Yet Another Digital Divide

September 8, 2017

Recommind sums up what happened at a recent technology convention in the article, “Why Discovery & ECM Haven’t, Must Come Together (CIGO Summit 2017 Recap).” Author Hal Marcus first discusses that he was a staunch challenge to anyone who said they could provide a complete information governance solution. He recently spoke at CIGO Summit 2017 about how to make information governance a feasible goal for organizations.

The problem with information governance is that there is no one simple solution and projects tend to be self-contained with only one goal: data collection, data reduction, etc. When he spoke he explained that there are five main reasons for there is not one comprehensive solution. They are that it takes a while to complete the project to define its parameters, data can come from multiple streams, mass-scale indexing is challenging, analytics will only help if there are humans to interpret the data, risk, and cost all put a damper on projects.

Yet we are closer to a solution:

Corporations seem to be dedicating more resources for data reduction and remediation projects, triggered largely by high profile data security breaches.

Multinationals are increasingly scrutinizing their data sharing and retention practices, spurred by the impending May 2018 GDPR deadline.

ECA for data culling is becoming more flexible and mature, supported by the growing availability and scalability of computing resources.

Discovery analytics are being offered at lower, all-you-can-eat rates, facilitating a range of corporate use cases like investigations, due diligence, and contract analysis

Tighter, more seamless and secure integration of ECM and discovery technology is advancing and seeing adoption in corporations, to great effect.

And it always seems farther away.

Whitney Grace, September 8, 2017

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