Why will my users care about upgrading to SharePoint 2010? — I thought I would discuss some of the key reasons I see for upgrading to SharePoint 2010. For now, I’m going to stay away from the behind the scenes items such as scalability and focus more on the end user perspective. All about the metadata – This is a bit of a passion of mine. I’ll go into more detail here in a later post. From managed terms and keywords to the term store and tagging, the features are intuitive, simpler to manage and easier to re-use. For now, I’ll just say that your… What’s upfront is what counts — Ok, you’re probably thinking, what’s he talking about, the front of what? Well I’ll tell you it is what we do upfront – in advance – as part of the ECM, ERM, SharePoint or any project that makes all the difference between success and expectations not being met. Companies look at ECM and all of the associated technologies as the solution but in reality if we do not take time to assess, plan and then implement, we will not get our desired results. I have heard from some in…

MoReq2010 Progress — Just in time for its meeting in Brussels starting tomorrow, the DLM Forum published yesterday (Sunday 14 November 2010) a newsletter about MoReq2010. It explains that the MoReq2010 consultation draft will be published on 16 November (or maybe 18 November, depending on which page you read); and that an online seminar has just been launched (or will be launched in Brussels, depending on which page you read; it has in fact been available on the ARMA website for a couple of weeks). RIM to drive up the value of Time Capsules? — Earlier this week I attended the 55 th Annual ARMA Conference and Expo, and as always happens, I find myself inspired by what I saw, heard and learned. Interestingly however, and perhaps due to my earlier post about my anthropological academic background, I found my mind wandering a bit … and perhaps a bit subversively. Let me explain. For as much as good RIM is about retaining information to meet compliance obligations, to facilitate productivity and to generate competitive advantage, it’s also… Handling Language Dependencies in eDiscovery, Records Management when using Content Analytics — Foreign language texts contain a lot of hidden information, making multilingual…

Enterprise 2.0 is a journey, not a big jump — Yesterday evening, Oscar Berg wrote a great post about socializing business processes , giving four reasons why organizations should care about that. I’ve been working on a similar post for a few days so, as Oscar already said a lot, I’ll just add one more reason : Because employees (unconsciously) often want you to start with that. One of the biggest changes brought by enterprise 2.0 is the ability for employees to identify each other, build communties where they could share their experience,… Time to socialize your business processes? — From the early 90s to the late 90s, in parallel to my studies in Computer Science and Business at the university, I developed client-server software for the Windows platform for a network of BPO and TQM consultants. It gave me a solid understanding the core components of an enterprise and how these components relate, but it also opened my eyes to how hard it is to make people collaborate across business functions even in quite small organizations. My job was essentially to design and develop… Be an Effective E2.0 Architect – Know your Inhabitants — A friend of mine is…

We currently have a project underway in our Capture and Imaging Community to gather customer perspectives and ratings on Capture software. There are two action items here… 1 — If you are a capture vendor or reseller, you would be crazy not to get your customers to chime in by sending them the link below. 2 — If you are a capture USER, now is the time to chime in — just click on THIS LINK. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BA5ADJ57B CAPTURE SURVEY AIIM Scanning and Capture Community Some recent capture posts that may be of interest… Everything the iPad isn’t: ILINX Tablet is everything the iPad isn’t. This could summarize the announcement of the ILINX Tablet by ImageSource at Nexus 2010 . During his keynote on Enterprise Mobility on the second day of the company’s annual flagship ECM event, Chief Technology Officer Shadrach White dropped the news. Yes, a new report shows that Apple enjoys a 95% market share in the tablet market. So, why would a company like ImageSource enter in a market dominated by a behemoth like Apple? Apple has always been an innovator… Now a few words about Microform Scanning: With all the emphasis on the paperless office and paper…