Chapter 1. ECM Defined

In this chapter, we will lay out the fundamental building blocks of ECM. This will help you understand at a high level what you will need to include as part of a comprehensive strategy for managing content in SharePoint. Almost anyone can create a server farm and then create a site collection and start adding content to a document library. Typically and unfortunately, that’s how most SharePoint projects begin to fail. What you will gain from the following sections is a much broader scope of ECM to help you prevent this from happening.

What is Enterprise Content Management?

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is not a technology, and SharePoint is not an out-of-the-box ECM solution. These two statements contradict what some ...

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