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Case Studies and White Papers

  • National Grid is one of the world’s largest utility companies, safely delivering energy around the world in a reliable and efficient system. To address the requirements of its legal department, National Grid chose SharePoint as its document management system, and, to address the specific need to manage emails along with other case-related documents in SharePoint, chose the Contributor Add-In for Outlook. The Contributor Add-In makes it easy for National Grid’s legal staff to move emails from Outlook to SharePoint, while automatically capturing email metadata to organize and store case-related emails and documents. It also provides legal staff with offline access to SharePoint content when away from the office.

  • Webcor Builders is one of California’s largest commercial builders. Using SharePoint and Colligo Email Manager, Webcor project teams have improved collaboration and organization, saving time and money. Colligo Contributor Uploader made it easy for staff to move important project related emails and attachments from Outlook to SharePoint, and helped to improve the adoption and ease-of-use of SharePoint for email records management.

  • The pace with which information management is evolving has enabled the viral spread of SharePoint. SharePoint has become a fixture; some would say a quick fix. However, the "big picture" still looms. It does not offer a long-term strategic path that enables organizations to capitalize on the value of information while meeting increasingly strict information governance and compliance requirements. Discover how to fill the gaps and turn SharePoint into a competitive advantage.

  • Is your IT department aligned with your business goals?  Use the SharePoint assessment tool and find out. This new tool provides an enterprise-wide view of your SharePoint environment. It outlines critical information and defines an immediate plan of action as well as a long term road map for creating a structured approach to building a SharePoint solution that meets business objectives.

News and Information

  • Correctly implemented and operated, a SharePoint system can bring your company huge benefits in collaboration, content control and compliance improvement. As a first step to optimizing your SharePoint installation, let us take you through the Health-Check Wizard.
  • 76% plan to add third-party software to their SharePoint installation to refine ECM capability.
  • New virtual conference to address how to use social technologies to engage customers and empower staff -- and how to set up required governance and control
  • Before consulting on any SharePoint project, a little detective work on the IT department can really pay off. One reason for this is that SharePoint has the reputation for being a "disruptive" technology. Let's deconstruct what this term means with respect to IT office politics before getting to the wrecking strategy detailed below.

Industry Research

  • This year’s ECM report shows a much more mature user-base, integrating existing and new ECM and RM suites, SharePoint portals and vertical-market add-ons, into genuinely universal information access and content management infrastructures. Users are keen to attack content chaos and drive cost reductions, but are also looking for more effective staff collaboration and engagement.  We measured how well ECM systems are matching industry-specific needs, what are the most popular strategies for integration, and how is SharePoint fitting in.

  • In many organizations, SharePoint deployment is speeding ahead with little thought to the information management implications of documents stored within its libraries and team sites. In other businesses there is confusion as to how SharePoint is utilized alongside existing document management and ECM systems.

    In this report we measure the take up of SharePoint, its utilization for traditional ECM applications, strategies for integration, and use of third party add-on applications. We also provide advice for those implementing SharePoint based on the experiences of over 500 existing users from the AIIM community.

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Daniel Antion

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