That’s a tip I picked up from Bob Larravee during my AIIM ECM Master class . Understanding the process well enough to know how to anticipate records management requirements and to accommodate them in SharePoint’s configuration and workflows is something I learned during AIIM’s ERM Master Class
Having spent most of my career working with structured data, I was initially happy to see that the ECM project plan presented at the AIIM ECM Master class, looked a lot like a systems development project plan
They put those speakers in a room full of vendors and end-users and to keep things interesting and moving at a lightening pace, they put us all under the command of Thornton May. Thorton is a master of engaging the audience, but not by just making an interesting presentation
All of those information workers that are now a part of the SharePoint community have always had a consistent source, the source of ECM best practices since 1943: AIIM
Steve Weissman’s (current title: Minister of Process & Information Betterment for Holly Group) knowledge of ECM is both wide and deep
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” There is some truth to that statement, and in the world of systems development, I could almost get away with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude – most business applications are required to conduct business. ECM is different. People still see most content management processes as optional
When we talk about retention periods with respect to ECM and ERM, we are usually focused on process
3 Comments - I particularly enjoyed the section on archiving as it relates to ECM and what is defined as content management within the spectrum of information management
I recently had the opportunity to speak to a group of people at the University of Connecticut about ECM and SharePoint. One of the things people tell me that they like about my presentations, and my SharePoint Stories blog, is that I include the things that didn’t go according to plan
WidgetCo has just rolled out SharePoint basic functionality for their collaboration and ECM needs. They're planning on adding workflow functionality through their " incremental functionality release " plan
Here is what I saw related to records management at the AIIM Show in Philadelphia: SharePoint 2010 was clearly in ascendance. The ECM Suite competitors were either barely visible as ECM players or trumpeting their abilities in the SharePoint 2010 “embrace and extend SharePoint” camp. This gave the AIIM Show a 1995 “best of breed” feel because Microsoft has not tried to aggregate the full set of capabilities for ECM and RM into a single platform
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