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Articles by Pierre Van Beneden

The Impact of Social/Mobile/Cloud on Information Governance

Organizations need a platform to manage all of their information, wherever it resides and whatever the format, in compliance with growing regulations, often in multiple jurisdictions and demanding business requirements. In recent years, information governance has gained significant attention as the way to manage these multiple requirements. However, new trends constantly emerge, requiring companies to update how an information governance program is deployed—from managing policies to enforcing those policies across the complex corporate infrastructure. . . .

Information Governance for Cloud Storage Systems and Platforms

The adoption of cloud technology has rapidly increased throughout the enterprise in the last two years. Forrester predicts that the market for cloud computing will grow from $41 billion to $241 billion by 2020. The range of benefits offered by using cloud services and the maturity of cloud vendors is driving adoption at the global level. More and more companies are using cloud technologies and managed services to accelerate business initiatives. . . . .

What Does Information Governance Really Mean for SharePoint?

Collaboration is essential to modern day businesses. Collaboration tools like SharePoint have been proven to improve efficiency among individuals and teams, accelerating business processes and decision-making across the enterprise. SharePoint has been widely adopted. It is considered one of the most rapidly growing enterprise technologies today by allowing companies to create sites to share information, manage documents and publish reports. A critical side-effect, however, is the generation of vast quantities of content, records and information. . . .

Information Governance as a Service

Software as a service (SaaS), sometimes referred to as "on-demand software" supplied by independent software providers or application service providers (ASPs), is a software delivery model in which software is hosted in the cloud. SaaS is typically accessed by authorized users using a Web browser and generally priced using a subscription fee, most commonly a monthly or an annual fee.

The adoption of cloud technology has rapidly increased throughout the enterprise in the last two years. Forrester predicts that the market for cloud computing will grow from $41 billion to $241 billion by 2020. . . .

Information Governance: Driving Value and Profits

"Information governance: Two words regularly used by top executives to describe new programs for complying with the plethora of government mandates, the proliferation of content and the increasing legal and operational costs associated with corporate information. Information governance programs are also being developed to address new trends such as cloud computing, social media platforms, management of big data and "bring your own device" (BYOD) initiatives. For many organizations. . . . "

Closing the Records Management Loop

Microsoft SharePoint is considered one of the fastest growing enterprise applications in the market. Many organizations view SharePoint 2010 as a platform for enterprise content management and collaboration since it makes it easier. . . .

Information Governance: Records Management (Finally) Grows Up

In today's business environment, corporate malfeasance in the management of business-related information can cost a company millions in penalties and even more in damage to brand image. Information governance (IG) is the most recent winner of buzzword bingo in this area. IG promises to mitigate risks, reduce costs and ensure that information assets are systematically "looked after" in a compliant, sustainable and economical manner. . . .