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When it comes to departmental file sharing or collaborative workspaces, Microsoft's SharePoint has legions of fans in midsized companies. But for those not interested in paying for SharePoint (the basic version is free), or who find some features immature in the latest version, there are SharePoint alternatives.

The move to MOSS 2007 seems to be natural once users install Office 2007.

Midmarket companies accounted for 35% of the respondents, and among this group, half said price was not an inhibitor for MOSS deployments. Although nearly half -- 46% -- said the price was higher than they expected.

Enterprise 2.0 is not about implementing Web 2.0 tools inside a company. It is about the transformation of a company to be aligned in this new world of work.

The real transformation it is about a new architecture of companies and help them make ready for the next 20 years of business.

To understand that the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 is more than the implementation of a single or a set of tools, think about these 10 themes around Enterprise 2.0. These themes envision the angles of every company that needs to be changed to fully adopt the Enterprise 2.0 vision.

What's the relationship between a document management system (DMS) and an enterprise collaboration suite like Socialtext?

Would Socialtext replace the DMS? Would the two work together?

The first thing that companies should understand is that document management and collaboration are distinct activities.

Records management, or RM, is the practice of identifying, classifying, archiving, preserving, and destroying records. The ISO 15489: 2001 standard defines it as "The field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records".

records management can be seen as being primarily concerned with the identification and management of the evidence of an organization's business activities.

Enterprise content integration (ECI) is a middleware software technology that connects together all computer systems that manage documents and digital content (Enterprise content management, Document management, Groupware, Records management…)

An integrated library system, or ILS, is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed.

An ILS is usually comprised of a relational database, software to act on that database, and two graphical user interfaces (one for patrons, one for staff). Most ILSes separate software functions into discrete programs called modules, which are then integrated into a unified interface. Examples of modules include: acquisitions (ordering, receiving, and invoicing materials), cataloging (classifying and indexing materials), circulation (lending materials to patrons and receiving them back), serials (tracking magazine and newspaper holdings), and the OPAC (public interface for users). Each patron and item has a unique ID in the database that allows the ILS to track its activity.

In the United Kingdom, ILSes are sometimes referred to as "library management systems".

Document management systems Alfresco Cognidox ColumbiaSoft Content Manager Computhink's ViewWise DocCenter's DocLanding DocPoint Documentum Filehold FileNet Hummingbird DM Hyland Software's OnBase ImageNow by Perceptive Software ImagePlus Infonic Document Manager UK Interwoven's Worksite Invu ISIS Papyrus KnowledgeTree Laserfiche Livelink Main//Pyrus DMS M-Files Nuxeo O³Spaces Objective OpenKM Oracle's Stellent Questys Solutions Redmap Report2Web SAP KM&C SAP Netweaver Saperion Scanfile SharePoint Teamwork TRIM Context Version One Ltd Xerox Docushare

A document management system (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. The term has some overlap with the concepts of Content Management Systems and is often viewed as a component of Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECM) and related to Digital Asset Management, Document imaging, Workflow systems and Records Management systems. Contract Management and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) can be viewed as either components or implementations of ECM.

Digital Asset Management consists of tasks and decisions surrounding ingesting, annotating, cataloguing, storage and retrieval of digital assets, such as digital photographs, animations, videos and music. Digital asset management systems are computer software and/or hardware systems that aid in the process of digital asset management. The term "Digital Asset Management" (DAM) also refers to the protocol for downloading, renaming, backing up, rating, grouping, archiving, optimizing, maintaining, thinning, and exporting files.

The term "Media Asset Management" (MAM) is sometimes used as a sub-category of "Digital Asset Management", mainly for audio or video content. The more recent concept of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) often describes solutions which address similar features but in a wider range of industries or applications.

Enterprise social software, also known as Enterprise 2.0, is a term describing social software used in "enterprise" (business) contexts. It includes social and networked modifications to company intranets and other classic software platforms used by large companies to organize their communication. In contrast to traditional enterprise software, which imposes structure prior to use, this generation of software tends to encourage use prior to providing structure. The association AIIMdefines Enterprise 2.0 as a system of web-based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise.

I'm not satisfied with my earlier definition of Enterprise 2.0, so let's propose a refinement (I'm sorry if this feels a bit pedantic, but clear constructs are important to academics): Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers.

Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities. (Wikipedia's definition).

Platforms are digital environments in which contributions and interactions are globally visible and persistent over time.

Corporate taxonomy is the hierarchical classification of entities of interest of an enterprise, organization or administration, used to classify documents, digital assets and other information.

Corporate taxonomies are increasingly used in information systems (particularly content management and knowledge management systems), as a way to allow instant access to the right information within exponentially growing volumes of data in learning organizations.

Information intelligence: Content classification and enterprise taxonomy practice. Delphi Group. 2004. Last checked 8/20/07. This whitepaper defines taxonomy and classification within an enterprise information architecture, analyzes trends in taxonomy software applications, and provides examples of approaches to using this technology to solve business problems.

Web 3.0 is one of the terms used to describe the evolutionary stage of the Web that follows Web 2.0. Given that technical and social possibilities identified in this latter term are yet to be fully realized the nature of defining Web 3.0 is highly speculative.

Views on the next stage of the World Wide Web's evolution vary greatly, from the concept of emerging technologies such as the Semantic Web transforming the way the Web is used (and leading to new possibilities in artificial intelligence) to the observation that increases in Internet connection speeds, modular web applications, and advances in computer graphics will play the key role in the evolution of the World Wide Web.

The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web culture communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media and electronic text.[1] CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content.

There are three main categories of CMS, with their respective domains of use: Enterprise CMS Web CMS Component CMS