SharePoint 2010 Enhances Content Management

SharePoint Server 2010 offers many improvements for organizing, searching, and archiving documents and other content. It will also help organizations get control of policies and procedures for managing content in SharePoint sites, which have spread rapidly and at times without enterprise oversight. However, SharePoint Server cannot manage content in other stores (such as Windows file systems), and to avoid SharePoint “sprawl” organizations will need to implement effective content management policies and procedures both within SharePoint and outside of it, a task that offers opportunities for Microsoft partners.

Latest Chapter in SharePoint Content Management

Enterprise content management (ECM) is a broad term for processes that manage documents, Web pages, images, and other digital information inside organizations. It subsumes several industry terms, including the following:

Document management systems organize, categorize, and store working documents and make those documents easier for users to find and use.