Regulatory Standards News & Articles

Actiance has been busy regulating social conversations taking place across social media. From LinkedIn to Facebook, it  enables the automatic discovery of personal and corporate accounts all in an effort to monitor and archive content. This week, Actiance introduced Socialite Engage, a new platform designed to empower content sharing, customer engagement and impact analytics.

Sometimes combining social media and the enterprise mixes as well as oil and water. FaceTime's new product Socialite aims to offer guidelines, security controls and compliance to regulatory standards.

As more and more financial advisers wade into social media, the seas are still uncharted. There are still risks associated with combining the financial and social media industries.

Though many businesses are still resistant to engage via social media platforms, research has shown that if done correctly, the results can be beneficial.

Last week, we pondered the fate of acronyms -- namely GRC. Continuing the conversation, we sat down with CA’s (news, site) Marc Camm, senior vice president and general manager of GRC Products, and Peter Stapleton, senior principal product manager for CA GRC Manager, to discuss their thoughts about what Governance, Risk and Compliance will look like in 2010 and beyond.

Compliance, compliance, compliance. It's not that companies don't want to be compliant. They do. It's more that there are many things that complicate the process, like vendors with too much access to private information and virtual environments. Two recent surveys highlight these issues.

This week in Governance, Regulation and Compliance examines the current state of eDiscovery and issues within the oil, gas and energy sector.

In the Terminator series, the evil computer network Skynet leads the rise of machines in an effort to destroy humanity. Hopefully things won't go that far in a new report called The Rise of Information Governance, which tackles the often complex, confusing and confounding issues of information management and all that it encompasses.

The report, written by the 451 Group, attempts to define information governance, as well as examine the market dynamics and drivers, adoption trends and profiles of 15 vendors working towards information governance zen.

Many industries face management challenges when it comes to regulatory issues. From the financial sector to the pharmaceutical, figuring out how to best manage, store and archive content while meeting compliance mandates is often a complex process. Thanks to Virtify, a leader in enterprise content management solutions for life sciences companies, things are getting easier.

Today they've announced the release of an end-to-end web based solution aimed at managing content and compliance requirements for all facets of the life science industries. Biotechnology, medical device, animal health and food sciences industries alike, the Virtx software suite offers a collaborative online environment for managing regulated content throughout the entire life sciences product continuum.