If you are thinking about how document imaging may be able to help your corporation, which is not a massive corporation with unlimited resources to throw at Enterprise Content Management, think about watching this webinar from Gilbane Group.
Sponsored by KnowledgeLake, the discussion, though more than one year old, offers strong insight into the challenges faced by smaller companies that wish to take advantage of all that document imaging technologies have to offer.
The situation, then as now, is full of opportunity. Costs for document imaging technology products have dropped while capabilities have increased, a variation on Moore's Law. The missing piece seems to be, "What is the platform for building out these applications?"
Platforms are an extremely important development in any technology, because they enable linking and sharing at fundamental levels. Document imaging is no exception to this rule, and in fact may even be more dependent on platform than most technologies.
Gilbane Group analysts point to SharePoint as the obvious and indeed only option to serve as such a platform. And they cite some compelling numbers to back that up. For example, SharePoint is the fastest-selling product in Microsoft history.
As SharePoint garners more and more corporate users, it is moving towards becoming the standard platform for corporate document imaging as an entire market.
While this is not good news for Microsoft's competition, it is good news for small businesses that want to build document imaging solutions--because platforms reduce cost, and allow the buying and selling of "ready made" products that work, and work together, and are affordable.
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