It seems like everybody is talking about records management these days...or at least everybody's asking about it. With all of the government regulations, concerns about customer privacy, and company confidentiality, a good records management system is a critical part of most enterprise architectures.
I recently spoke to Manish Sharma, a Senior Product Manager in the Office division. He focuses on the enterprise content management solutions built inside of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
In this prodcast, Manish discusses how a document, email or other type of data can now be stored inside of SharePoint as a "record" with policies which define not only how long the document should be active, but what to do with the content once it expires. He highlights how the Windows Workflow Foundation can make automatic routing of these pieces of content a breeze, with pre-defined templates for approval processes and other "out of the box" scenarios. Manish also discusses third party solutions which compliment Microsoft's offering, providing specific functionality for key vertical scenarios. Finally, he also discusses how the other "management" types (web content management and document management) relate to records management within MOSS 2007 and where we've invested in new features and enhanced functionality.
For those of you who have been waiting for the new release to see records management become a fully supported solution...listen to this prodcast and start evaluating Beta 2 of MOSS 2007.
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For more information on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, please visit the Microsoft website.