SharePoint Taxonomy Webinar: SharePoint out of Control? Best practices to apply a governance strategy to your SharePoint deployment.

Date:  09-14-2011
Time:  11h30am ET
Register Today:  https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=155472

Once deployed within your company, SharePoint's popularity has the potential to become viral. This session will focus on how to apply a governance strategy against the SharePoint sites and objects, and how best to manage user expectations for leveraging SharePoint within your company. PPC will use real life examples and experience to deliver the lessons learned.

David Sanchez will discuss how the SharePoint and third-party tools are being used in both the US Air Force and other federal and commercial enterprises to deploy Governance.

We also look at how using Concept Searching's conceptClassifier for SharePoint and how you might automate much of the process designed to deliver a consistent user experience at retrieval time using taxonomy and automatic content tagging.

Furthermore we explore using the tool to apply your Governance strategy to identify and lock down sensitive information such as PII from being published on uncontrolled portals.

Project Performance Corporation, the North American Operations arm of AEA, an internationally recognized consultancy will share their expertise on taxonomy strategies, planning, and how business taxonomies deliver critical functionality to the organization. Learn from the experts why taxonomy significantly improves navigation and the ability to find relevant information. Understand the importance in the design and deployment strategies that can impact the ability of the organization to adjust as their audience and business objectives change.

You will also learn about Concept Searching's conceptClassifier for SharePoint. The award winning product is the only natively running solution in the SharePoint platform that provides automatic conceptual metadata generation, auto-classification, and industry unique taxonomy management features. Being used to improve search with SharePoint Search and FAST, it is also being to improve a variety of business challenges.

What you will take away from this session:

- Best practices for deploying a Governance Model
- Lessons Learned, real life examples from both the Federal and Commercial sectors
- Aligning Rights management with Content
- Enabling collaboration securely
- Eliminating inconsistency, tagging sensitive information
- Discuss the unique features in conceptClassifier for SharePoint that integrates with the SharePoint Term Store and drives the Governance model in areas such as Records management PII, PHI and PCI.

Guest Speakers
Sylvester Placid from Project Performance Corporation is an expert in information architecture, taxonomy design, and portal strategy for clients in the government, media, hospitality, and products industries.

Major David Sanchez is an Air Force Reserve Officer attached to the 711th Human Performance Wing as the Deputy Director of the USAF Human Performance Clearinghouse. In addition David serves on the Air Force SharePoint 2010 Working Group responsible for exploiting the SharePoint ECAL Suite Enterprise Agreement by driving the ability to leverage automatic metadata tagging capabilities and Managed Metadata Services to automatically apply SharePoint Security Services, Information Management Policy Settings, and Information Rights Management Policy Settings. In his civilian role David works with Concept Searching and a variety of Microsoft Gold Partners in their efforts to help customers deploy the SharePoint 2010 ECAL Suite to reduce costs associated with Information, Records, and Knowledge Management programs.

About Concept Searching
Founded in 2002, Concept Searching's software products deliver automatic semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, taxonomy management solutions from the desktop to the enterprise. Concept Searching is the only statistical metadata generation and classification software company in the world that uses concept extraction and compound term processing to significantly improve access to unstructured information. Headquartered in the U.K. with offices in the U.S. and South Africa, Concept Searching solves the problem of finding, organizing, and managing information capital. For more information about Concept Searching's solutions and technologies please visit www.conceptsearching.com.