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Social Computing Crossover Features
With the convergence of ECM and collaboration/social areas, there are many crossover features
that you can take advantage of on your intranet - or Internet - facing site that live in both worlds. For
example, you can use the tagging and rating system built into SharePoint 2010 to build internal
social communities or for external customer social communities. You can use social bookmarking
internally or for external sites. The list goes on and on, but the key thing is that ECM and the social
area are coming together, so the features you see in either area are applicable to the other, and
they ’ re all built on the common SharePoint platform.
What ’ s New in ECM: Digital Asset Management
If you are using SharePoint 2007, you probably have run into the limitations around SharePoint ’ s
support for digital assets. Storing and streaming media from SharePoint 2007 is not effi cient and
SharePoint 2007 does not understand images or other rich media as deeply as you want. With 2010,
much of this is remedied by the new support for digital asset management in the product.
Digital Asset Content Types
SharePoint 2010 supports content types out of the box for the most common digital assets,
including video, audio, and images. As part of these content types, audio and video properties are
supported, including data rates, frame height, width and rate, preview image URLs, and copyrights.
By including a content type, you can leverage the rest of the SharePoint functionality to manage
these types of data, including workfl ow and records management.
Bit Rate Throttling with IIS
To ensure that you stream the media out of the server, SharePoint 2010 supports bit rate throttling
in Internet Information Server (IIS). The bit rate throttle reduces the bit rate of the media download
to the correct speed based on the data rate of the source video. By doing this, media serving can scale
better, and you get reduced cost for your bandwidth, because fewer users drop out after 20% of the
video has played; you ’ ve throttled the usage rather than trying to deliver the entire video to the user at
maximum speed. The easiest way to think about bit throttling is as just - in - time delivery of the content.
Content Rating
You will see many of the social computing features cross over into the ECM world, as there are
requirements to manage social content just like any other digital content. With the Digital Asset
Management (DAM) pieces of SharePoint, you can use content rating to rate the content so that
only the highest - rated content is displayed or returned in search results.
Remote BLOB Storage
To support binary large object (BLOB) fi les, such as videos, SharePoint supports a remote BLOB
storage provider model. This model requires drivers from your storage provider, and once confi gured,
the provider allows you to move the BLOBs from SQL Server to the location that the provider
supports. SharePoint will maintain transactional consistency between the metadata stored in SQL
Server and the BLOB. With this capability, you can move the BLOB to cheaper storage than SQL or
to a store that is optimized for the type of content that you ’ re working with. SharePoint will support
What ’ s New in ECM
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