Compliance News & Articles

This week in GRC focuses on the many challenges 2010 poses for companies, in regards to spending, compliance and risk management.

For as many eDiscovery vendors there are, there are as many eDiscovery prices. Two vendors, who have announced the availability of new pricing models, hope to revolutionize the industry.

DigiTech (news, site) and Fujitsu got together to bring, as they say, the simplest possible solution for those small to medium companies trying to wrangle paper documents.

In a world full of Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, RenewData (news, site) wants to be a Honda. That is, the eDiscovery provider would rather be regarded as automated, reliable and affordable than manual, over-priced and out of reach.

Wasn’t it just last week that we were pondering the sustainability of GRC as an acronym? Have no fear; the world of GRC still spins. This week: financial advisers tackle social media, how to comply with multiple regulations and security compliance predictions for 2010.

More releases from Autonomy (news, site)  this time an appliance that will facilitate eDiscovery with early case assessment and legal hold and a new solution specifically for the law profession that will automatically tell users when there is a conflict of interest in cases.

With the growing importance of compliance and eDiscovery issues for many companies, it might be time to consider deploying a records management system. Chances are that your company already uses some kind of document management system. The question is, will your document management system also support records management?

At the core of this question is what is the differences between document management and records management. Let's examine six differences.

Cloud computing has been the hot new thing on the market for a while now. It’s what has the enterprise buzzing and apprehensive. It’s what has those in charge of governance concerned. Overall, working in the cloud is the best and worst thing that ever happened to the enterprise.

How one uses the cloud is most dependent how compliant you intend to be. Once you understand the individual compliance regulations and specific requirements, it’s likely that you (and your data) can live comfortably on the cloud.

The problem of unstructured information floating around enterprises has reached such epidemic proportions that AIIM (news, site) has decided to take to the road at six locations over the coming months to persuade companies to develop a holistic information strategy.

The six seminars will take the guise of AIIM's “8 things about . . .” framework and will specifically look at eight factors to consider when creating an information strategy for enterprises.

For those in desperate need of definition when it comes to Records Management, we’ve got some advice from Jonathan Powers, a Tech Writer at Laserfiche (news, site). At this year’s Empower 2010, Powers took us back to the basics and promised martinis as a reward for lending him our ears.

Back in December we remarked about the trouble with generic acronyms and what they contribute (if anything) to web content management.

This year the same argument unfolds around another acronym, GRC. On the Gartner Blog Network, French Caldwell recently wrote about the war on governance, risk and compliance.

A new year for governance, risk management and compliance brings a little something for everyone. Healthcare industries get a new tool, acquisitions and collaboration bring continued success, and cloud computing impacts data storage in the UK.

Only just into the New Year and already the scramble for the biggest piece of the eDiscovery pie continues, this time with the opening of a European office by eDiscovery management specialists Planet Data.

January kicks off officially for EMC (news, site) with the acquisition of Archer Technologies, further demonstrating the enterprise content management vendors support for integrated governance, risk and compliance software.

Over the course of its release history document management software developer KnowledgeTree (news, site) has had a habit of mirroring upgrades in the on premise version of its products with corresponding upgrades to its SaaS version.

The SaaS version is  full versioned document management systems for users who want an alternative to on premise software, providing a secure service with hosting on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).