Microsoft® SharePoint® is sweeping through
organizations, serving as a powerful catalyst for the
benefits of enterprise content management (ECM), which
include not just managing content, but also
collaboration and process automation.
In some cases, it has pushed companies to seriously
consider leveraging SharePoint as the first step
towards ECM. For other companies, it has been more
about how SharePoint needs to coexist with current
systems. While SharePoint has brought ECM to the
masses in a simple and easy-to-deploy way, one
question that looms large is: How do I get my paper
into SharePoint so that I can transform it from a
liability into an immediate business advantage? To
answer that question requires careful consideration of
the eight key points outlined here.