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 […]
The problems of network shared drives
Even after years of migration to the cloud, the largest collection of unstructured content in the enterprise is the shared network drive. We know that it is insufficient for a wide variety of tasks and it is the single largest impediment to good Information Governance. Justifying its transformation requires some insight into what weaknesses it […]
Improve M365 governance AND reduce costs
The Covid-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the revenues of many companies, which has required them to reduce costs. It will require resources to establish M365 governance to improve how information in M365 is classified and protected, but the benefits may outweigh the costs. Many people look at information governance (IG) as a risk mitigation effort, […]
Teams Hub to automatically apply templates, naming, security, taxonomy, and compliance controls
Infotechtion Teams hub is an open-source product from Infotechtion built on Microsoft power platform to accelerate governance deployment and ongoing operational governance in Microsoft 365. This video explains it in more detail. Press here to learn more.
Building Your M365 Governance Strategy: What you can do with an E3 License
Webinar November 19th, 2020 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET The M365 E3 license includes features and opportunities to manage information across Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Exchange and Line of Business (LOB) systems. As an example, you can do document management for Teams, SharePoint, and LOB systems with the […]
Virtual work with M365 – how to protect your information?
Virtual work means that work happens anywhere, Corporate information is accessed from home offices, smartphones, and tablets. How do you protect this information? Encrypt sensitive information to protect it wherever it may go Stop staff and contractors from sharing, downloading, or printing sensitive information Stop staff from emailing sensitive information to internal or external parties […]
Time to cut costs: Consolidate content management and storage locations
Most enterprises have a myriad of content management/storage solutions like M365, SharePoint on-premise, network shared drives, FSS (e.g. Box, DropBox), and ECM systems (e.g. OpenText, Alfresco, Hyland). Infotechtion clients with up to 100k+ users operating in highly regulated industries have tested and concluded that M365 can replace most legacy content management/storage solutions. This significantly improves […]
