In this blog post we do a deep dive into Collabware CLM 2016's auto declaration capabilities.

In Daniel Pink’s Drive, he notes how money or similar rewards are only successful at motivating us to do the most basic of tasks (think stacking boxes). To motivate individuals around activities that require more cognition, he suggests, supported by scientific research, that we are primarily driven by three factors: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Metadata on our SharePoint documents can and often are part of the record itself, however there are valid reasons for changing metadata from time to time. This blog explains how to update records in SharePoint being managed by Collabware without having to undeclare your records.

One of the most common questions that have come up over the past five years as I’ve been focussing on SharePoint Records Management is whether or not to leverage in place records management or use record centers for records management in SharePoint. This blog outlines the benefits of adopting a hybrid approach that leverages both.

One of the activities that needs to happen when upgrading Collabware 2.X to 2016 is reviewing and publishing all the workflows that Collabware creates, as part of the upgrade process, to replace your retention policies. This blog outlines out to create list of all the unpublished workflows.

Leveraging Collabware's audit trail and auto-classification capabilities to ensure you've categorized everything in SharePoint allows you to keep on top of your compliance, ensuring you're compliant now and in the future.

Content types and their associated metadata add tremendous value to large scale SharePoint ECM projects. They can improve search and findability, enable workflows and even automate compliance. While there isn’t a one-size-fits-all design pattern that suits all organizations, this blog sheds some light on how to approach this fundamental SharePoint ECM topic that is just as much an art as it is a science.