Are you using Sharepoint for your document repository?

One of the cool features that SBS 2003 brought us is Sharepoint. Now we know that the default intranet site included with SBS 2003 is running on Sharepoint. But have you extended your Sharepoint site yet? This is one up and coming item that a lot of Small Businesses are focused on. Right now I'm working with an Insurance Agency that has a TON of paper documents. They are considering moving to Sharepoint for all of their shared storage.

One of the tech savvy employees mentioned to me that she has been comfortable with using Scansoft in the past and the Paperport product. She was impressed that right in the advertising for the new version, Paperport is mentioned as being the seamless integration between the paper document and the content management system. This truly is a great way right now in my opinion for scanners and scanner software to get their items noticed. Sharepoint is something that is a free add-in with SBS and Windows Server 2003 and being able to add real value in your business is being able to get rid of all of those piles of documents and placing it into a full blown searchable repository. Just don't forget that in order to get that full text feature you need SBS Premium with SQL thrown in.

Have a look at Sharepoint. If you've got a networked document scanner, are you really that far away from getting all of your information into Sharepoint and going paperless? Nope didn't think so either.