UPDATE February 2015: Microsoft has listed FOSL (Forms on Sharepoint Lists) as cancelled on the Office365 roadmap. This was supposed to be one of the technologies used to replace InfoPath. At the same time on the Office Blog they officially announced that InfoPath Forms Services will be available in SharePoint 2016 on premise and supported Continue reading

A professional organization’s documentation should have branding consistency complimentary to the business workflow. Whether they’re purchase orders, invoices, pick-lists, reports or checks they are brand ambassadors for the organization, and they need to contain information that fits perfectly into the business’ processes. Bottomline Technologies’ Transform Designer and Transform Server are two programs that work in Continue reading

If your organization currently scans or downloads paper documents (e.g. Purchase Orders, Invoices, Student Health Records, Service Requests, etc.), and then manually types new information onto the forms before processing them, auto-populate is time-saving technology you need right now. Legacy ECM solutions that required users to manually type index values are being replaced with improved Continue reading

If you are currently operating SharePoint 2010 you may have noticed slowdowns caused by a bug within the Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) API used by Microsoft. This particular bug causes a memory leak in Internet Information Server, causing the application pool to stop responding or to recycle if you have automatic recycling turned on. The memory Continue reading

When a parent or guardian requests that a student transfer to another school, a rather lengthy workflow process typically begins. A school transfer starts with the parents completing an initial request form. This is more often than not a paper form that contains all the basic information about the student, the schools, and the reason Continue reading

The National Center for Educational Statistics reports that it costs more than $500 billion annually to finance the 98,817 public schools in the United States.[1] To put this in perspective, consider that Walmart has 11,000 retail outlets with total sales of $476 billion. From a staffing comparison, there are over three million public school teachers Continue reading

Eliminating the need for paper documents has been the Holy Grail of electronic content management (ECM) since day one. Yes, it’s a worthy goal and it has obvious benefits – but there’s more to ECM than achieving a paperless office. ECM has long been considered valuable only for its original function of storing, tracking and Continue reading

If you value the advantages that an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution affords an organization, and are interested in purchasing or expanding Microsoft SharePoint to fill that need, you should become familiar with SharePoint’s ECM strategy merits and limitations. SharePoint can provide a solid foundation for your ECM solution, but it requires additional functionality to Continue reading

Whether an enterprise content management (ECM) solution is deployed on-premises or in the cloud, ECM system users expect comparable functionality, power, and performance from either computing environment. To be relevant in today’s market, ECM solution vendors and their products must have the flexibility to operate in either space. Which environment is right for you? Often Continue reading