Blueskies Review of Document Management Software and Microsoft SharePoint Integration

A document management whitepaper prepared by an independent consulting company.

Click here to read the entire Microsoft SharePoint Integration with FileHold Document Management Software whitepaper. The following is an excerpt from the paper:

Document Management and SharePoint Introduction

Interest in SharePoint from my clientele is very high at this time and was stated by Bill Gates
as being Microsoft’s most successful platform launch.  As an independent consultant I
prepared this white paper as an overview of SharePoint and FileHold document
management software (www.filehold.com) and how co-existence can help provide a ‘best of
both worlds’ approach that satisfies most if not all business requirements. 
With all its success, caution needs to be taken so as not to repeat the mistakes many
organizations made when they deployed Lotus notes and content repositories proliferated.
“Going Viral” is great for Facebook and YouTube but not for enterprise content.
Centralization of content management into a “System of Record” is critical. A system of
record is an information repository that is the authoritative source for a given piece of
information. The need of the system of record is acute as workers collaborate to create
content for a specific business use. Often the integrity of the data is vital and the validity is
open to question when it is not auditable or traceable. 
There are many versions of SharePoint and enterprise decision-makers first need to fully
understand the various versions and functions to avoid buying more than the enterprise
requires. Next they need to consider the Total Cost of Ownership of implementing
advanced content management on a SharePoint platform. Lastly, thought should be given to
ongoing deployment and administration. With FileHold and SharePoint companies can now
afford to adopt advanced Content Management across the entirety of the business
enterprise.