WISDOM for SharePoint - Is it Top Shelf Document Management?

By David Roe (@druadh20) Oct 28, 2009 Comments

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SharePoint junkies who still haven’t had their fill after last week’s Las Vegas hoedown might be interested in the release this week of new document management software designed to run on top of SharePoint, but improve upon its abilities. This fancy concept is called WISDOM for SharePoint. Let's see just how sage it is.

WISDOM hails from Australian-based MacroView (news, site) who have entered into partnership with Nashville-based SharePoint Solutions (news, site), who in turn will be responsible for distributing and integrating MacroView's WISDOM line in the U.S.

MacroView says that without extended document management capabilities SharePoint would not be as popular as it is and that WISDOM offers a collection of features that puts it head and shoulders above the rest. Well, at least as good as the best of the rest!

SharePoint Solutions Add-Ons

The above is no small claim. And there are a number of features that should prove attractive.There is also the SharePoint Solutions connection, a company that has specialized in developing SharePoint add-ons to fill some of the key gaps that exist in SharePoint out-of-the-box.

In recent months alone there are a few that in themselves are worth a mention. In August, for example, SharePoint solutions introduced SharePoint Data Zoom extensions which made accessing and integrating SQL database information from and with SharePoint easier.

In June it introduced an extension for Salesforce that enable users pull data from Salesforce.com into SharePoint for viewing in specific formats, and allowed them share information with other users who did not have a Salesforce account.

And at the end of December last year it released the Workflow Essentials that improved the ability of users to create workflows in SharePoint Designer.

MacroView and SharePoint 2007

So in reality, SharePoint Solutions’ credentials for developing add-ons are sound. But this new document management software has not been designed by SharePoint solutions, it comes from MacroView.

The starting point for MacroView is that although there are some out-of-the-box document management capabilities with SharePoint, for companies that are dealing with thousands, or even millions of documents in different locations daily, it just doesn’t compare with Documentum, Open Text or Interwoven, forcing many enterprises to use two different systems.

MacroView, however, says its new document software will change this. As a completely native SharePoint add-on, WISDOM DMF (Document Management Framework) gives users the power to store and retrieve documents from hundreds — and even thousands — of SharePoint libraries with a tree-view navigation of all sites, libraries and server farms.

Aall this is available through Microsoft Office client applications including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

What Comes With WISDOM?

So what do you get with WISDOM Document Management Framework (DMF). There are a number of features which, MacroView says, will catapult it into the top tier of document management software packages.