Whitney Tidmarsh is the chief marketing officer for the Content Management and Archiving Division of EMC Corporation. Whitney is active in AIIM and currently serves on the AIIM Board of Directors. She can be followed on Twitter at @whitneytidmarsh. For more information about EMC, visit: www.emc.com. These 8 ways to control your SharePoint infrastructure loosely fall into three buckets — 1) Improve infrastructure performance, 2) Assert governance and control over your SharePoint infrastructure, and 3) Get more out of your SharePoint investments. EMC and Microsoft share a longstanding partnership aimed at providing customers with solutions and tools to benefit business workers around the world. There’s no doubt that Microsoft SharePoint is big and here to stay as a platform for customized information sharing. A recent IDC study showed enterprise adoption or planned adoption of SharePoint at 70% — and that figure seems conservative. Users are widely embracing SharePoint for tying together disconnected islands of data, integrating technology with business processes, and targeting and personalizing information for groups and individual users. The explosion of these active and inactive teamsites poses information management challenges for IT and the business. At the highest level, we believe an effective information management strategy enables enterprises…

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CMIS made a big splash at AIIM On Demand. My personal opinion is that CMIS (or the SQL-ization of content repositiories) will have an enormous impact on the consumerization of ECM, one of the points I focused on in my keynote. The CMIS demo at AIIM is located HERE. I asked Laurence Hart, one of the real smart guys in the ECM space and CMIS-guru, to put together an 8 things post on CMIS. Laurence is Director of Technology Solutions for Washington Consulting, Inc. and the author of the blog “Word of Pie”. Over his 13 years in the ECM industry, he has led a wide-range of efforts including content digitization, Records Management, BPM, and Collaboration for both the commercial and public sectors. Laurence has worked with a wide variety of vendors over the years and is sure that the list will continue to change. He is a member of the AIIM iECM committee and an outspoken advocate for the CMIS standard. 8 Things You Need to Know About the CMIS Standard 1 — CMIS is A Content Management Domain Model with Protocol Bindings. CMIS is not a new interface into your content repository. At its core, it is a…