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.