Introduction
This book takes you through how to analyze and plan enterprise content management (ECM) solutions for an effective and end-to-end information design built in SharePoint 2013 and based on your organization’s needs and business requirements.
My primary focus as I wrote this book was to guide you through analyzing business processes and requirements to design an ECM solution rather than simply deploying technology. Technology plays a part, and I guide you through the steps you need to deploy and configure relevant aspects of SharePoint, but I also move beyond surveying the product features to consider the underlying business needs that drive decisions in your solution design.
Throughout this book, you will receive expert guidance on how to manage your information life cycle—from identifying and understanding your organization’s information, to creating and collaborating on your transitory content, to capturing and controlling your records. This book walks you through each phase to guide you with your ECM strategy, from content creation and discovery to retention and disposition, and it gives you the basis to design and implement your ECM solution.
After reading this book, you will know how to
Who This Book is For
Practical SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Content Management is for you if you are a SharePoint architect, administrator, consultant, or project manager and you implement SharePoint solutions that relate to one or more aspects of the information life cycle involved with ECM.
This book is also for you if you are an enterprise architect or a records manager and you want to learn how ECM fits in SharePoint. This book is definitely for you if you want to analyze, design, and implement an ECM solution on SharePoint 2013.
I wrote this book in a conversational manner to share my ECM knowledge and experiences with you as a peer.
How This Book Is Organized
This book organizes enterprise content management topics by phase in the information life cycle. I choose to organize the book in this way to help you apply the appropriate SharePoint 2013 features to meet your needs, depending on which stage of the information life cycle you are addressing.
I broke the book into the following four parts:
I tried to reference other chapters anywhere I mention something that I describe in greater detail elsewhere in the book, whether it occurs earlier or later. In this way, I hope to accommodate any readers who read the book out of order or who are only interested in particular sections. Of course, you can also read the book in order, cover to cover.
Note As you read, please do let me know if you have any feedback on the book. I would love to hear from you! Please send me a tweet @SteveGoodyear on Twitter to share any of your feedback or thoughts.
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