A Complete Ecm Solution: Enterprise Capture and Sharepoint

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How do organizations continue to grow, enable

employees and maintain a competitive advan-


tage while controlling spending at the same
time? By becoming more productive and lever-
aging whats already in place, namely, informa-
tion and the ECM systems with which its man-
aged. Today, Microsoft SharePoint is considered
one of the fastest growing ECM systems, and for
clear reasons: its secure, scalable, robust and
easy to integrate into an existing infrastructure.
According to a recent AIIM survey, 70 percent
of major organizations use SharePoint. Of those
organizations, 45 percent consider it to be one
of their primary ECM systems, and for 37 percent,
SharePoint represents their first significant imple-
mentation of ECM. Whats driving this growth in
SharePoint implementations? Companies are
banking on its potential ability to enact a cultural
change, one in which knowledge sharing among
employees empowers more effective decision
making and greater productivity and all for a
low TCO, please.
Thats a tall order. SharePoint may be perva-
sive, but its not without its challenges. When it
comes to managing content in SharePoint, orga-
nizations voice concerns over the lack of control,
low visibility and the quality of organization of
their valuable information. Typical ECM solutions
have five components: collaboration, document
management, workflow, web content manage-
ment and records management. SharePoint
addresses the majority of these aspects, but
leaves imaging and scanning, a crucial element
of document management, out in the cold. The
AIIM survey indicates that only nine percent of
large organizations with SharePoint implemen-
tations currently use scanned images of docu-
ments in a workflow environment.
Paper isnt the only problem. Content can
arrive at an organizations SharePoint implemen-
tation from a number of locations and in as many
formats, such as paper, email with attachments,
XML, or fax. All types of information need to get
into SharePoint, where they are typically stored
in a haphazard fashion thats an obstacle to
locating and retrieving mission-critical informa-
tion. To truly improve information sharing and
leverage the productivity benefits that come
with it, a SharePoint implementation has to be
a comprehensive solution, connecting front-end
content delivery to vital back-end processes.
Users must be able to import information into
SharePoint from a variety of sources, catego-
rize it with minimal effort and use it to drive and
accelerate downstream business processes.
Enterprise capture the ability to capture,
separate, classify and extract all types of infor-
mation to enable document-driven business pro-
cesses enables SharePoint to address a wider
variety of customer- facing enterprise solutions.
By providing a consistent platform for delivering
any content in any format into SharePoint, enter-
PART 1: EXTENDING YOUR SHAREPOINT
INVESTMENT WITH ENTERPRISE CAPTURE
BY ALLEN CARNEY, VP OF PRODUCT MARKETING AT KOFAX
As seen in the 5/17/11 edition of the ECM Connection newsletter www.ecmconnection.com.
ENTERPRISE CAPTURE AND SHAREPOINT:
A COMPLETE ECM SOLUTION
prise capture increases the return on investment
of a SharePoint implementation. The enter-
prise capture solution makes it fast and simple
to access vital business information, reducing
the time and costs associated with manual
tasks, improving data quality for better decision
making and increasing productivity to deliver
a significant ROI in as a little as 12 months.
By connecting front-to-back office processes,
enterprise capture completes the solution and
ensures that organizations get the most value
from their SharePoint implementation.
In this series, well examine the elements of
a successful enterprise capture solution for
SharePoint, including how to deliver all informa-
tion into SharePoint; how to categorize, extract
and validate the information that drives the
automation of business processes; and how
companies have implemented enterprise cap-
ture with SharePoint to achieve a fast, measur-
able ROI.
As seen in the 5/17/11 edition of the ECM Connection newsletter www.ecmconnection.com
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Allen Carney, VP of product marketing at Kofax
Allen Carney leads the development and implementation
of Kofax product marketing strategy. Earlier, he was VP of
Marketing for 170 Systems, a developer of invoice process-
ing automation solutions that was acquired by Kofax in
September, 2009. Previously, Allen served as VP of Marketing
for NMS Communications, a developer of telecommunica-
tions components and solutions, VP of Marketing at Lotus
Development Corporation, where he was responsible for
Applications and International Marketing, and as VP of
European Operations for Atex, a developer of prepress auto-
mation solutions.
Allen holds a Bachelors of Arts degree from Yale University.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ENTERPRISE CAPTURE AND SHAREPOINT:
A COMPLETE ECM SOLUTION

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