| #10 TOP READ — Hello vendor, my name is Bud, and I work at the company you just gave a demo to. Can we take a minute to review your first (and probably last) demo/presentation to my group? First,... View More
OK, so you’ve gotta do a request for proposal (RFP). Here’s how to reduce the pain and increase the value of the information you gain from the RFP process. Two years ago, I wrote a post for... View More
If left unmanaged, your data can become overwhelming, making it difficult to procure information you need when you need it. While software is designed to address archiving, e-discovery, compliance, etc.,... View More
Collaboration happens between people. People collaborate around content that is created and/or shared during collaborative interactions. It is a continuum that includes multiple technologies and modalities... View More
I keep being asked to go to all sorts of companies in order to lift my wand and say a couple of magic words, and at this moment, everything should change in the company: People would have instant access... View More
It is no secret that today’s workforce is more mobile than ever before. Workers expect that their personal experiences and expectations for mobility should travel into their work environments. This... View More
Protiviti partnered with North Carolina State University’s Enterprise Risk Management Initiative to conduct our third annual "Executive Perspectives on Top Risks" survey and obtained the views of... View More
Paper is still a dominant part of many organizations, clogging and slowing processes. There are many reasons for it being present, including human reluctance to eliminate it. This is intriguing since many... View More
Cybercrime targeting of commercial enterprises and organizations is rampant. Increasingly sophisticated, organized crime groups are gaining improper access to point-of-sale systems and corporate networks... View More
Do you remember when the first iPad became available? Do you remember the conversations you had with your colleagues about it? I do. I recall the buzz around the office: There was a lot of excitement;... View More
I have been working in this industry for 20 years. When I crossed that threshold last year, I had a small cry. Okay, maybe not a cry, but I was upset. Here we are in 2015, and we are still trying to get... View More
| #3 TOP READ — We know that information is outstripping our ability to consume it—a problem that costs the world nearly one trillion dollars a year. In this new world of work, information... View More
As we welcome a new year, you may be thinking about new funding and new projects. It may be time to tackle that growing storeroom of paper files or that growing debate about getting rid of the shared drive,... View More
What do JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot, Target, Adobe, TJX and Sony all have in common? They have all been hacked and have given up tens of thousands or millions of records containing credit/debit cards, email... View More
Welcome to 2015! Growing demand for simple, flexible interfaces by the user community dictates that businesses of all types assess user needs and select tools that align with organizational requirements... View More
Enterprise content management (ECM) is broad enough technology to touch multiple areas within your enterprise. Here are the most common business reasons to apply ECM technology:To bring order to the ever-increasing... View More
We love folders. They are our digital comfort food. We can create them with ease; we can add to them; we can nest them. In our organizations, however, they become cumbersome to manage, make it difficult... View More
If data isn’t the lifeblood of an organization, it is, without question, a critical component in its success. Analogous to the role of water in a hydroelectric plant, data powers an organization,... View More
As we begin to close the year out and assess what happened in the enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) world, let’s look at a little history to gain some perspective and possible future directions.... View More
December is the month where the law decrees that analysts and pundits have to make predictions for the coming year, everyone clamoring for column inches. Each hoping that it’ll be their wild speculation... View More
