Just a couple of quick comments off the top of my head:
I became certain that SharePoint was the future of Enterprise Content Management (and so Records Management, as well)
when I walked into my first day on a massive Documentum deployment project a couple of years ago and asked the customer how his team was managing the material associated with the project. He said, ‘Oh, we’re doing it all through SharePoint sites my IT staff setup.’ Perplexed, I responded, ‘Wait, you’re managing the content for your Documentum content management project in SharePoint?’ Totally missing the irony, he said, ‘Yeah, SharePoint is a great product, and it’s so cheap and easy to use!’
And speaking of irony, not a few readers have pointed out that I am writing a SharePoint Records Management blog and not posting it to a SharePoint site. Touché, my friends. Well played.
But, to be fair, the irony has never really escaped me. In my defense, I host this blog at WordPress.com (who I highly recommend, by the way) because it has proven reliable and it doesn’t cost anything. I have used the blogging features in SharePoint and like them very much; I just can’t find a reliable SharePoint hosting service that I can use that won’t charge me an arm and a leg.
Finally, a quick update. I’ve been in contact with our friend, Adam Harmetz of Microsoft and Adam has agreed to continue the SharePoint 2010 Records Management conversation we started last December. We haven’t set a firm date yet, but I would expect to see a new post with additional interview material sometime over the next couple of weeks…
February 1, 2010 at 6:07 pm
This is kind of a random question, but I was wondering if there would be any future commentary on the Nintex Compliance Suite for SP2010?
Thoroughly enjoy the blog, great work.
February 2, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Matt,
Thanks for the kind words. It’s nice to know our work is appreciated.
I have no experience with any of the Nintex products, so I haven’t ever had a chance to evaluate them. I know Nintex plans to release a compliance tool for SharePoint 2010 sometime around the time SharePoint 2010 comes out, but I haven’t seen any information on it.
Let us know if you get a chance to test it out. I’m sure our readers would love to hear your thoughts on it.
Regards,
Don
February 4, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Will you please ask Adam to address users that want to use 2010 but require 5015.2 compliance. At the conference he was vague about future plans for certification compliance. Should we expect a partner to release an other add-on pack? Should we go it alone and develop our own solution on top of 2010 and manage certification ourselves with DoD? I know he’s getting this question constantly.
Great blog by the way, hit me offline with contact info.
February 5, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Kipper,
Thanks for stopping by.
I’ll relay your message to Adam.
Regards,
Don