With appropriate governance, Microsoft SharePoint can help organizations mitigate legal risk. SharePoint, however, has some records management shortcomings and lacks functionality for certain stages of the e-discovery process. Microsoft does not position itself as an end-to-end e-discovery provider. As organizations continue to expand already significant SharePoint investments, the importance of partner integrations will increase, especially for complementary records management functionality (e.g., physical records management), e-discovery capabilities (e.g., review), broader retention man-agement ability (e.g., across a wide array of content types and applications), and archiving (e.g.. more effective use of storage and infrastructure).