SharePoint is the most widely adopted and adapted enterprise content management and collaboration platform in the world, serving clients in every sector and driving key business activities in every industry. By enabling users to have a single point of access to every sphere of work process from web content to document management and collaboration, and delivering business intelligence and reporting capabilities it simply makes it easier for people to work together.
Document Collaboration driven by Metadata and Search
Document collaboration is a major strength of the SharePoint platform, with the ability to manage documents in multiple versions, with seamless integration with productivity software like the Office package. Support for non-Microsoft formats, like PDF continue to be a challenge even on the latest versions of SharePoint, as do specialised line-of-business formats like vectorised drawings, or similar complex formats. These limitations impact how deeply into SharePoint organisations can move, but can be easily dealt with by a solution like Ontolica that effectively removes the iFilter discussion by handling all previews with on-demand conversion technology.
Working with taxonomies and folksonomies has never been easier, and SharePoint delivers powerful tools for managing metadata for administrators. Hurdles remain however, for organisations that need categorise pre-existing content or new content, or work with emergent or retroactive taxonomies. Ontolica’s ability to leverage taxonomies and expose emergent terms is a powerful extension to this key SharePoint capability.
Configurable Search on SharePoint 2010
The native search functionality in SharePoint 2010 lifts the bar from what was available in SharePoint 2007, but it still does not provide the full suite of capabilities needed for the modern organization. Even with the improved development and customization framework now available in SharePoint, it is still highly complex to customize or configure the search, let alone deploy new metadata, filters or filters. Ontolica’s highly robust configuration interface turns these complex tasks into a few clicks in the administration pages.
Horisontal Platforms, Vertical Solutions
SharePoint is the ultimate horizontal platform, meeting the baseline needs of any imaginable organization, from eDiscovery, to heavy industry to healthcare, education to eGovernment. With custom development, powerful third-party solutions and implementations it can be adapted and verticalised to meet the most needs of the most demanding end-users.
With the right vertical solutions and tools to meet the challenges of document management and navigation, metadata implementation and emergent taxonomy management, and a powerful search and discovery solution, such as that provided by Ontolica, your organization can truly leverage all of the power SharePoint has to offer as a full Enterprise Content Management platform.