​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]

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]

Many organizations are looking to use Microsoft SharePoint to replace their File Shares. The appeal of SharePoint is that it has native document management capabilities, such as versioning, retention and searching based on meta-data. However the out-of-the-box user interface to SharePoint has a number of weaknesses that make it frustrating for users who were previously saving and retrieving files to / from a network drive or other file share. A key frustration with SharePoint is that it ...[Read More]

Organizations that are using SharePoint to manage all their email messages or all their documents typically find that their SharePoint environment grows very large quite rapidly. They can have millions of documents stored in thousands of site collections, huge site trees, large numbers of document libraries and deeply nested folder structures. With the native web-browser interface of Microsoft SharePoint it is very difficult to visualize these large SharePoint document repositories and to n ...[Read More]

Professional Consulting services from MacroView and its Partners can help you to design a SharePoint environment that can store large documents volumes and enable easy browsing and successful searching, while at the same time minimizing the user effort associated with saving and uploading. If you just starting out with SharePoint or if your users are feeling frustrated with SharePoint this SharePoint design consulting assistance can be of real benefit. This design consulting can help you ...[Read More]

Organizations that have implemented multiple SharePoint server farms (e.g. in Europe, North America and Asia) appreciate the way MacroView DMF allows them to ‘federate’ those separate SharePoint document stores so that their users see a single logical document store displayed in the MacroView DMF tree-view. The federated tree-view will merge like-named nodes from multiple SharePoint document stores. E.g. all sites in ‘Clients’ site collections on server farms in Europe, North America and A ...[Read More]