In one of the more perplexing acquisitions I’ve seen in the Records and Information Management industry, Autonomy recently announced it was acquiring CA Technologies’ Information Governance division.  (Here’s industry analyst, Forrester’s early take on the deal.)  This means that Autonomy will now own – along with a few secondary applications – CA’s Records Manager solution. [...]

[This is the first installment of an occasional series of posts on this subject.] From the start, one of the primary goals of this blog has been to provide Records Managers with a better understanding of some of the critical technical issues they are likely to encounter while managing their records in a SharePoint environment.  [...]

Early last year when I created my SharePoint 2010 Records Management Wishlist, one of the first items I included on the list was a unique and persistent records identifier.  MOSS 07 used a document’s URL as its identifier, but this proved not only unwieldy (it was typically an enormous string of incomprehensible characters), it was [...]

Just a couple of quick observations from last weekend’s SharePoint Saturday in DC: Interest in SharePoint as an enterprise ECM/RM solution is exploding.  Big drivers behind this include ease of use, user acceptability, overall cost of deployment versus the other, more traditional vendors, a growing developer and system administrator base and, of course, high expectations [...]

Just a couple of quick observations from last weekend’s SharePoint Saturday in DC: Interest in SharePoint as an enterprise ECM/RM solution is exploding.  Big drivers behind this include ease of use, user acceptability, overall cost of deployment versus the other, more traditional vendors, a growing developer and system administrator base and, of course, high expectations [...]

I’ll be working the company booth at SharePoint Saturday DC on May 15th.  I’d love to talk to anyone interested in discussing SharePoint Records Management, so if you plan to attend, please let me know or just stop by our booth.  If you don’t plan to attend and you live in the DC area, you [...]

I just wanted to provide a quick view of the new SharePoint 2010 Records Center for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.  The first thing you will notice is how Microsoft has changed the appearance of the site to set it further apart from other SharePoint site templates and give it the look and feel [...]

Microsoft is promoting the new Records In Place functionality in SharePoint 2010 pretty heavily – and they should.  The ability to manage records in the locations they are originally created is a tremendously powerful new feature that can help enable true enterprise-wide records management.  Look here for more on Records In Place in the future. [...]

If you are going to AIIM 2010 in Philadelphia this week, be sure to drop by the Microsoft booth.  There will be a number of Product Managers and SharePoint development gurus there who would love to hear from you.  Here’s a link to their conference information.  Here, too. Commitments to customers back home prevent me [...]

In December of last year we spoke with Adam Harmetz, the Lead Program Manager for the SharePoint Document and Records Management engineering team at Microsoft, about some of the new records management features coming out in SharePoint 2010.  Response to that post has been overwhelming.  Adam has graciously agreed to sit down with us one [...]