You may recall that I was knee-deep in writing an RFP for an ECM pilot  
project. Well, IT stepped in and insisted that we wait until they were  
ready to move because they don't have the resources to support even an  
initial pilot right now. So the legal department raised a fuss and  
said they needed SOMETHING yesterday even if it was a temporary fix.

One thing led to another and we are again looking a using SharePoint,  
except this time it's SharePoint 2010. We are a beta-test site for  
2010 and Microsoft would absolutely LOVE it if we adopted it as our  
only ECM -- a company as big as us would be a huge feather in their  
hat. I spoke with our Microsoft person and our IT folks and expressed  
reservations based on what I knew about 2007's Records Center and was  
told that 2010 fixed a lot of the shortcomings of 2007.

I've read up on it some and 2010 looks promising, but our IT people do  
not want to spend the time going down this path if in the long run it  
won't do, so we'll be looking at it with a very critical eye. We're  
having a demonstration in a couple of weeks and I wanted to go in  
armed with some very pointed questions.  I've already asked that they  
specifically show how they handle entering and tracking paper records  
(yea, I know Steve -- welcome back, by the way -- but paper ain't  
going away soon), how the search  interface would find both paper and  
electronic records and a few other specific items our legal department  
wanted.

Has anyone else had an opportunity to play with it or read any good  
reviews, articles or white papers? I just got the Hot Topic for March,  
so I'm looking for other ones. For people who actually tried to set up  
the Record Center in 2007 or are still using it, what do you feel  
really needs to be fixed?


Nolene Sherman
[log in to unmask]
Orange County, CA

Tracking where records are kept is what Tiggers and Records Managers  
do best!

List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]