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I attended the breakout sessions presented by Fujitsu and Kofax. Given that it’s standing-room-only in here, there seems to be a lot of interest in document imaging and how it relates to MOSS.

Fujitsu presented a single MOSS case study (an integration of Knowledge Lake Capture with MOSS for HR files at Build-a-Bear Workshop), but the rest of the session focused on the general business case for document imaging projects. While I personally agree with most of the business cases presented, it would have been nice to hear more about specific examples of MOSS and document imaging integrations. Of course, that could be tricky if there aren’t many (which I assume is the case only because MOSS is relatively new). Given that, it might have been good to hear more about how exactly Knowledge Lake Capture was integrated into MOSS and how (in general terms) MOSS was structured to accept many thousands of images.

Kofax provided a good overview of their application, a backend-agnostic document capture tool that can capture images from various sources (electronic or scanned paper) in either a centralized or distributed model, and even from MFPs. In terms of information related to a MOSS integration, there was very little offered in the way of specifics outside of mentioning that Kofax has a MOSS release script. I asked whether Kofax has any specific case studies they could share about document imaging in MOSS and the presenter noted that there are several on the Kofax website, including one about an organization that is scanning 60 million images a month into MOSS. I’ll track that down and include a link once I find it.

I’m a bit disappointed that there wasn’t more focus on document imaging related to MOSS, especially given that Kofax apparently has a case study on this exact topic. The background on Kofax was interesting, but I would expect that many attendees of a “SharePoint Meets ECM” session have at least a working knowledge of Kofax (and they can easily find out more if necessary). Recognizing that these sessions are time-constrained, I would have derived more value from a quick review of MOSS-specific case studies. That’s not to say that these sessions weren’t useful, just that they would be more valuable if there was more focus on MOSS.

Looks like the next session will focus squarely on MOSS. Dave Larson from Project Leadership Associates will present on the topic: “Has SharePoint Evolved into a Viable ECM Solution?” Should be interesting.

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