SharePoint and E-Discovery Challenges

Since its launch in 2001, Microsoft’s SharePoint application has become many things to many people and organizations. For some, it’s a simple collaboration or data management tool. For others, it’s a sophisticated development platform for everything from internal dashboards to transactional websites. Numerous case studies available on the Web showcase how companies have used SharePoint to improve worker productivity, strengthen client relationships and help grow businesses.

As the innovative use cases and benefits expand, so does its adoption. In a recently released report, “SharePoint - Strategies and Experiences,” the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) polled its community of enterprise content management professionals and found that 61 percent of member organizations have implemented, or are in the process of implementing, some version of the SharePoint application (including SharePoint 2003, Windows SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server).

The same report finds that “the majority of deployments have been initiated without any formal business plan or justification being prepared. The inevitable result is a lack of clarity and planning as to where it will be used, and how it sits with other systems.” The report goes on to find that for 23 percent of respondents, all of their office staff access SharePoint, and this is set to double in the next 12 months. In addition, “Forty-four percent of respondents have rolled out SharePoint across 10 or more geographical sites, with 14 percent covering over 100 geographical sites.”

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Source: information-management.com
By: Larry Briggi