Allowing for free-flowing information while managing compliance / eDiscovery
I’m sitting in a Microsoft Exchange seminar as I type, watching all of the things that information workers can do in their Outlook clients with Exchange 2007. It’s fascinating to see what is possible in terms of collaboration through presence awareness, unified communications, and VOIP. What strikes me most is the notion of complete freedom of information sharing. With that freedom, we can increase the velocity at which information travels between the people that need to utilize it. While this is clearly a step forward, someone needs to raise the caution flag, and I guess I’m just the person to do it. Now, I’m not saying that utilizing these technologies is wrong; on the contrary, I believe that rolling these out to information-intensive workers is critical. But, let’s learn from the past and make sure we have systems in place to manage that information (in a way that continues to let it flow freely).
Microsoft partners like Mimosa have built solutions specifically to do just that - allow organizations to best use Microsoft’s information worker solutions, but do so in a way that also manages for compliance, eDiscovery readiness, and leaves as little footprint on your Microsoft systems as possible. One of the hotly debated topics is how much of this advanced Microsoft technology, e.g. Unified Communications, is currently being used. I’d love to hear from you - what do you think? Is UCC a concern for now, or for a year or two down the road? How are you approaching managing the user-generated content in your organization for compliance and eDiscovery?
Hit me up at bmurphy@mimosasystems.com
