Winter Reading: Document Imaging

As the winter months approach, it's time to curl up with your favorite novel. Or, if you're considering implementing a document imaging solution for your business, your favorite Microsoft SharePoint textbook.

There are some great books out right now that address the potential--and potential pitfalls--of making SharePoint a part of your business life.

Here are a couple to consider:

Essential SharePoint 2007, by Scott Jamison.

This is a quite substantial book that can teach you how to:

-- Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies
-- Build SharePoint applications people want to use
-- Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis
-- Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process
-- Organize and staff SharePoint support teams
-- Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003

Another book to consider is SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform, by Seth Bates and Tony Smith.

Be careful when ordering books on document imaging, however. Many of them are quite old, from the 1990s. And while they may be instructive on basic principles, they do not reflect the current environment.

Since the 1990s, document imaging has become part of the larger Enterprise Content Management space, so look for books with that more general tag.

Happy reading!