Big City Metadata Tour - Pingar and Partners visit big cities to talk about how to get more value out of your SharePoint. John Peltonen, of 3Sharp, joined Owen for a joint presentation.
2. Agenda
Who is Pingar
3 Customer Scenarios
Who is 3Sharp
4 Steps to Sanity
Q and A
3. Who is ?
Pingar provides document understanding
tools and technologies, improving the way
organizations interact with content.
The technology tags documents so users
don’t need to, increasing user
adoption, bringing unstructured content into
structured processes and improving search.
Pingar enabled organizations are finding
content faster, making users lives easier, and
improving business processes.
4. What does Pingar do?
Pingar App for SharePoint reads the content of documents and
automatically extracts keywords or phrases
Not only keywords, also specific objects like
people, places, times, dates, etc. 14 entities in total including
custom
Automatically Populates document libraries with the right
metadata
This helps SharePoint users find the content they need
5. Regain Control!
1. Put Information at your users’ fingertips
2. Act on your information with Business
Processes
3. Increase user adoption
4. Mitigate Risk
6. Why Pingar for SharePoint?
Information at your Fingertips
Improve Findability
Know what a document is about without opening
Automatic search refiners
Greater data consistency and integrity
“We used the Pingar API to extract search
terms from SharePoint documents and
used them to filter search results and to
streamline delivery,”
-- Steve Hollowood, delivery manager,
portals and productivity,
Coles, Australia
7.
8. Why Pingar for SharePoint?
Increases user adoption
Knowledge workers HATE entering metadata
Make document contribution faster for users
Information Architects, Content Managers, & Legal will thank you
9. Why Pingar for SharePoint?
Increases compliance
Because you have more consistent metadata
Ability to identify content by meaning
Judges don’t accept “I searched” as a valid argument
Brings unstructured into the structured world
Without metadata you can’t do BI or BigData
Execute workflow based on documents
Unlock the latent business value in documents
10. Who is John Peltonen?
Partner & Architect
Focused on SharePoint
solutions since 2002
Pingar Gold Partner
Favorite work pastime
is drawing boxes on
whiteboards
johnp@3sharp.com
12. Regain Control!
1. Put Information at your users’ fingertips
2. Act on your information with Business
Processes
3. Increase user adoption
4. Mitigate Risk
13. What we see -
Common Lifecycle of a Portal:
Ready!
Acquire software and hardware
Install SharePoint
Fire!
Announce portal via email
Provide some basic training (lists/libraries/etc)
Aim!
Document Assessment
Business Process Assessment
Governance Plan
Etc…
14. What good is a
life-sized map of
the world?
SharePoint isn’t
necessarily falling
down due to lack
of metadata, but it
makes it that much
harder to find
things
15. This clock is right twice a day!
Without control
and understanding
of your
documents, ShareP
oint is not getting
everything
wrong, but it isn’t
as functional as it
could be!
17. This rope is still holding something up
Which documents in your
organization have legal or
corporate retention policies?
How easy would it be for
you to find all documents
related to a specific
customer or location?
18. 4 Steps to Sanity
1. Analyze your content
2. Identify your users and use cases
3. Encourage quality metadata automatically
4. Make everything easy for your users
You will not get all of these implemented at once!
Ship early and ship often and learn from your
mistakes
19. 1. Document Assessment
• What kinds of documents are created in your
organization?
• What templates are (or should be) used for each
document?
• What metadata is appropriate for each document?
• Where should the document be stored at each stage of
its lifecycle?
• What access rights should be given at each stage?
• How does the document flow through the organization
during its lifecycle?
• Is this document a corporate record that has special
archival/retention policies?
20. 1. Document Assessment
• This involves more than just you…
• Lots of leg work
– Various business divisions
– Legal
– IT
• Stack rank documents in order of business impact
– ROI
– Legal/Compliance regulations
– Etc
21. Sample File Plan Headings
• Document Type Analyze Document Usage Spreadsheet
• Document Purpose
• Document Template
• Metadata
• Workflow Process
• Author Role
• User Role
• Other Roles
• Format
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=165873
• Location
See also:
Plan content types and workflows in SharePoint 2013
22. 2. User Assessment
• Who in your organization creates documents?
• What kinds of documents do they create?
• What role does the user of the document have?
– Who reviews documents?
– Who edits documents?
– Who uses documents?
– Who approves the publication of documents?
– Who designs websites used for hosting documents?
– Who sets guidelines and policies for managing documents?
– Who manages records in your organization?
– Who deploys and maintains the servers on which documents
are stored?
See: Identify users and analyze document usage in SharePoint 2013
23. 2. User Assessment
• Author Document Management Participants Worksheet
• Document Type
• Consumer
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=165871
24. 3. Encourage Quality Metadata
Where does quality consistent metadata come from?
• File (author, modified date)
• Automatic (computer generated based on content
within document)
• Business Process (artifacts of workflows such as
approval status, storage location)
• User (manually entered)
25. 4. Make things EASY
1. Content Types
Promoted properties from within
Great for high-profile Word Documents
document types and
storage locations 2. Folders
Location-based metadata defaults
Great for ALL
document types! 3. Pingar!
Automatic discovery of
keywords, locations, entities, user
s, custom taxonomy terms and
more!
27. Regain Control!
1. Put Information at your users’ fingertips
2. React better to your information with Business
Processes
3. Increase user adoption
4. Mitigate Risk
28. Q&A
Owen Allen John Peltonen
Vice President - Pingar Partner - 3Sharp
Owen.allen@pingar.com johnp@3sharp.com
1-855-PINGAR-1 425.882.1032
Editor's Notes
You’re not done, but you have taken great strides in getting information to the fingertips of your users with structured and unstructured metadata, you’ve made it easy for business processes such as organizational workflows to access the important metadata hidden within your document, you’ve mitigated corporate risk by applying retention policies and approval workflows where necessary, and you’ve set the stage for user adoption by making it easier for users to both work with and discover documents!Not bad for a 40 minute seminar!