SharePoint and Document Imaging: Five Considerations

By Corey Smith

Tristam Wallace, at the Document Imaging Blog, had a very interesting post on SharePoint and Document Imaging. I think that one of the most common misconceptions is that if you have SharePoint in your office that you have a fully featured document imaging system.

SharePoint can certainly help increase your productivity through collaboration and document storage, but if you have a lot of unstructured data (documents that have been scanned), you probably need to look at integrating your document imaging system (capture/scanning or storage) with SharePoint to help your employees increase their document management productivity.

Here is the list of five considerations that Tristam points out:

1. Paper connectivity should not require major IT involvement.
2. Are SharePoint project teams outside your firewall?
3. Are hosted SharePoint services in your future?
4. Is real-time integration with SharePoint supported?
5. Is the document imaging application flexible and does it support multiple workflows?

Be sure to go to the Document Imaging Blog to read all of Tristam’s thoughts