Blog category: Document & records management

April 28, 2011 by James Robertson

Planning your SharePoint intranet project

Starting a SharePoint intranet project, whether creating a new intranet or redeveloping an existing one, can be daunting. Alongside strategy and design questions are now a myriad of technology decisions, often exploring uncharted territory within the organisation. At a basic level, intranets based on SharePoint are just like every other intranet. The same questions of [...]

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May 11, 2010 by James Robertson

CMIS – an important standard for buyers of ECM

Alan Pelz-Sharpe writes about CMIS. To quote: CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Specification) has been ratified as a standard by OASIS. What is it and what does it mean to buyers and users of ECM and Document Management technology? Well put simply, CMIS is the most important new standard in the ECM world in decades; it [...]

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February 11, 2010 by James Robertson

It is document management from here on in…

Alan Pelz-Sharpe writes about CMS Watch’s shift from “ECM” to “document management”. To quote: ECM is an aspirational term for many, one that suggests a single layer/platform/system/methodology that will address your enterprise content needs no matter how complex, diverse, or voluminous. Some major vendors promote this approach, and buyers for such systems also exist, but [...]

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January 22, 2010 by James Robertson

Recordkeeping’s hill to climb

I’ve just spent the last two days helping an Australian government agency develop their web CMS requirements. As one might expect, the topic of recordkeeping came up, and how it should relate the CMS and intranet. I also had a long conversation at the end of the first day with the records manager, who is [...]

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June 9, 2009 by James Robertson

Recordkeeping and Toastmasters

Last week I met up with a former CIO of a local council in Queensland. We’ve done work together on-and-off over a number of years, and he’d recently moved into a new job in Sydney. He shared a number of stories about the work they’d been doing up in Queensland, and this one really stood [...]

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