​Recently a large professional services firm with international operations conducted an evaluation of MacroView DMF. The firm was interested in moving to a SharePoint-based solution to replace their existing OpenText / Hummingbird system. They liked the way MacroView DMF extended and enhanced the functionality and user experience for performing DM tasks on SharePoint, but were concerned as to whether SharePoint would be able to cope with their large document stores. They were doubtful as to whe ...[Read More]

This is Part 3 in the series Managing Documents with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 - MacroView DMF Adds Value in 10 Ways. For the full text of this article, click here. From a document management perspective, improved search capability is one of the standout features of SharePoint 2010. Ironically though, you cannot perform a search for documents from within Office 2010 – you need to go into the web browser. MacroView DMF™ adds value by making it easy and convenient for users to search ...[Read More]

Once an organisation starts using SharePoint as their means of storing email messages and other files, they typically find that their SharePoint document store rapidly gets large. ‘Large’ has a number of dimensions – it can be that there are a large number of nodes in the tree of Site Collections, Sites, Libraries and Folders, with deep nesting sites within sites within sites and folders within folders within libraries. ‘Large’ can also mean that there are a great number of files stored in so ...[Read More]

One of the attractions of Microsoft SharePoint for storing documents is that SharePoint has quite powerful search capabilities. You can find Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, Outlook messages, text files and even PDFs based on the words and phrases that they contain. SharePoint searching can also be done on the basis of metadata, which is critical for efficient searching across large volumes of documents. MacroView DMF promotes successful metadata-based searching in SharePoint by the w ...[Read More]

Law firms considering using SharePoint for legal document management often ask whether they can use a Client / Matter-centric approach. They want to be easily able to see and retrieve documents that have been stored for a particular Client or for a particular Matter for a Client. When saving a document, email or other file legal users want to choose the relevant Client and Matter rather than having to navigate the document store. Retrieving and saving on the basis of the client-matter pr ...[Read More]