DNN Document Management with Sharepoint Integration

Below are a few tips and best practices to consider if you’re planning to integrate Sharepoint into your DotNetNuke (DNN) website.
 

Document Management With SharePoint

SharePoint is the preeminent document management system for businesses of all sizes. Using SharePoint, which is built into the cloud for maximum storage and accessibility, team members can share and collaborate on a seemingly unlimited amount of documents and data. SharePoint integrates well with Outlook and leverages social tools to heighten the collaborative, organized atmosphere. It also allows team members to turn raw data into beautiful, interactive reports.

DNN Enterprise integrates automatically with SharePoint, which means if you operate this system, no further work is required. However, even DNN Community can integrate with SharePoint fairly easily via custom modules. The key is to design a system that allows SharePoint to communicate with your public-facing website from behind a firewall. That means you’ll be able to push documents to a portal on your DNN website safely and efficiently. You can also design filter rules to determine where individual documents go.

If you use SharePoint as your document management system and want to integrate it into your website, then DNN Evoq Content Enterprise Edition may be worth the investment and could very well end up saving you money on a custom integration. The DNN Enterprise SharePoint connector is a powerful feature that supports both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. It allows you to bypass firewall issues and keep your content fresh, publishing straight from your SharePoint Document Library. All published documents are protected by the DNN role-based security network.