Special ARMA IT Videocast: What IT Professionals Must Know About Records Management Capabilities in SharePoint

The 2011 AIIM survey shows that nearly 40% of respondents are now deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as an enterprise-wide Content Management (ECM) platform. The same respondents were also asked of their strategy for managing records using Microsoft SharePoint 2010. 35% of the respondents indicated that they had no long term preservation strategy, 25 % use it as a front end to an existing ECM system such as Open Text, EMC and IBM as they tend to have more robust and complete records management functionality, and only about 15% use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 native records management functionality. There may be several reasons for this – enhanced Records Management functionality is relatively new having been recently introduced in the 2010 release, implementation takes time to accelerate and to a large extent Microsoft SharePoint is still considered a collaborative platform that tends to augment already in place ECM systems. However, organizations are looking to consolidate their ECM platforms. Increasingly Microsoft SharePoint is considered a viable enterprise ECM solution. But just how robust is Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to support records management? To address this issue ARMA and Bruce Miller of www.rimtech.ca have collaborated in the development of a special videocast: What IT Professionals Must Know About Records Management capabilities in SharePoint 2010. The video can be accessed at  http://www.arma.org/IT/.