White Paper: KnowledgeLake Connect Microsoft SharePoint Integration For Any Application

By Ron Cameron

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies have emerged as a successful new breed of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. This whitepaper is aimed at organizations that have implemented SharePoint and are interested in creating even more information worker productivity through the use of clever new technology.

Today SharePoint is successful due to its low cost, extensive capabilities, and tight integration with Microsoft Office. Electronic document management capabilities are at the core of SharePoint and are the primary critical component of any successful ECM solution. This whitepaper will discuss the challenges with deploying production electronic document management and how KnowledgeLake Connect greatly enhances SharePoint's native ability to acquire and manage electronic content.

KnowledgeLake Connect is built around core SharePoint API's. This paper uses the term "SharePoint" as a broad definition for many forms of the same technology that KnowledgeLake Connect supports. KnowledgeLake Connect currently supports the following Microsoft products:

• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2003 (WSS 2.0)
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS)
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2007 (WSS 3.0)
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)
• Microsoft OfficeLive (MSOL)

Finally, this paper will describe to readers an easy solution from Fujitsu that allows users to enjoy many of the benefits of KnowledgeLake Connect when bundled with a Fujitsu document scanner.