For many companies, information governance is like herding cats when the herder doesnt know where the animals are located, cant tell cats from dogs, and isnt sure of the final destination.
Massive, disparate, and geographically distributed information stores, along with rapidly evolving regulations and years, if not decades, of neglect of IG best practices have put many organizations at risk of increasingly costly fines for compliance violations, huge e-discovery costs and penalties, and ever-increasing storage costs.
But if you think IG is tough at a typical enterprise, wait until you go through a corporate restructuring in todays environment, when the risks are magnified, the chall…
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