Hello from ARMA / Hey, where did you go?

I owe everyone an apology… Getting ready for the ARMA International conference this week (I’m writing this post in the Expo hall here in San Antonio) and working through the last few weeks of getting the 2007 Office system ready to release didn’t leave me with enough time to keep this blog as “fresh” as we’d all like.

Please don’t take this to mean that we’re done introducing our Records Management capabilities in Exchange & Office 2007– far from it. In the next few posts we’ll start talking about e-mail records management (a huge problem space for so many organizations today), our efforts around getting Office SharePoint Server 2007 certified for the Department of Defense’s 5015.2 standard, and much more.

And this coming week alone there will be several items on this blog, including the announcement of a new collaboration with a major records management solution provider that we’ll be unveiling at ARMA.

So please stay tuned!

- Ethan Gur-esh, Program Manager.

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  October 23, 2006
  >our efforts around getting Office SharePoint >Server 2007 certified for the Department of >Defense’s 5015.2 standard Ethan, What about Sharepoint Server's compliance with non-US standards, such as MOREQ? Regards, Eldin (one of several million non-US Microsoft customers!)

• Anonymous
  October 24, 2006
  Ethan, The collaboration announcement begs the question:  will the Office/Echange/SharePoint apps for 07 be able to "go it alone" with regard to enterprise RM -- or to put it another way, if they can, as many of the posts seems to suggest (i.e., DoD 5015.2 certifidation), why do you need to collaborate with a major RM software vendor?  At first glance, implementing the 07 Office/Echange/SharePoint including support for RM would be an obvious advantage for small or mid-size organizations who may not be able to fund an implementation of a 5015.2 cert app to do recordkeeping.   Regards, and like what I'm seeing in this blog.... UTBundy

• Anonymous
  October 27, 2006
  @ UTBundy: Firstly, thanks for the kind feedback. Now that the announcement of our collaboration with Iron Mountain has been made public (see http://blogs.msdn.com/recman/archive/2006/10/25/iron-mountain-and-microsoft-collaboration.aspx ), hopefully the answer to this question is a bit clearer – we’re collaborating with a major RM services provider. :) We absolutely agree that for many organizations “going it alone” (as you put it) with our 2007 releases will be appropriate for their enterprise RM needs. That said, we’re actively working with partners in the RM community, on both the software and services sides. There are different rationales for each collaboration – including providing good interoperability for customers who’ve already got other RM software in place, helping address the needs of customers in particular industries/jurisdictions who may require specific functionalities or certifications we don’t plan to pursue for the 2007 releases, etc. The unifying strategy behind these collaborations is that they’re all about meeting the current & emerging RM needs of our customers – where it makes the most sense for us to do that by “going it alone”, that’s what we’ll do. Where partners can help us get to a better overall solution for our customers, we’ll explore those approaches as well. Hope this helps clarify,

• Ethan Gur-esh, Program Manager.

• Anonymous
  October 30, 2006
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