SharePoint Magazine

A common word that keeps popping up around SharePoint deployments is “Governance,” as if it will help you avoid chaos and have a more successful deployment. The answer is, when executed properly, it can.

As a CFO and senior business executive would life be better if all your commercial information, everything from files and documents to LOB systems were all accountable and controllable from one platform or portal?

It’s been a long while since I wrote the last part and had to find myself reading through all three parts again to realize how much my SharePoint knowledge has matured since then. This is something familiar to a lot of people in the SharePoint community that are evolving at a rate of knots with the Platform.

Just as companies have implemented email archiving systems to better manage their ever-growing volumes of email records, an increasing number are doing the same for their SharePoint records. SEC Rule 17a-4, HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are just a few of the laws and regulations requiring companies to actively monitor employee communications.

This the third post of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. In the last post I explained some of the great things that can be implemented. In this post I will introduce the Governance, the People and the Approach that needs to surround SharePoint.

As a business executive you may be aware that SharePoint, capable of delivering considerable and rapid business value, can just as quickly end up off-track producing a disaster.