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SharePoint and Document Imaging: Five Considerations

Tristam Wallace, at the Document Imaging Blog, had a very interesting post on SharePoint and Document Imaging. I think that one of the most common misconceptions is that if you have SharePoint in your office that you have a fully featured document imaging system.

SharePoint can certainly help increase your productivity through collaboration and document storage, but if you have a lot of unstructured data (documents that have been scanned), you probably need to look at integrating your document imaging system (capture/scanning or storage) with SharePoint to help your employees increase their document management productivity.

Here is the list of five considerations that Tristam points out:

  • Paper connectivity should not require major IT involvement.
  • Are SharePoint project teams outside your firewall?
  • Are hosted SharePoint services in your future?
  • Is real-time integration with SharePoint supported?
  • Is the document imaging application flexible and does it support multiple workflows?

Be sure to go to the Document Imaging Blog to read all of Tristam’s thoughts.