8 Ways SharePoint 2010 Moves Toward “ECM for the Masses”

1 — Traditional ECM Capabilities

Traditional ECM vendors have generally focused on solutions for a targeted set of users within the enterprise such as information managers and records managers. Microsoft’s goal of “ECM for the Masses” is about changing the landscape of ECM to provide capability and access to the wealth of information across the enterprise as a whole. The 2007 product introduced the first set of “out of the box” Records Management features and integrated the Web Content Management capabilities that were previously in their Content Management Server product line. When you combine these features with the strength of the collaboration platform, the ease of use, and the integration with the Office client applications, Microsoft had the basis for an ECM platform that could span the enterprise and provide tools to end users that would cross the entire content lifecycle. Even still, the product had its limitations. Enter SharePoint 2010…

Recognizing that most large organizations have implemented more than one ECM product, Microsoft teamed up with other large ECM vendors (including IBM, EMC, Alfresco, OpenText, SAP, and Oracle) to define an ECM standard called Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS). The goal of CMIS is to define a standard for interaction between ECM products. This will allow the enterprise to surface and act on content in a broader way regardless of where the content actually resides. CMIS 1.0 entered OASIS public review on October 23, 2009. Microsoft announced that they will support CMIS in SharePoint 2010.

2 — Taking the “Tax” out of Taxonomy and Metadata

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