Enterprise Metadata Management

I will say right up front that I could never even attempt a manual approach to manipulate the number of false positives or negatives – not possible. Hopefully, you never have to attempt it.…

“An estimated 75 percent of today’s content management solutions were installed before the year 2010 – meaning that most organizations are now depending upon systems that at best are dated, and at worst dangerously close to end-of-life.” Source: Holly Group.…

Our guest blogger K. David Quackenbush, Chief Executive Officer of Gimmal has been kind enough to let us share with you his three articles on ‘Intelligent Records Management’. Gimmal, a Concept Searching partner, is recognized as a leader in the field of records management and content governance.…

We are lucky enough to be running a series of blogs written by K. David Quackenbush, Chief Executive Officer of Gimmal on ‘Intelligent Records Management’. Gimmal, a Concept Searching partner, is recognized as a leader in the field of records management and content governance.…

The Term Store has experienced a slow adoption rate. If you don’t invest in a tool to deal with content that is generated and ingested, the Term Store is the best thing available. To clarify, the Term Store is not a taxonomy and can’t be used in that way.…

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.…

I am not knocking those who have probably painstakingly built an organizational taxonomy in Excel. I highly respect them. They are also way ahead of the curve, as they understand what a taxonomy is supposed to do.…

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.…