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Michael Elkins (melkins@kestralgroup.com) is an independent consultant with over 17 years of experience helping global clients with the design and deployment of enterprise wide content management systems. His clients benefit from his ECM experience including strategic guidance, information architecture and ECM/data governance programs. His company, Kestral Group LLC, is based in Denver, Colorado. With any ECM deployment, it is important to have a solid implementation plan to be successful. When combining multiple content solutions, it is critical. Unfortunately, many SharePoint implementations are more organic than well thought out. SharePoint sites are often created with little thought with respect to long term use. As a result, when it comes to linking into another ECM solution, users are hit with unexpected changes and restrictions to sites they have become accustomed to. Understanding the functionality people use, or expect to use, from each system is vital to the successful blending of the capabilities. This list of things to consider is not an exhaustive list, but is intended to help get the planning process started. 8 Things to Consider when Implementing SharePoint with Another ECM engine 1 -- Determine SharePoint’s role in the organization. For some companies, SharePoint is the chosen collaboration and social...