Microsoft Records Management Auto-Classification Options
Classification Options Many organizations try to rely on users to manually identify, capture, and classify records that should be retained, but this depends on users always doing the right thing to ensure compliance. A better approach is compliance-by-design. Records management happens automatically based on how users are storing or working with documents. Many large and […]
Planning M365 Information Governance
If you have lots of legacy systems, e.g. file servers / network shared drives, SharePoint on-premise, and Enterprise Content Management systems, then you need to establish your new governance structure for M365 before starting the migration from legacy systems to M365 since this will impact required metadata mapping, access controls, retention design, etc. You can […]
M365 for collaboration and records management for 37,000 users
Microsoft just published a case study about how the global energy company Equinor has standardized on Microsoft 365 (M365) for both collaboration and records management. Press link to access the case study, and it was an honor to work with them on this project. Some quotes from the case study: “Equinor tested many of the […]
The Dangers of M365 Add-On Solutions
There are a variety of IT solutions that improve how information is captured, processed, and managed in Microsoft 365 (M365), but some of them actually create a long-term problem for you. By buying these 3rd party solutions, you are then saying no to many Microsoft innovations and improvements. Many Microsoft partners that offer 3rd party […]
M365 architecture to improve access and control of information
If you have many M365 users and files, then you need to plan how to best connect people, information, and knowledge with required security and compliance. Your M365 architecture and setup – like in the picture below – should enable people to quickly go where they want to find what they need, but also ensure […]
M365 Information Governance: Automate metadata extraction to improve search and discovery
Metadata is key to discover, understand, and manage unstructured information like documents and records. Users benefit from this when trying to find relevant information, but most of them are not willing to add metadata manually when storing important documents and records. The key to success is therefore to automate how metadata is added to documents […]
The Business Case for Microsoft Information Governance
In the information age, information is an asset that can be used to add value, identify new opportunities, reduce costs, minimize risks. Knowledge workers are information workers that create, collaborate, analyze, and share information, and Information Governance ensures information availability, trustworthiness, and completeness while reducing operational risks and costs. It is a framework to connect […]
Finding and Protecting the Crown Jewels – A Compliance Framework
Information Governance seems to manifest itself in multiple separate projects managed under a single roof. It is better than silos, but still not completely integrated. M365 strategies, for example, may not touch paper file management, which may not touch GDPR, which may not touch long term archival information. I wanted to put together a high-level […]
Ensure GDPR compliance for Microsoft 365
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR’s primary aim is to give control to individuals over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation […]
Why should Organizations implement Information Governance now?
The explosion of information volume and variety threatens the ability of organizations to 1) empower individual knowledge workers, 2) allow them to work remotely, and 3) automate core back-end processes. At the same time, we are in the middle of a once-in-a-generation disruption in the way organizations manage information, driven by the cloud. Organizations face […]
