KnowledgeLake Whitepapers

Accounts Payable Automation: The Transition from Paper to Painless

This white paper takes a comprehensive look into how businesses can leverage AP Automation to reduce costs, enhance worker productivity and improve their ability to drive more to their bottom line. The paper closely examines the benefits, value and ROI that AP automation can bring to an organization.

The paper also ties in the advantages of leveraging KnowledgeLake technology and Microsoft SharePoint, and explains how our clients are doing more with less by implementing the low-risk, cost-effective solution.

Doculabs White Paper - From Shared Drives to SharePoint: A Methodology

The problem with shared drives is one of the most significant information management challenges facing corporations today. Gigabytes, terabytes, and increasingly even petabytes of documents and other unstructured content have been accumulating on corporate shared drives over the last two decades, and the pace of growth shows no signs of stopping.

Organizations are now beginning to understand that continued reliance on shared drives presents enormous costs, in the form of operational inefficiency, increased legal and compliance costs, and higher IT costs. It also presents enormous risks: operational risk, legal and compliance risk, and IT risk.

In this white paper, Doculabs assesses the magnitude of the shared drive problem and outlines an effective solution: moving from shared drives to Microsoft SharePoint. Then Doculabs provides a proven methodology that you can use to get the shared drive-to-SharePoint migration right.

SharePoint 2010 Enables the Enterprise

This SharePoint 2010 white paper discusses the pros and cons of multiple versus single platforms, the evolution of SharePoint, new SharePoint 2010 features that target enterprise requirements, what content management features Microsoft believes SharePoint now handles adequately on its own, and which require partner ecosystem solutions.

Imaging with SharePoint and Microsoft Office - Written by Chris Caplinger CTO of KnowledgeLake

Since the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2001, users have realized that by using the storage capabilities of SharePoint Products and Technologies, documents can be stored, archived and used for collaboration. SharePoint was also a great way for users to get their feet wet with ECM since it was being delivered as part of the platform their organization already had in place or would likely implement in the near future.

However, even though most Microsoft Office products have out-of-the-box integration for SharePoint there are still some missing parts for a true Document Imaging solution. What Microsoft left out of the product is covered by a larger and stronger ISV community than any other vendor.

KnowledgeLake Connect 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Integration for Any Application

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies have emerged as a successful new generation of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. This whitepaper is aimed at organizations that have implemented SharePoint and are interested in creating even more information worker productivity; and how to overcome the challenges with deploying a production electronic document management solution.

Using creative technology like KnowledgeLake Connect, an organization can significantly enhance SharePoint’s native ability to acquire and manage electronic content. This technical overview of KnowledgeLake Connect provides intimate details of product functionality, line of business integration and how to extend SharePoint 2010 for Enterprise Document Imaging.

SharePoint Records Management

This whitepaper is a full-chapter excerpt of the book "SharePoint Server 2010: Enterprise Content Management" and covers the following:

• Why is Records Management important?
• Records Management Planning
• Managing Records - Recordization & Information Management Policy
• Retention & Auditing
• eDiscovery
• Leveraging Microsoft SharePoint APIs

ECM Connection Talks with KnowledgeLake About SharePoint Migrations

​About Microsoft SharePoint, one thing is certain - it's popular. Love it or hate it, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone involved or interested in ECM that didn't have at least a basic knowledge of SharePoint. Despite it's popularity, however, SharePoint continues to raise questions in the minds of users and potential users everywhere. Why SharePoint? How do you make the move to SharePoint? Is it Worth it? ECM Connection recently spoke with Ron Cameron, president and co-founder of KnowledgeLake, to explore these questions.

Building a Scalable SharePoint ECM Architecture

This whitepaper is a full-chapter excerpt of the book "SharePoint Server 2010: Enterprise Content Management" and covers the following:

• Building a storage architecture
• Scaling the topology
• Architecting a scalable taxonomy
• Tuning SharePoint performance

Case Study: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability

This white paper presents the key decision points, architecture design and definition, test criteria and results from a scalability and performance test conducted at the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) in Redmond, WA. This was a collaborative partnership between Fujitsu Computers, Microsoft and KnowledgeLake.

The SharePoint Puzzle - Adding the missing pieces

SharePoint has evolved from a somewhat lowly position to become the Swiss army knife of corporate IT departments, promising collaboration, team and project management, electronic content management (ECM), intranets and portals, records management, and more - straight out-of-the-box, and with over 70% of organizations having deployed SharePoint in some form, it appears to be here to stay.

In this report we look at why organizations selected SharePoint in the first place, how it has performed against expectations, which parts of SharePoint businesses are using for ECM, collaboration, social, and business process management (BPM), and where gaps have been identified. We explore how organizations are adding these missing pieces with SharePoint add-ons, 3rd party extensions and cloud services. Finally we look at spend predictions for SharePoint-related software and services in the coming 12 months.

Scaling SharePoint 2007: Storage Architecture

Updated June 2009

The whitepaper has been updated with new information regarding server virtualization options, storage subsystem comparison, and general prescriptive guidance. It also contains new information gained from recent SharePoint Master training in Redmond, WA.

SQL Server 2008 R2 Remote Blob Storage Overview

Microsoft has published a new Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) whitepaper which was authored by Russ Houberg of KnowledgeLake. After providing an overview of RBS and its use cases, the whitepaper dives deep into nuts and bolts concepts and implementation guidance of the SQL Server 2008 R2 RBS Feature Pack which includes the FILESTREAM RBS provider.