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Clearview Software
Microsoft has recently entered the ECM market via their introduction of SharePoint 2007. With excellent core content services, SharePoint can provide a solid foundation for your ECM strategies. Next-generation ECM solutions, like Clearview, extend the core value of SharePoint with advanced functionality and enterprise-class ECM services such as document imaging, report management, and workflow/business process management. Check out our new white paper — The Value of SharePoint-based ECM Solutions — to explore the value of SharePoint 2007, its ECM capabilities, and how organizations can gain higher returns on their ECM investments when leveraging next-generation, SharePoint-based ECM solutions.
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Contributing Editor Showcase
Scaling SharePoint 2007: Storage Architecture
By Russ Houberg, KnowledgeLake
It is important to review the databases that will most directly impact the functional performance characteristics of SharePoint. This article will attempt to provide prescriptive guidance for implementing databases in the order of impact to SharePoint performance. |
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| Featured Articles |
| What's In It For Me? SharePoint And The Changing Face Of ECM
By James Thumma, Optical Image Technology
SharePoint, conventional ECM software, provides a back-end solution. Users are able to work in their familiar applications, and ECM works behind the scenes to provide storage, retrieval, automation, and connection to information that is housed within legacy applications. ECM offers a variety of ways to optimize business processes, and is surprisingly affordable even to smaller organizations. Unlike SharePoint, ECM provides significant benefits to organizations whose processes are still dependent — to some extent — on paper.
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| SharePoint — The Next Trojan Horse?
By Dr. Ian Howells, Alfresco Software
This article examines the rapidly changing requirements of content users within enterprises, the content as a service paradigm and the differences between proprietary and open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products, and why an organization might choose one over the other.
| | SharePoint And ECM Is "Integration" Really All You Need For Your Business?
By Mike Ball, Clearview Software
Many have ignored (and will continue to ignore) the impact SharePoint has had on dramatically changing the ECM solution model. The effects of this will likely be seen for many years to come. Legacy vendors, in a reactive mode and trying to respond to the unexpected disruption SharePoint has had in the ECM business community, are trying to position themselves as a higher-value, yet complementary (but at a higher price, of course) value add to SharePoint's core ECM capabilities.
| | Understanding ECM, What It Can Do For You, And Justifying The Cost
Enterprise content management (ECM) has been among the fastest growing sectors in technology for more than five years. The drivers continue to be on the rise in this compliance and regulatory environment, and return on investment (ROI) can easily be demonstrated. Why then is it still so difficult to gain buy-in and board approvals for ECM initiatives? According to the AIIM ECM Industry Watch in 2007, 29% of respondents indicated justifying the investment and gaining board approval was the biggest challenge; 28% said planning/managing the implementation and change management were the biggest challenge. Let's explore why that is and the best way to address these issues.
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SharePoint provides the full breadth of Content Management capabilities at a fraction of the cost of legacy ECM vendors. Coupled with the robust and proven Business Process Management (BPM) tools offered by K2.net, you'll have full control of your back-office operations. And by leveraging Capture and Imaging components, your company can securely store, manage, and view its paper-based content from any browser.
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The Fujitsu fi-6000NS Network Scanner is the first scanner that combines the intuitive, easy installation of a desktop scanner with the productivity of a network scanner.
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Daybreak eCapture For Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
eCapture for SharePoint is a distributed document capture application that enables users in disparate environments to scan documents directly to selected SharePoint content repositories in one step, from a single interface.
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Hyland OnBase Products from KeyMark
OnBase is a fully integrated enterprise content management (ECM) software suite used by nearly 6,000 mid-tier and Global 2000 enterprises to capture, route, manage, share, and archive high volumes of corporate information critical to business operations, audits and customer service.
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