How to Target Security in Your ECM Role-Based Access Can Simplify and Strengthen ECM Security Congratulations—your organization has adopted a much-needed, corporate-wide mandate to implement an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. Your mission, which you are happy to undertake, is to deal with all the issues that you face everyday
Protecting Privacy: Easy as PII? Psssst! Can you keep a secret? This simple childhood whisper magnifies an importance in the growing awareness of how organizations maintain the confidentiality of information they receive from individuals. The electronic world overflows with countless bytes of personal information. Online, people input all types of
Metadata: Unleashing the Power of ECM Embracing new and innovative technology used to be a hallmark of leading-edge companies, but the practice has quickly becoming the norm among many organizations across all industry sectors. Today, most businesses recognize the need for enterprise content management (ECM) and information governance (IG), and
From Clutter to Classification Using IG to Gain Control of Your File Shares Rarely is chaos planned. Cleaning up that same chaotic mess is rarely a planned activity. The overgrowth of file shares is a story that is repeated at almost all organizations. Folders created with unclear names and documents
How Do You Eat the IG Elephant? One Bite at a Time! A Practical Approach to Information Governance Design A lot of people who need information governance put it off because the task seems so overwhelming. But achieving a well-designed and manageable information governance solution is not as daunting as
Turning IG into ROI Making Information Governance Analytics Pay Off It’s no secret that the divisions of a company that contribute to the corporate bottom line drive the company’s business decisions. Efforts to devise and enforce compliance to information governance (IG) may be seen as merely “gate-keeping,” but turning IG
What do CERCLA, ISO, and SOX mean to you and your business? With increased attention on good governance practices, oil and gas industry members are only an acronym away from experiencing a regulatory rain that rivals hell’s brimstone. Luckily, all the pain can be avoided with good records management and
Don’t Let ROT Takeover: Shrink the Shared Drive If you don’t work in information management, you probably define the word “rot” as a big mess. And really, when it comes to IM, ROT isn’t that much different. Think about the hard drive on your computer or laptop. How well are
What’s In & What’s Out: What Should Stay On Your Shared Drives It’s time. You’re finally migrating your files, maybe to a new SharePoint site or some other improved file repository. But it seems like you’re faced with an insurmountable task. Which files should you take with you to this
Tag, you’re it! Making the most of metadata Organization and classification has always stood at the forefront for business success. Information Governance requires commitment and a deep understanding of your businesses corporate culture, policies and procedures, and legacy data. Such knowledge only strengthens business structures increasing business performance. Metadata is
