Enterprise Content Management

Townsville City Council,  the local government body located on Queensland’s north coast, is guarding against disaster with the adoption of a clod-based knowledge management solution from Australia’s livepro.

A three year project to utilise SharePoint 2010 to integrate enterprise content management with a rejuvenated intranet at Airways NZ got off to a shaky start when disaster struck.

Kodak has announced a new enterprise capture system built on SharePoint 2010 and designed to help businesses automate workflow processes, known as Info Activate.

There are many challenges to implementing SharePoint, both seen and unseen. As a result there are plenty of pitfalls and traps to fall into, and it is very challenging to pick just 10 mistakes.  Poor governance, not having an intranet strategy, or not having an intranet committee are traditional mistakes, but hopefully there is more awareness about these issues now. Marcus Dervin, director of Sydney SharePoint/Office 365 consultancy WebVine. focusses on more specific issues that are are often overlooked, but can derail a SharePoint project team’s best intentions.

ECM has gone mobile at Ricoh Australia. The firm is providing a growing number of staff with access to business related information while they are off-site or travelling using Laserfiche Mobile for iPad and iPhone.

Last week James Milne began his examination of why  failed SharePoint projects have become so commonplace they are referred to as another, ‘‘SharePoint Shipwreck’’. In Part II he examines some more strategies to avoid being sunk. 

The Australian Department of Defence has undertaken field trials to deploy Microsoft SharePoint into their tactical theatre. The tests have specifically focused on deploying SharePoint within a low and unstable bandwidth environments and the initial results are extremely positive.

Anbul Technologies has developed a Document Assembly platform for HP TRIM and SharePoint that can be used individually or in a combined deployment to compile standard documents, letters, forms, contracts in Microsoft Word.

NewsGator has unveiled a new release of its Social Sites software that is compatible with both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 offering a redesigned user interface called Lookout that provides intelligent information streams and more user control over how enterprise information is consumed.

Two major public sector organisation in New Zealand, the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) and Ministry of Transport (MoT), have issued a joint tender for enterprise search across SharePoint and other information repositories.

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