SharePoint and Business Process Management

I’m headed down to Boston tomorrow for the AIIM seminar: "Automating Document-Centric Processes: Is SharePoint Enough?". I’m looking forward to hearing from vendors and end users alike about how far SharePoint has actually come in terms of Business Process Management and Business Process Automation. There is little question that SharePoint adoption is still hot. In fact, at our Paper Connection Forum last week, 4 of our 6 Best Practices winners are in the process of rolling out SharePoint or are already using it enterprise-wide.

However, the big question seems to be whether the technology can move from a hosted document library and collaboration tool to a technology that sits at the core of business processes.  For example, of those customers at our event last week that I mentioned, every deployment of SharePoint was focused on collaboration and content management, not business processes. I think a big part of this is a lack of understanding and I hope that tomorrow will shed some light on the topic. What do you think? What have you observed? And what would you like to find out about it? I’ll be writing a post following the seminar and would be interested to compare your thoughts to those of the seminar attendees.

And if you are interested in more information on this topic, please register for the November 19th AIIM Webinar, Automating Document-Centric Processes within SharePoint.

Comments

[Bob Zagami]

Tristam,

I hope we will have a chance to meet and talk about your involvement with AIIM at the Boston event tomorrow.

While Sharepoint is certainly an intersting topic, we don't see a lot of acceptance as a document management platform, but do see it evolving as an excellent collaboration tool.

Bob Zagami
Chairman
AIIM International Board of Directors

[Rusty Russel]

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[Christian Steven]

Business process management, or optimistically called, business process automation, seeks a more sophisticated way to boost productivity.

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