Ny blogg om Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Ny blogg från Microsoft om Enterprise Content Management, vilket för Microsofts del i praktiken innebär 2007 Office System och MOSS: Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog.

At Microsoft, we define ECM as a set of key functions enabled by Document Management, Records Management, Web Content Management, and Electronic Forms Management capabilities. Of course, any ECM solution requires a user interface, and in our model, that’s provided via a Microsoft Office client program or a Web browser. Then, there are the common services such as Search, Workflow, Collaboration, Security, Rights Management, and Auditing that all of the key functions utilize. Lastly, there are the data repositories in which content is stored.

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Making the solution much simpler and seamless for end user adoption has become a key tenet in the design of our products’ ECM capabilities. With the 2007 Office system, we have accomplished this in a couple of ways. First, all of the ECM functionality in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be accessed via popular Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari, which provide a familiar user interface for most end users. Second and perhaps more importantly, SharePoint Server has tight integration with the familiar Microsoft Office client products such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, which allows the user to initiate, complete, and track ECM tasks without ever leaving the application.

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