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• 8 Reasons why Santa Claus Needs Cloud-Based Document Management – Digital Landfill
  In an interview with Santa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loECb-bkiQY), today’s guest blogger KnowledgeTree identified 8 reasons why Santa needs document management in the cloud. 1 — Reduction in Paper. Santa receives millions and millions of letters each year and has always done his part when it comes to recycling. However, an online document management system that accepts uploaded letters and stores emails will take Santa’s green initiatives one step further by eliminating the need for paper altogether. The cumulative impact on reducing global warming will make the polar bears very happy! 2 — Elimination of IT Infrastructure. Winter temperatures at the North Pole average around −30 °F. The brutal cold wreaks havoc on Santa’s existing data center. Where most servers need to be kept cool to operate efficiently, Santa’s servers need to be kept warm — at considerable cost. With a cloud-based DMS, Santa can reduce his energy costs, avoid technology obsolescence, and reduce the support burden on his IT elves. 3 — Accessibility of Documents. Although Santa stays close to home for much of the time, he has a killer travel schedule one night a year. Rather than having to pop in to a FedEx/Kinkos to receive a fax on Christmas Eve,…

Why will my users care about upgrading to SharePoint 2010? — I thought I would discuss some of the key reasons I see for upgrading to SharePoint 2010. For now, I’m going to stay away from the behind the scenes items such as scalability and focus more on the end user perspective. All about the metadata – This is a bit of a passion of mine. I’ll go into more detail here in a later post. From managed terms and keywords to the term store and tagging, the features are intuitive, simpler to manage and easier to re-use. For now, I’ll just say that your… What’s upfront is what counts — Ok, you’re probably thinking, what’s he talking about, the front of what? Well I’ll tell you it is what we do upfront – in advance – as part of the ECM, ERM, SharePoint or any project that makes all the difference between success and expectations not being met. Companies look at ECM and all of the associated technologies as the solution but in reality if we do not take time to assess, plan and then implement, we will not get our desired results. I have heard from some in…

MoReq2010 Progress — Just in time for its meeting in Brussels starting tomorrow, the DLM Forum published yesterday (Sunday 14 November 2010) a newsletter about MoReq2010. It explains that the MoReq2010 consultation draft will be published on 16 November (or maybe 18 November, depending on which page you read); and that an online seminar has just been launched (or will be launched in Brussels, depending on which page you read; it has in fact been available on the ARMA website for a couple of weeks). RIM to drive up the value of Time Capsules? — Earlier this week I attended the 55 th Annual ARMA Conference and Expo, and as always happens, I find myself inspired by what I saw, heard and learned. Interestingly however, and perhaps due to my earlier post about my anthropological academic background, I found my mind wandering a bit … and perhaps a bit subversively. Let me explain. For as much as good RIM is about retaining information to meet compliance obligations, to facilitate productivity and to generate competitive advantage, it’s also… Handling Language Dependencies in eDiscovery, Records Management when using Content Analytics — Foreign language texts contain a lot of hidden information, making multilingual…