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

An Enterprise Content Management system (ECM) helps to eliminate the waste and redundancy of paper administration. But it can also help to reduce human error. This case study examines an example from the manufacturing industry and illustrates the impact electronic document management can have on an Accounts Payable department. A global manufacturer of commercial carpeting Continue reading

Relying too heavily on paper documents to conduct business is a competitive disadvantage. Computer technology, digitized content, and massive storage capacities have exposed paper document management as an expensive liability. If you are thinking of ways to efficiently manage documents and other content in your business, and to overcome 

For too many organizations, “records retention” means storing paper documents and files in boxes in the office basement, or at an offsite storage facility. Managing paper records is extremely time consuming and arduous, so the default policy is to “save everything until we run out of space.” Today, technology presents a more practical and effective Continue reading