Better Together

Traditionally, ECM only touched a relatively small user community, and applications in this world were highly specific to a critical business process. But Microsoft has changed the ECM world by offering core content management capability to all users in an organization through their desktop environment. This dramatically increases the amount of content under management and replaces file systems over time. It is clear that through the Microsoft infrastructure a much more systematic approach to managing all unstructured content in an organization becomes possible.

Microsoft SharePoint adoption is an increasing trend in most industries and Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology is no exception. What was a very early-adopter trend two years ago with large pharmaceuticals like Pfizer and Eli Lilly is now becoming mainstream. Most organizations have, or plan to have some element of SharePoint within their overall ECM infrastructure. A common question for most companies is “How will SharePoint and my EDMS work together?”

Today’s mainstream ECM vendors provide customers with both infrastructure enhancements to the Microsoft stack as well as business solutions that run on top of the infrastructure. Organizations will continue to look to SharePoint as a user friendly end user interface that can help to rollout the ECM infrastructure and applications to other parts of the organization.