A Busy Week at #SPC12: Mobile, SharePoint 2013, Windows 8, Surface RT, & Bon Jovi! What a fantastic week at the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas! Colligo’s booth was very busy showing our brand new Colligo Briefcase for Android and Mac OS X, Colligo Email Manager, and talking with attendees from all over. The mobility …

Introduction: Security Concerns The flood of iPads and iPhones into the enterprise brings huge productivity gains for the mobile workforce, but introduces a raft of security concerns for the IT department. The line between home and office, personal and corporate, has been blurred. Mobile devices with SharePoint access are attractive targets for attackers, as they …

This series of blog posts looks at seven best practices to consider when implementing email records management in your organization. It discusses various considerations for evaluating email records management strategies and the challenges to fully integrating email into a records management environment. In part one, we discuss email in a records management context and some of the questions that need to be addressed for effective email records management.

Guest Blogger – Chris Riley – CloudShare – With the introduction of SharePoint 2010, the platform is now fully accepted as a solution for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). But what does that really mean? In this blog series, I’ll try to answer that question and provide some tips to a successful SharePoint ECM deployment. Part 2 of the 3 part series.

Bruce Miller of RIM Tech reviews the new GimmalSoft Compliance Suite for DoD 5015.2 compliance, which includes the Colligo Contributor Add-In for Outlook, and calls it a “market game changer.”

Over the past week, I’ve been working with a customer on a particularly interesting use case for SharePoint that I thought others in the SharePoint community might be interested in learning more about it. The customer is using Zantaz (from Autonomy/HP) for email archiving with a primary focus around eDiscovery, email retention and legal hold. A very cost effective option would be to use SharePoint and Exchange to provide the same functionality while leveraging their existing investment in the Microsoft stack.

Colligo is increasingly working with companies and organizations on their email and records management strategies particularly as SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 upgrades are being undertaken worldwide. As organizations look to adopt SharePoint 2010 for enterprise records management, there has been considerable discussion around the use of Exchange Managed Folders and their suitability for storing email in records management scenarios.

Just in time for the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft has published an excellent Colligo and SharePoint case study and how we help customers take advantage of the enterprise-level capabilities of SharePoint 2010 for document, email and records management.