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Microsoft SharePoint gets search, file sharing features

SharePoint third party providers Captaris ; Epok bolster server
By John Fontana , Network World , 09/29/2008
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Data capture vendor Captaris and security software developer Epok have developed add-ons to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 that let users search on document images and securely extend file creation and sharing across corporate boundaries.
Captaris, best known for its RightFax software for distributing faxes, recently introduced the TIFF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The iFilter takes an image, scans it using optical character recognition (OCR) technology, and then stores it in SharePoint along with all its meta data. The resulting file is then available for discovery by SharePoint’s search engine.

IFilter components are used by Microsoft Indexing Service and other Microsoft Search-based products, such as SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange Full Text Search and SQL Server FTS.

Captaris, which is in the process of being acquired by OpenText, thinks paper-centric industries benefit the most from its TIFF iFilter such as insurance, governments, health care and financial services.

The iFilter supports Windows Server 2003 and 2008 and works on both 32- and 64-bit versions of the Windows OS, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server.

The Captaris TIFF iFilter comes in three editions: Standard (for two core systems), Pro (four core systems) and Enterprise (unlimited cores).

Standard is priced starting at $299. Pro starts at $499, and Enterprise pricing will be announced before the end of the year.

SharePoint is Microsoft’s fastest growing enterprise software in its history and the company counts 100 million licenses and more than a $1 billion in revenue, according to figures released this summer. The platform also is attracting third-party vendors driven to plug some of the gaps in the platform.

Earlier versions of SharePoint had support for TIFF images, but it was dropped in the 2007 version of SharePoint. Microsoft released a Filter Pack for SharePoint in Dec. 2007, and specifically made apologies for the absence of the TIFF filter in the release.

Experts have also said that SharePoint has gaps in its access control story.

Epok in particular is attacking that need with an update to its cross-organization access management software called Epok Edition for SharePoint version 2.4. The platform extends user authentication to a company’s partners.

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Epok's Solution to SharePoint Gaps in Access ControlBy Anonymous on October 21, 2008, 1:09 pmI came across the post from Epok's blog site, The Authority Net [http://research.epokinc.com/blog/], that specifically addresses their solution to the access control...

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myDocs -- Outlook integration for SharePointBy Anonymous on October 16, 2008, 6:51 amWe have a tool integrated with Outlook that allows document and email management. There is more information on this at http://www.nsynergy.com/Products/myDocs/Pages/About_myDocs.aspx...

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Microsoft's External Collaboration Toolkit for Sharepoint can help here too!By Anonymous on September 30, 2008, 3:15 pmMicrosoft has a freely available tool for download called the External Collaboration Toolkit for Sharepoint which is intended to help with extranet access scenarios....

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