SharePoint Without the Business Case

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A New Column By Howard Oliver, CEO, What If What Next, whatifwhatnext@on.aibn.com, Senior Associate, Cloud Ventures

A recent report determined that half of implementations of Microsoft Corp.’s SharePoint collaboration platform go ahead without a formal business case. According this research by The Association for Information and Image Management, a content management industry association. The challenge this is causing lies on the content management and records management side.

The ease of creating SharePoint sites means end-users can implement the technology. And the fact that end-users are creating their own meta data means that data has to be remapped for the records management function.

Clearly a better business case is required to handle to the Records Information Management issues in particular legal requirements for secure document storage.

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