Sharepoint Solution

Take SharePoint Collaboration and Compliance to the Next Level

 

The SchemaLogic Connector for SharePoint 2007 supplies companies with the power to develop and manage an enterprise-wide metadata model to describe corporate information assets stored across multiple SharePoint sites. SchemaLogic delivers four key value propositions that enhance critical benefits of SharePoint 2007;

Improved Information Access – Employees can find the most complete, relevant information about a subject based on improved metadata quality and consistency.

Corporate Governance –Companies can maintain published corporate standards, while allowing regional and departmental variations.

Regulatory Compliance – Organizations can achieve and maintain regulatory compliance by providing the capability to continuously and easily monitor alignment with established corporate standards.

SharePoint Provisioning and Administration –SharePoint sites can easily be configured to remain consistent with sites across the environment.

 

SharePoint Delivers

Microsoft SharePoint 2007 provides an efficient and user-friendly way for individuals, teams and departments to quickly create customizable collaboration and content management sites. For better management of the content in their deployments, SharePoint 2007 allows organizations to define "metadata" attached to each piece of content. This metadata defines the content types and terms used to describe the information stored in the SharePoint system so that information assets can be stored, retrieved and shared across the enterprise. For instance, one content type might be "Engineering Requirements Document" and the associated metadata might include “author, department, product family, language” and so on.

 

The SharePoint Challenge

SharePoint facilitates the ad hoc creation of sites across the enterprise. To support this decentralized provisioning model, Microsoft limited the scope of content type metadata to the site collection level -- logical groupings of sites in most deployment architectures that may number in the tens, hundreds, or thousands. Without central management, there is little consistency or accuracy of metadata across an enterprise-wide SharePoint deployment.

Further complicating the problem for most organizations are the multiple systems in addition to SharePoint that store vital information. The inability to rationalize metadata structures in SharePoint with structures deployed in other systems limits the ability to achieve true enterprise-wide content access and exchange.

Additionally, SharePoint limits the structure of metadata to small flat value lists. Organizations which use more complex structures to add relevance and context to metadata will not be able to manage those linguistic structures in SharePoint. Finally, metadata requirements continually develop and change across the enterprise during collaboration in SharePoint. Without tools to manage this evolution, changes cannot be made fast enough to meet the dynamic needs of the organization.

As a result of these SharePoint drawbacks, content descriptions are often inconsistent across SharePoint sites, and the effectiveness of enterprise content management, search, records management and other key applications is compromised.

 

The SchemaLogic Solution

The SchemaLogic Connector for SharePoint 2007 enables companies to manage and connect the metadata structures that describe corporate information assets stored across multiple SharePoint sites and other systems. The Connector continuously updates and synchronizes the metadata across multiple sites and throughout diverse systems. This structure aligns all SharePoint sites across the organization, providing a consistent foundation for unified information access.

 

Downloads:

downloadProduct Details: SchemaLogic Connector for SharePoint

downloadSolution Overview: A Powerful, Flexible Solution to Optimize SharePoint 2007

downloadMicrosoft Interoperability Alliance features SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite

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