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GimmalSoft Achieves (DoD) 5015.2 Certification

By on September 29, 2011 in Content Management, Document Management, Records Management, SharePoint 2010

After a long and arduous process, the GimmalSoft Compliance Suite has finally received the coveted Department of Defense 5015.02 certification, making it the only certified RMS built on the SharePoint 2010 platform.  What does this mean for the rest of us?
Well, for one thing, it means that companies will no longer have to purchase multiple [...]

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Interesting Discussion of the Impact of SP2010 on other ECM Players

By on March 23, 2010 in Content Management, Microsoft Corporation, Records Management

A few days ago, John Mancini, president of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), posted a rather loaded discussion question on the AIIM Linked-In group.  The question was “How will SharePoint 2010 effect the existing ECM players?”.  It quickly generated responses from a broad spectrum of people, many of whom are either employed [...]

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Interesting Perspective on how SharePoint is Capturing the ECM Market

By on March 3, 2010 in Content Management, Microsoft Corporation

Technorati Tags: ECM,SharePoint
Check out this postby Lee Dallason why he thinks Microsoft has been so successful in redefining ECM around the capabilities of the SharePoint platform.  To put it simply, it’s because of a brilliant marketing strategy and not because of SharePoint itself.
Dallas boils it down to three key points:

Microsoft focused on solving [...]

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New PowerShell Script Simplifies Content Migration into SharePoint 2007 and 2010

By on December 15, 2009 in Content Management, Records Management

Mattias Wollnik from Microsoft has created a nifty PowerShell script that makes it much easier to move content from file shares into SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 beta sites.   The FCI SharePoint Uploadscript is based on the File Classification Infrastructure(FCI) provided by Windows Server 2008 R2.  The FCI allows administrators to setup policies that control [...]

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New Book on Records Management Development

By on October 30, 2009 in Content Management, Records Management, SharePoint Development

It's kind of surreal, but the day has finally arrived when I can say "it's done"! My new book, Professional SharePoint 2007 Records Management Development:
Managing Official Records with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is on its way to store shelves and is available directly from Wiley.com, Amazon.com and other online retailers.

  This book is for [...]

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A Special Tribute to Albert Einstein – The Father of ECM

By on January 6, 2009 in Content Management

E=MC^2 is probably the most famous equation in modern science, but little is known about its true origins. At least I didn’t know much about it until very recently. Of course, I understood, like everyone else, that it was formulated as part of professor Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, but I never really thought about [...]

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JOG Meeting Reminder for September 2008: Enterprise Content Management – Document Retention

By on September 16, 2008 in Content Management, SharePoint Development, User Groups

Thursday, September 18th, 2008; 6p-8p
Bank of America, Building 500, 9000 Southside Blvd; 2nd Fl; Sea Oats Rm
Map: Meeting Logistics
RSVP: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=130639

Enterprise Content Management – Document Retention
Document retention is an important part of content management.  SharePoint provides out-of-the-box support for managing document retention using the built-in expiration policy feature of the information management policy framework.  The built-in [...]

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Microsoft, IBM and EMC Announce new Enterprise Content Management Interoperability Specification

By on September 11, 2008 in Content Management

There is a new standards effort in the works that promises to unify the disparate ECM platforms currently available into a common set of interfaces.  The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification is the result of a collaboration between Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Alfresco, OpenText, SAP and Oracle.  Click here to download a preview copy of [...]

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Announcing MOSS 2007 ECM Developer Training

By on September 7, 2008 in Content Management, Records Management, SharePoint Development, SharePoint Training

Let's face it, SharePoint is a huge development platform no matter what angle you approach it from.   As most of you know, I've spent the past year or so traveling and teaching SharePoint developer courses for the Ted Pattison Group, and my focus has been pretty broad, covering topics ranging from features to content types [...]

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Write Your CAML Queries in C# using CAML.NET

By on January 1, 0001 in Content Management, SharePoint Development

I’m always on the lookout for ways to work smarter, not harder. When developing SharePoint solutions, that means finding ways to reduce the overall “surface area” of the platform so I don’t have to spend so much time on the little details. You know – the things that should have taken only a few minutes [...]

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