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04 March 2010
Microsoft is positioning the new coming SharePoint as an Enterprise Content Management. Microsoft's mantra is 'everyone participates and all content is managed,' but how far is SharePoint indeed ready to be an Enterprise Content Management?
Not being the expert on SharePoint 2010 myself, I like to refer to an article that I read from Andrew Chapman who is the Senior Director of the SharePoint Technologies Group in EMC’s Content Management and Archiving division and I what I thought was very informative. He gives a walk through the content management-centric features of SharePoint 2010, and let's you see what works, and what areas need improvement according to his own opinion. You can read his article here.
My interest was to see how far can SharePoint 2010 develop as a central content hub for an organization. More and more content is being created so a central place where you can easily find all aspects of your stored content and create an easy accessible knowledge base is becoming more and more important.
Andrew Chapman refers to this in his article: 'SharePoint 2010 does address some issues related to how to handle large volumes of data – the removal of some list size limitations and support for remote BLOB storage providers in SQL Server for example. However, rather than focusing primarily on the back-end scalability of the system it seems that Microsoft took a more user-centric approach to this challenge.' He mentions that Microsoft does not focus on the back-end scalability, but Microsoft does not have to as companies like us take care of that. If you want to read more about our SharePoint scalability solutions, please read this.
Always good to hear what others think of SharePoint 2010 being positioned as an Enterprise Content Management, so feel free to comment.
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