately stand up the product and begin using it. While this grassroots movement is a clear indication of the product’s popularity and value, it also has the potential to introduce challenges around standardization and governance. When deploying Share- Point, it will be important to solidify a governance and standards strategy and that strategy should be designed to evolve as the use of the product evolves.
3rd Party Product Usage – Despite SharePoint’s extensive capabilities, we are regularly reminded that the product does not solve every problem. By design, Microsoft recognized that it would be able to provide a broad and deep level of functionality; however, it would not be able to incorporate every feature request into the offering. As a result, the voids that were left open have been and continue to be filled by 3rd party vendors. With Share- Point 2007, there is an active community of 3rd party vendors; a benefit for the vendors and their customers. However, careful thought should be given regarding the use of certified partners and the balance of 3rd party products versus customizations. In some cases, organizations would have to rely upon a large number of 3rd party vendors for discreet pieces of functionality. In those cases, companies have trended towards relying upon a smaller number of 3rd party vendors for substantive functionality (imaging, search, co-existence) and then developing a few customizations for the simpler requests. This lessens the dependency upon a larger number of the 3rd party vendors.
Path 2 – Coexistence
Given the readership of this publication, most of you will probably need SharePoint to coexist with an existing system. That said, the issues raised regarding Path 1 remain applicable as you stride down the coexistence path—with a few extra issues. The coexistence path is actually comprised of two intertwined sub-paths. First, there is often a genuine need for SharePoint to exist with the existing ECM systems. Second, some coexistence strategies are temporary in nature with the ultimate goal of migrating some or all existing ECM systems to SharePoint. In either case, there are a collection of considerations that should be anticipated when planning an effective coexistence strategy (the items below are common, but do not comprise an exhaustive list).
“Surfacing” Existing ECM Repositories – The notion of “surfacing” an existing ECM repository in SharePoint has become widely accepted as a common approach for allowing users to retrieve files from the existing ECM system through a SharePoint interface. However, surfacing capabilities will vary considerably depending upon the techniques selected. In some capacities, most or all of the functionality will be made available in a secured fashion from the existing ECM system. In other cases, surfacing is nothing more than a read-only view into the existing ECM system that allows for the display of search results and the file. Of course there are variants between the two extremes.
For example, SeeUnity is dedicated to providing this capability as well as migration tools that allow for content to be migrated from the existing ECM systems into SharePoint. Dan Anderson, co-founder and vice president of SeeUnity comments, “Our dualprong approach has allowed companies to leverage the capabilities of the existing ECM systems without having to rush through the migration. This allows for their clients to control a migration to SharePoint, if that is the desired objective.” With prior versions of SharePoint, existing ECM vendors didn’t pay much attention to a co-existence strategy. However, with SharePoint 2007’s unprecedented success, they quickly saw the writing on the wall and either partnered with companies like SeeUnity or developed their own surfacing solution. Now, many ECM vendors see SharePoint as the front end to their backend and they do so through surfacing.
Functionality Coexistence between SharePoint and Existing ECM Systems – Two factors are impacted by this consideration. First, because SharePoint still has some gaps in its capabilities in comparison to existing ECM products, you must take appropriate steps to address the disparities in functionality. For example, a few ECM systems allow for version level security and SharePoint has a broader security model that allows for security at the major and minor levels. If users have become accustomed to a different security model, you’ll need to ensure that SharePoint security will be sufficient and that there are differences between the two models.
Second, content from either SharePoint or the existing ECM system (or both) often needs to be referenced in the other product’s workflow or some other module. For example, a press release in SharePoint may need to rely upon a workflow within the existing ECM system. To accommodate this the respective products must be integrated to support such requirements. As more of the existing ECM vendors fully recognize the emergence of SharePoint, they are aggressively building these types of integrations. It is also worth noting that one of the common integration points being employed is that of the existing ECM repository being used for records management.
Migrations to SharePoint – As referenced earlier, co-existence typically includes some type of migration of content from the existing ECM system to SharePoint. For those unfamiliar with migrating between ECM systems, be prepared for an experience that is more involved than you might imagine. Factors that need to be considered include the timing and sequencing of the migration, metadata mapping when there are variances between the metadata, and the stratification of content in SharePoint to accommodate site structures as compared to one or a few centralized repositories. This does not take any of the testing and training into account that accompanies migrations.
To wrap up, it will be important to discern fact from fiction as you speak to people about SharePoint 2007. With SharePoint’s popularity, many new people have entered the fray. In general, this is good. However, it also introduces a challenge or two. First, if the only exposure they’ve had to ECM is SharePoint, they may be out of touch with the many nuances and issues associated with a successful ECM project. Part of this problem is that they look at SharePoint as pure infrastructure as compared to a complete ECM solution. Additionally, everyone is claiming to be a SharePoint expert these days; with certifications and without. Make sure you go through a diligent qualification process to understand the extent of their capabilities and to determine if they have development expertise against the SharePoint object model as compared to administration/configuration experience. It makes a difference!
--Russ Edelman(russ.edelman@corridorconsulting.com) is president and CEO of Corridor Consulting (www.corridorconsulting.com ). A frequent speaker and industry expert, Russ is also chair of AIIM’s Emerging Technology Advisory Group.
May/June 2008
— Russ Edelman
It should not surprise you to hear that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has proven to be the biggest phenomena in enterprise content management, bar none. While some may argue that it is not fully baked, organizations around the world are aggressively implementing SharePoint 2007 for global projects and doing so with large volumes of content.
The observations in this article come from both first-hand experience and conversations with many people who are affected by SharePoint’s unstoppable growth. Evan Richman, Microsoft’s global ECM product manager for SharePoint, comments, “The popularity of SharePoint has even surprised Microsoft. It is clear that SharePoint represents the first truly collaborative ECM platform and, as such, offers a unique value proposition in the marketplace. Traditional ECM solutions are designed to address specific business needs that impact a small percentage of information assets with a low percentage of the workforce participating. In comparison, SharePoint 2007 has been designed to drive broad information worker participation in ECM. It enables organizations to manage previously unmanaged content, thus maximizing the value of an organization’s information assets while supporting broadening compliance challenges.”
Understandably, Richman’s perspective may be interpreted as one with a slight bit of bias. However, Gartner research vice president Toby Bell reinforces Richman’s comments, “SharePoint has risen to become the top search term across Gartner and is generating huge inquiries from our clients.” Bell added, “What is uniquely different about SharePoint 2007 in comparison to its predecessors and other ECM systems is that the business community has become highly vocal and active in pursuing SharePointbased solutions.”
As an additional point of validation, Doculabs’ ECM industry guru, Jeetu Patel, has had similar experiences as the Doculabs team counsels global organizations with their ECM strategies. Patel added, “Earlier versions of SharePoint were dismissed as departmental solutions. In comparison, SharePoint 2007 is now being incorporated into the fabric of international organizations’ ECM infrastructure. These strategies are being driven by either pure SharePoint-based solutions or co-existence strategies that allow SharePoint and legacy ECM systems to live harmoniously together.”
Two Fundamental Paths with SharePoint 2007
Patel’s comments suggest the two primary paths that are being followed by most organizations regarding SharePoint. The first path is followed by organizations that have no existing ECM systems in place. The second path is traveled by organizations that do employ existing ECM systems. In each case there are distinct advantages and disadvantages that must be recognized and addressed. However, regardless of the path chosen, there are also a number of common issues that must be considered in order to achieve the desired outcome. These are summarized in the table on page 48.
Path 1 – SharePoint Only
Despite every ECM practitioners’ hopes, ECM technologies are still not employed and actively used in most organizations around the world. However, the introduction of SharePoint 2007 has served as a powerful catalyst of awareness for the benefits of ECM and this message has been acknowledged by a much broader community than in the past. In fact, despite the competitive concerns introduced to all of the existing ECM vendors, most would be quick to point out that SharePoint has moved ECM to center stage as a strategic investment.
Given the raised awareness of SharePoint 2007, many companies are now considering or implementing the tool as a first step into the world of ECM. While the move into ECM is applauded, it is important that those organizations have a clear understanding of the challenges as well as the benefits. Beyond the summary in the table, there are a number of important factors that should be taken into account when SharePoint is the only ECM platform deployed.
Strategic Initial Successes – While this point isn’t specific to SharePoint, it is appropriate to highlight as many organizations implement SharePoint in a broad capacity during initial deployment. Such a broad approach creates a higher probability of partial or complete failure. Why? First, SharePoint offers a broad set of capabilities. If the functionality is not clearly understood, users are confused and the value is diminished. Second, SharePoint is very easy to initially install and configure. However, when broader requirements must be considered, more planning is typically necessary to ensure that the system is properly optimized. Third, a strong communications strategy is necessary to ensure that users understand the capabilities; that the project’s success is carefully tracked; and that problems are immediately resolved.
WSS vs. MOSS – Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is the free version of SharePoint that accompanies every version of Windows Server 2003 and greater. It provides a rich set of capabilities for departments or smaller organizations and, as mentioned above, can be installed and configured with relative ease. In comparison, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is the paid-for-version of SharePoint and offers a much richer set of capabilities for the enterprise. Consequently, understanding the differences and which platform is right for your organization will become very important. In some cases, organizations have elected to use a hybrid of WSS and MOSS. When this path is chosen, take the time to understand the implications of a joint approach.
Governance and Standards – SharePoint’s popularity, to a large degree, has been driven by business people who were able to immediately stand up the product and begin using it. While this grassroots movement is a clear indication of the product’s popularity and value, it also has the potential to introduce challenges around standardization and governance. When deploying Share- Point, it will be important to solidify a governance and standards strategy and that strategy should be designed to evolve as the use of the product evolves.
3rd Party Product Usage – Despite SharePoint’s extensive capabilities, we are regularly reminded that the product does not solve every problem. By design, Microsoft recognized that it would be able to provide a broad and deep level of functionality; however, it would not be able to incorporate every feature request into the offering. As a result, the voids that were left open have been and continue to be filled by 3rd party vendors. With Share- Point 2007, there is an active community of 3rd party vendors; a benefit for the vendors and their customers. However, careful thought should be given regarding the use of certified partners and the balance of 3rd party products versus customizations. In some cases, organizations would have to rely upon a large number of 3rd party vendors for discreet pieces of functionality. In those cases, companies have trended towards relying upon a smaller number of 3rd party vendors for substantive functionality (imaging, search, co-existence) and then developing a few customizations for the simpler requests. This lessens the dependency upon a larger number of the 3rd party vendors.
Path 2 – Coexistence
Given the readership of this publication, most of you will probably need SharePoint to coexist with an existing system. That said, the issues raised regarding Path 1 remain applicable as you stride down the coexistence path—with a few extra issues. The coexistence path is actually comprised of two intertwined sub-paths. First, there is often a genuine need for SharePoint to exist with the existing ECM systems. Second, some coexistence strategies are temporary in nature with the ultimate goal of migrating some or all existing ECM systems to SharePoint. In either case, there are a collection of considerations that should be anticipated when planning an effective coexistence strategy (the items below are common, but do not comprise an exhaustive list).
“Surfacing” Existing ECM Repositories – The notion of “surfacing” an existing ECM repository in SharePoint has become widely accepted as a common approach for allowing users to retrieve files from the existing ECM system through a SharePoint interface. However, surfacing capabilities will vary considerably depending upon the techniques selected. In some capacities, most or all of the functionality will be made available in a secured fashion from the existing ECM system. In other cases, surfacing is nothing more than a read-only view into the existing ECM system that allows for the display of search results and the file. Of course there are variants between the two extremes.
For example, SeeUnity is dedicated to providing this capability as well as migration tools that allow for content to be migrated from the existing ECM systems into SharePoint. Dan Anderson, co-founder and vice president of SeeUnity comments, “Our dualprong approach has allowed companies to leverage the capabilities of the existing ECM systems without having to rush through the migration. This allows for their clients to control a migration to SharePoint, if that is the desired objective.” With prior versions of SharePoint, existing ECM vendors didn’t pay much attention to a co-existence strategy. However, with SharePoint 2007’s unprecedented success, they quickly saw the writing on the wall and either partnered with companies like SeeUnity or developed their own surfacing solution. Now, many ECM vendors see SharePoint as the front end to their backend and they do so through surfacing.
Functionality Coexistence between SharePoint and Existing ECM Systems – Two factors are impacted by this consideration. First, because SharePoint still has some gaps in its capabilities in comparison to existing ECM products, you must take appropriate steps to address the disparities in functionality. For example, a few ECM systems allow for version level security and SharePoint has a broader security model that allows for security at the major and minor levels. If users have become accustomed to a different security model, you’ll need to ensure that SharePoint security will be sufficient and that there are differences between the two models.
Second, content from either SharePoint or the existing ECM system (or both) often needs to be referenced in the other product’s workflow or some other module. For example, a press release in SharePoint may need to rely upon a workflow within the existing ECM system. To accommodate this the respective products must be integrated to support such requirements. As more of the existing ECM vendors fully recognize the emergence of SharePoint, they are aggressively building these types of integrations. It is also worth noting that one of the common integration points being employed is that of the existing ECM repository being used for records management.
Migrations to SharePoint – As referenced earlier, co-existence typically includes some type of migration of content from the existing ECM system to SharePoint. For those unfamiliar with migrating between ECM systems, be prepared for an experience that is more involved than you might imagine. Factors that need to be considered include the timing and sequencing of the migration, metadata mapping when there are variances between the metadata, and the stratification of content in SharePoint to accommodate site structures as compared to one or a few centralized repositories. This does not take any of the testing and training into account that accompanies migrations.
To wrap up, it will be important to discern fact from fiction as you speak to people about SharePoint 2007. With SharePoint’s popularity, many new people have entered the fray. In general, this is good. However, it also introduces a challenge or two. First, if the only exposure they’ve had to ECM is SharePoint, they may be out of touch with the many nuances and issues associated with a successful ECM project. Part of this problem is that they look at SharePoint as pure infrastructure as compared to a complete ECM solution. Additionally, everyone is claiming to be a SharePoint expert these days; with certifications and without. Make sure you go through a diligent qualification process to understand the extent of their capabilities and to determine if they have development expertise against the SharePoint object model as compared to administration/configuration experience. It makes a difference!
--Russ Edelman(russ.edelman@corridorconsulting.com) is president and CEO of Corridor Consulting (www.corridorconsulting.com ). A frequent speaker and industry expert, Russ is also chair of AIIM’s Emerging Technology Advisory Group.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Microsoft Sharepoint wird strategische Plattform und bedrängt IBM - Produkte + Technik - Software - computerwoche.de
Microsoft Sharepoint wird strategische Plattform und bedrängt IBM - Produkte + Technik - Software - computerwoche.de
Microsoft Sharepoint wird strategische Plattform und bedrängt IBM
Seite 1 von 628.03.2008
Mit "Sharepoint Server" liefert Microsoft Unternehmen ein Werkzeug für viele Zwecke, vom Erzeugen kollaborativer Applikationen bis zum Bau von Internet-Sites. Das Produkt dümpelte lange Zeit vor sich hin, könnte sich aber zu einer der wichtigsten Lösungen des Konzerns entwickeln.
Zwar ist Sharepoint nicht neu, doch erst mit der Version 2007 scheint das Produkt so richtig abzuheben. "Ich habe nichts Vergleichbares gesehen, seitdem Lotus Notes auf den Markt gekommen ist", so Mike Gotta, Analyst beim Beratungs- und Marktforschungsunternehmen Burton Group gegenüber der amerikanischen CW-Schwesterzeitschrift "Network World". Als das heutige IBM-Produkt vor vielen Jahren auf den Markt kam, schienen die Möglichkeiten der neuen Technik grenzenlos. Geht es nach dem Analysten, dann zeigen sich Firmen heute vom Microsoft-System begeistert: "Unternehmen messen Sharepoint eine strategische Bedeutung bei und nehmen das Produkt als Middleware wahr", so der Analyst weiter.
Microsoft Sharepoint wird strategische Plattform und bedrängt IBM
Seite 1 von 628.03.2008
Mit "Sharepoint Server" liefert Microsoft Unternehmen ein Werkzeug für viele Zwecke, vom Erzeugen kollaborativer Applikationen bis zum Bau von Internet-Sites. Das Produkt dümpelte lange Zeit vor sich hin, könnte sich aber zu einer der wichtigsten Lösungen des Konzerns entwickeln.
Zwar ist Sharepoint nicht neu, doch erst mit der Version 2007 scheint das Produkt so richtig abzuheben. "Ich habe nichts Vergleichbares gesehen, seitdem Lotus Notes auf den Markt gekommen ist", so Mike Gotta, Analyst beim Beratungs- und Marktforschungsunternehmen Burton Group gegenüber der amerikanischen CW-Schwesterzeitschrift "Network World". Als das heutige IBM-Produkt vor vielen Jahren auf den Markt kam, schienen die Möglichkeiten der neuen Technik grenzenlos. Geht es nach dem Analysten, dann zeigen sich Firmen heute vom Microsoft-System begeistert: "Unternehmen messen Sharepoint eine strategische Bedeutung bei und nehmen das Produkt als Middleware wahr", so der Analyst weiter.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm
Microsoft's SharePoint Server is on a billion-dollar quest to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites and potentially handing Microsoft its next cash cow.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 [Computerwoche Wiki]
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 [Computerwoche Wiki]
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) ist eine datenbankbasierte Plattform mit der sich robuste, webbasierte Zusammenarbeits-, Intranet-, Extranet- oder Internetportale realisieren lassen.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) ist eine datenbankbasierte Plattform mit der sich robuste, webbasierte Zusammenarbeits-, Intranet-, Extranet- oder Internetportale realisieren lassen.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
ECM-Anbieter tummeln sich im Sharepoint-Umfeld
ECM-Anbieter tummeln sich im Sharepoint-Umfeld
Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007, kurz MOSS, ist die neue Version der Portal-Software aus dem Hause Microsoft, die im Vergleich zur Vorgängerversion, die noch unter dem Namen Sharepoint Portal Server lief, erhebliche Fortschritte gemacht hat. Auf Grund der massiven Weiterentwicklung positioniert Microsoft selber den MOSS jetzt als ECM-Plattform.
Nimmt man die Definition zu ECM von AIIM, so stellt man fest, dass der derzeitige MOSS mit den Hauptkomponenten Capture, Output, Delivery, Store und Preserve nichts zu tun hat. Bei den Managementkomponenten deckt er die Bereiche Dokumenten-Management, Records-Management, Web-Content-Management sowie schwerpunktmäßig Collaboration ab.
Der Einsatz von Sharepoint-Lösungen scheint sich auszubreiten, es ist eine deutliche Zunahme der Nachfrage im Markt zu spüren, obwohl die Microsoft Lösung bekanntlich einige Lücken aufweist. Gleichzeitig haben immer mehr ECM-Hersteller Produkte im Angebot, die diese Lücken, zumindest im Bereich der Archivierung, zu schließen versuchen. Dieser Artikel versucht einen Überblick über vorhandene Lösungen, offene Punkte und weitere Möglichkeiten der Integration mit Sharepoint zu geben.
Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007, kurz MOSS, ist die neue Version der Portal-Software aus dem Hause Microsoft, die im Vergleich zur Vorgängerversion, die noch unter dem Namen Sharepoint Portal Server lief, erhebliche Fortschritte gemacht hat. Auf Grund der massiven Weiterentwicklung positioniert Microsoft selber den MOSS jetzt als ECM-Plattform.
Nimmt man die Definition zu ECM von AIIM, so stellt man fest, dass der derzeitige MOSS mit den Hauptkomponenten Capture, Output, Delivery, Store und Preserve nichts zu tun hat. Bei den Managementkomponenten deckt er die Bereiche Dokumenten-Management, Records-Management, Web-Content-Management sowie schwerpunktmäßig Collaboration ab.
Der Einsatz von Sharepoint-Lösungen scheint sich auszubreiten, es ist eine deutliche Zunahme der Nachfrage im Markt zu spüren, obwohl die Microsoft Lösung bekanntlich einige Lücken aufweist. Gleichzeitig haben immer mehr ECM-Hersteller Produkte im Angebot, die diese Lücken, zumindest im Bereich der Archivierung, zu schließen versuchen. Dieser Artikel versucht einen Überblick über vorhandene Lösungen, offene Punkte und weitere Möglichkeiten der Integration mit Sharepoint zu geben.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Open Text Extends Alliance With Microsoft, Announces New Comprehensive Solution for Law Firms
News - Open Text Corporation
Open Text Extends Alliance With Microsoft, Announces New Comprehensive Solution for Law Firms
New Offering Enables Law Firms To Utilize Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Matter Lifecycle Management, While Mitigating Legal and Compliance Risks
Open Text Extends Alliance With Microsoft, Announces New Comprehensive Solution for Law Firms
New Offering Enables Law Firms To Utilize Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Matter Lifecycle Management, While Mitigating Legal and Compliance Risks
Sunday, April 01, 2007
ECM mit dem SharePoint Server 2007
ECM mit dem SharePoint Server 2007
Interview mit Darius Mahmoudi, Senior Solutions Sales Professional der Microsoft Deutschland GmbH. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des DOK.magazin.
Interview mit Darius Mahmoudi, Senior Solutions Sales Professional der Microsoft Deutschland GmbH. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des DOK.magazin.
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