Pingar's presentation at 2012 Australia SharePoint Conference, Melbourne, where Pingar was voted SharePoint Idol ! Learn how Pingar has solved the metadata problem to help SharePoint users gain more value and business intelligence from unstructured data.

1. We solved the metadata problem
for SharePoint users
Australian SharePoint Conference, 20-21 March 2012, Melbourne

2. Why people don’t like populating metadata?

3. Popular “strategies” that lead to poor metadata
Not ideal
1. Select metadata that matters only to you
2. Don’t read the entire document
3. Only fill in the required fields
4. Select the default values
5. Don’t do it at all
Severe problem

4. “Without high-quality metadata
SharePoint is just a file share”
“I want efficient search,
but I don’t want to waste time
dealing with metadata”
Consistent
Automated
Useful API-based metadata extraction

5. Consistent
helps find that document
1. Select metadata that matters only to you
Analyze
2. Don’t read the entire document
all
3. Only fill in the required fields
relevant
4. Select the default values
5. Don’t do it at all

6. Automated Extraction of metadata as you upload

7. Automated Metadata for multiple existing docs

8. Automated Metadata as you migrate
Added to SharePoint + populated metadata in 1 minute

9. Integration with Managed Metadata
Useful
for immediate filtering & etc

10. “Without high-quality metadata
Useful
SharePoint is just a file share”
Owen Allen
Bring SharePoint to Life
Today! 4.15, Office, BI, Stadbroke Room
“…A tour of the features in SharePoint that are used on
documents that are accompanied by metadata”

11. We solved the metadata problem
for SharePoint users
Consistent Automated Useful
Online demo: apidemo.pingar.com
Free Sandbox account: pingar.com/get-the-api
Cool live demos at Pingar’s booth