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Information governance best practices

• Information governance strategy isn't a project -- it's a culture

  Companies are often daunted by the prospect of developing an information governance strategy. But start small, and recognize that it's about changing company culture.  Continue Reading

• Seven signs you need to upgrade your legacy systems

  Legacy systems can last well beyond their expiration date. So how do you know when it's time to upgrade them?  Continue Reading

• Seven tips in building an information governance strategy

  Your information governance strategy is like running a long-distance race, not a sprint, so plan for endurance, fortitude and various steps along the way.  Continue Reading

• Ten tips to expose and expunge shadow IT at your company

  Bringing shadow IT projects into the sunlight requires change management and getting employees to embrace IT-sanctioned technologies.  Continue Reading

• Cloud file sharing pushes ECM content for mobile apps

  Cloud file sharing has been a boon for remote collaboration. Now file-sharing apps are poised to help users manage content for mobile experiences.  Continue Reading

• Merging your view of structured and unstructured data in SharePoint

  Companies are seeing the merits of merging structured and unstructured data in SharePoint. But gaining the resulting business insight will take work.  Continue Reading

• Content asset protection: How to combat the ‘inside job’

  The Target and Home Depot data breaches highlight the need content asset protection from external threats. But what about threats from an 'inside job'?  Continue Reading

• The Clinton email brouhaha and information governance

  Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email account raises information governance issues that need to be addressed.  Continue Reading

• The five commandments of content governance policies

  Getting your content governance house in order starts with treating your information as an asset -- just as you would your revenue-generating resources.  Continue Reading

• How analytics engines could -- finally -- relieve enterprise search pain

  Analytics engines could take what was once the province of e-discovery and make effective enterprise search a reality across all company information.  Continue Reading

• Search-based applications need the engine of taxonomy

  Designing functional taxonomies is one of the first steps in making search-based applications more effective. How can organizations map out classification schemes that will help return the most relevant search results?  Continue Reading

• Building more powerful search atop an ECM system

  ECM often fails to deliver on its promised search capabilities. But start with the right building blocks and an ECM system can become a more powerful search tool.  Continue Reading

• How to use SharePoint eDiscovery Center across SharePoint and Exchange

  When using SharePoint eDiscovery Center to perform e-discovery across SharePoint, Exchange and Lync data, keep a few considerations in mind to boost efficiency, improve search and reduce risks.  Continue Reading

• The perils of deleting data from the Web

  The 'right to be forgotten' regulation, which allows European citizens to request that data be deleted from search engines, has serious consequences.  Continue Reading

• Social media publishing for viral promotion of company content

  Regular people like self-published author John Locke have used social media publishing to promote their content virally. Enterprises can do the same.  Continue Reading