Small process tracking for in-house requirements investigations, which are shared across several departments.
Business Analyst, Global IT with 5,001-10,000 employees
Provides combined reports and data with timeline tracking. Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format.
Pros and Cons
- "Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
- "No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
- "Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
- Combined reports and data with timeline tracking.
- Better than looking into three systems to find the full picture.
What is most valuable?
- Metadata store
- Cascade dropdowns for selection of data sets.
What needs improvement?
- Links to Outlook and native storage of emails.
- Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format.
- No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository.
- The linkages to external record stores could be beefed up.
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