Colligo Blog: Document Management

Next week, Colligo and IT Unity are joining forces to bring you the webinar Gold Medal Collaboration: SharePoint Engagement at NBC for the Olympics. I recently met with our guest speakers, SharePoint MVP Dan Holme and Colligo CEO Barry Jinks, to discuss the success of the SharePoint implementation for NBC Olympics at the 2014 Olympic …

Last week, I had the pleasure of co-hosting a webinar with our partner Gig Werks to discuss how Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) organizations can enhance collaboration and mitigate risk with email and document management in SharePoint. Thank you to everyone who attended, I appreciated your comments. For those of you who couldn’t attend, click here to …

With the deluge of mobile devices into the enterprise comes an IT nightmare of new dimensions. Expectations have changed. IT policies need to adapt to fit the new generation of workers, yet the requirements for security of corporate data remain. Meeting these conflicting needs is a delicate balancing act. The majority of large organizations have …

Around this time last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, half of employers would require employees to supply their own device for work purposes. While a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) strategy is still touted by some as “the” answer to appeasing a demanding mobile workforce and to reducing IT costs, the movement is showing …

Join Colligo and partner Gig Werks for a complimentary webcast on how Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) organizations can Enhance Collaboration and Mitigate Risk with Email and Document Management in SharePoint. In organizations governed by rising costs, slim margins and the threat of litigation, keeping complex, multi-party projects on-time and on-budget requires up-to-the minute collaboration. An …

As an article from KM World notes, organizations are experiencing unprecedented growth in information generation, leaving many struggling to manage all of that data. But the sheer volume of data isn’t the biggest challenge for most organizations; it’s that the data is so fragmented. Learn how to make categorizing and finding data easier.

Lean management, a strategy that focuses on reducing inefficiency and boosting value, originated in the manufacturing world. However, as an article from CMSWire explains, it’s applicable in many areas, including information governance, which is an important area that often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves.

A recent white paper, The ROI Benefits of Business Critical SharePoint authored by Microsoft and Pique Solutions, an independent research and analysis firm, defined a business critical system as one that: “Extends and automates important business processes across, and even beyond, organizational boundaries by exposing line of business (LOB) data, and allowing it to be …

Why do people turn to consumer tools like Dropbox for work when their company has an enterprise content management (ECM) system? An article from CMSWire.com offers some insights, especially the notion of “suite overkill.” The key is to tailor the full features of an ECM platform like SharePoint and only implement what users require.

Most organizations move to SharePoint to get away from local file shares and take advantage of more structured data. This only happens if there’s metadata, which is one of SharePoint’s strengths. The pros and cons of SharePoint and Dropbox — including structure and findability — are discussed in an article from CMSWire.