I was rereading some of the commentaries from the last Microsoft Ignite conference, and happened upon one about metadata that I had forgotten about. The author was touting the addition of a prompt for end users to add metadata.…
Enterprises commonly set boundaries and processes to control the flow of information, to ensure best practice in activities such as records management, data protection, and compliance. This approach of controlling the information flow is often cumbersome and impacts the ability to manage content throughout the information lifecycle, including capture, storage, retrieval, archival, and disposal.…
Only 918 reported data breaches led to a whopping 1.9 billion records being exposed, as of September 2017. I would expect the number to rise, although not dramatically, I hope. Compared with the last six months of 2016, the number of lost, stolen, or compromised records increased by 164 percent.…
Statistics show that over 90 percent of organizations rely on end user tagging, sustaining the use of inaccurate and erroneous metadata applied to unstructured and semi-structured content.…
One of my favorite subjects – metadata tagging. For years, metadata would make business professionals stare glassily into space when explained to them. No more, I hope. Metadata is now information currency and if it isn’t woven into technology frameworks as the critical component in achieving organizational business objectives, then enterprises suffer from content paralysis.…
It is predicted that SharePoint Online and Office 365 will give enterprise content management (ECM) vendors a run for their money, in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management.…
Ok, I bet most of you who are involved in migration don’t do an inventory when you are figuring out the time and budget for the project. You should do. It will save you a lot of headaches down the road.…
