<p>"Built-in, targeted ECM and document management functionality boosts the value of SharePoint as both a rich collaboration portal and a centralised document repository, which creates a better and more comprehensive platform for managing, searching and tracking all the content that exists across an organisation's ecosystem," says Vanessa Miller, Managing Director for VM Consulting, a firm specialising in document management and business process management solutions.</p><p>Commenting on a whitepaper recently released by M-Files, an award-winning ECM and document management solution, Miller adds: "For many organisations, it ultimately comes down to choosing between developing one's own custom document management capabilities in SharePoint, or employing a solution that augments and complements SharePoint with out-of-the-box features."</p><p>As SharePoint's growth has increased, most ECM and document management vendors have responded by offering some level of SharePoint connectivity. But for many organisations with specific and/or mandatory requirements related to document management, it takes much more than just connectivity to get the job done.</p><p>These businesses are turning to purpose-built solutions that offer deep integration of document and business process management functionality with SharePoint's collaborative capabilities. Furthermore, the specific features that purpose-built solutions can deliver from compliance support to business process automation and intelligence ensure that structured and unstructured data is uniformly stored, indexed, secured and available for routing, editing and tracking.</p><p><a href="http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58622:Boosting-the-value-of-SharePoint-with-ECM-and-document-management&catid=355">Keep reading...</a></p>