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• SharePoint Optimization Wizard
  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.
• SharePoint Users Look to Add-On Applications for Content Management Needs
  76% plan to add third-party software to their SharePoint installation to refine ECM capability.
• AIIM Announces Social Business Conference Agenda and Speakers
  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
• 8 Ways IT Politics Can Wreck a SharePoint Project
  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.
• 8 More Things You Need to Know About SharePoint
  You already knew this, but strong user preferences for SharePoint sites translate into value in many ways. SharePoint is intuitive, especially after you learn your first SharePoint application. SharePoint provides much more familiarity and consistency through its user interface than competing applications. SharePoint makes it easy to build and administer sites for many types of user groups.
• Leverage the Power of SharePoint with Cloud Solutions
  If you’re challenged to take SharePoint to the next level or uncertain how you can use SharePoint to quickly support document and business processes across the enterprise, you’re not alone. The risks and challenges will certainly continue as SharePoint 2010 enters the scene. Drawing on real-world case studies, the webinar will demonstrate how the Cloud enables you to quickly deliver content management process applications and support business initiatives without capital expense and long project timelines.
• SharePoint Surge Continues but Strategies are Lacking
  Survey shows implementations of Microsoft SharePoint generally go ahead without a formal business plan, and with confusion about where and how it is to be used.
• 8 Things to Consider When Choosing an Application to Scan and Capture Documents to SharePoint
  #1 - Do you need a scanning application or a capture application? The marketplace is filled with applications that provide a means to convert paper to digital form. If all you need to do is load paper and scan to a document library, and your volume is fairly light, scanning applications provide a simple, easy to use interface for these types of operations.
• 8 Ways SharePoint Helps in Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance
  #1 -- Learn how to manage risks and compliance. Managing business risk and achieving regulatory compliance are among the greatest challenges that enterprises face. There is increasing pressure to comply with evolving legislation, mandates, standards and regulations designed to protect against an array of risks that span different industries, disciplines, governments and geographies.
• AIIM and Gimmal Partner with Document Strategy Forum to Produce SharePoint Practitioner Certificate Course, Track and Pavilion
  The annual conference and exposition continues to provide high-level education and strategies for the transactional document and customer communications industry.
• 8 Capture and Search Strategies for SharePoint
  There are many methods of Capture and Search that have been refined to allow users to find the right information they're looking for in traditional document management. Below are eight (8) methods that are useful in SharePoint. Some of them are common to all document management systems and some are specific to SharePoint only.
• 8 Things to do to Make Content More Findable in SharePoint
  SharePoint supports document searching out-of-the box, but with some simple customizations, you can greatly improve the findability of documents.
• 8 Things to Consider when Implementing SharePoint with Another ECM Engine
  #1 -- Determine SharePoint’s role in the organization. For some companies, SharePoint is the chosen collaboration and social networking engine and all collaborative content resides in SharePoint. For others, SharePoint is more of an end-user experience and Intranet platform. If implementing SharePoint with another ECM solution, it is important to truly identify what role SharePoint will have in the organization to ensure proper planning for the implementation.
• 8 Things SharePoint 2010 Needs to Be a True ECM System
  #1. Persistent links. The single biggest shortcoming of SharePoint 2007 is the inability to link directly to a unique object ID. One of the greatest benefits of ECM systems is the ability to send content via a link rather than relying on email attachments.
• 8 Things You Need to Know about SharePoint Governance
  It shouldn’t be a big surprise that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) is incredibly popular and powerful as a basic content repository. Microsoft claimed $1 billion in revenue from sales of the software in 2007. A recent survey by AIIM (State of the Market: Microsoft SharePoint) indicates that SharePoint is indeed rapidly becoming pervasive within the enterprise. Of those responding to the survey, 83% said they either currently use or likely will be using Microsoft SharePoint.