What is new in SharePoint 2010 ECM Capabilities

I will start by giving overview about SharePoint’s big picture, and then I will state the SharePoint ECM offerings

The SharePoint 2010 server is most powerful Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web

The old Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is now rebranded to be SharePoint Foundation 2010, it contains the core SharePoint services as shown in the above figure.

The full SharePoint Server big picture is show in the above figure , I will focus on the ECM part of SharePoint Server in this postThe SharePoint ECM stack starting form the core ECM functionality ending up to different types of clients is shown in the above figure.

SharePoint 2010 ECM Capabilities can be summarized in the following features:
•Highly Scalable Document Libraries Sized Millions of documents
•Enhanced Office Integration
•Record Management
In Place Record Management
Separate Records Repository
•Rich Media Management
Digital Media Streaming (Images, Video, Audio)
•More Scalable Architecture
•Managed Meta Data Services provides
Meta data driven navigation with custom Filters
Meta data driven Search
Easy to use user Interaction with metadata such as (custome column of type metadata and suggestions)
Mange Metadata Across the Farms, Site Collections
•Content Organizer Engine
•Highly Scalable Document Libraries Sized Millions of documents
•Record Management
In Place Record Management
Separate Records Repository
•More Scalable Architecture
Integration with – FAST! lead to Better Search Scalability Redundant for Indexing – Integrated no longer single point of failure
•Office Web Apps from browser without having to have the office clinet inistalled on the client machine
•Offline with SharePoint Workspace
•Claims based authentication