In article titled The Psychology of Repository Permanence , Deane writes: " I’ve worked in a fair amount of companies, and consulted with many others, and I’m starting to believe that a lot of the problems each one has had with document management boils down to one thing: lack of perceived permanence. My Comments. MORE >>

Here is the chart for Healthcare (19 responses): In comparison to the Overall Analysis: "Providing document management services" is the most frequently used area for SharePoint by healthcare organizations, followed by "Supporting team collaboration" and "Publishing Intranet content." MORE >>

  As evidence, the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) reports that collaboration is the strongest driver of SharePoint adoption. This finding supports the view that SharePoint is primarily a user-oriented collaboration system with the included secondary value of providing document management.   MORE >>

Forrester has release their report, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2011 , by Alan Weintraub with Stephen Powers and Anjali Yakkundi. Forrester uses 66-criteria to evaluate enterprise content management (ECM) vendors. It has the subtitle, EMC, IBM, OpenText, and Oracle Lead, with Microsoft Close Behind. MORE >>

Key points: - Organizations around the world are moving towards integrated platforms for document management, records management, and collaboration. The design when using SharePoint for collaboration, Web content management, document management, and records management are different. MORE >>