Monday, August 13, 2012

SharePoint Enterprise Content Management


Enterprise Content Management helps storing details like Document, records, files, etc in an organized manner such that it is easy for retrieval. Provides a reliable central storage and maintains the integrity of the details.

SharePoint also provides rich Web Content Management features, which enables users to create and publish information instantly.



SharePoint’s Enterprise Content Management includes the following features.

Feature
Description
Document Management
Acts a centralized repository to store and maintain documents of different formats.
Record Management
Apply Policies, Reviewers, Signing Authority, Audit Trails, setting Expiration policies, Approval Workflows etc for critical business records.
Eg: Legal records, Contract Agreements, Lease Agreements etc
Web Content Management
Provide instant content creating and publishing facility.
Eg: The HR Department can publish job openings in the HR Portal.
Check-In/Out
Ability to lock document and allow only one user to edit it at a given point in time.

Content types

Define standards Fields, to maintain consistency of similar documents across sites, users and Groups.
Eg: A Contract Agreement Content type should have the fields. Start Date, Target Date, Approved by etc.
Role Based Security
Apply security settings and restrict access of documents to specific users / groups.
Information Rights Management (IRM)
IRM Allows us to specific user/group specific access rights to Documents / Lists / Libraries like View Only access, Full access etc. This helps us to implement preserve the integrity of the document and restrict access to anonymous users.
Metadata
Maintain key index information about the document in metadata.
Document Library
Libraries to hold related documents with Metadata based index.
List
Hold text based records.
Folders
Ability to create individual folders based on users or Type of documents
Document Center site

A pre-defined site template to store large number of documents, this template has per-defined features like Tree view navigation, versioning, Check-in and check-out, Content types, Relevant Documents Web Part etc to help manage documents easily.

WYSIWYG Editor
Create Rich Text content, and publish it.
Multilingual Sites 
Support for multiple languages.
Workflows
Helps in setting up a review/approval process flow for the documents which are added / modified so as to maintain the integrity of the document.

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