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Do top executives and board members understand the role of internal audit and the capabilities it offers?
This question was prompted by a post that a valued member of my network, Alfred Rodas, brought to my attention, "Internal Audit and it's enhanced role in the future "(sic).
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We all know that drawing conclusions from survey data can be misleading (after all, 90 or 95 percent of all statistics are made up on the fly), but the response to a recent question struck me as deserving further attention.
Doculabs recently partnered with EFM to develop a survey for
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Let’s start with a tired metaphor: "Storing crown jewels outside of castle walls."
So, if Information Security is like medieval Europe, then companies are the feudal lords who spend their money building really strong walls to keep enemies at bay.
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Security isn’t a standalone concept — it also involves mitigating risk at some cost. And in the absence of metrics, people tend to focus on familiar or recent risks. Which means we end up acting reactively rather than proactively.
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ECM solutions aren’t always used for the same purposes. And in its latest report, Forrester analyst Cheryl McKinnon makes the case for viewing business content management and transactional content management through different lenses.
In “The Forrester Wave™: ECM Business Content Services, Q3 2015 ” (fee) main author McKinnon noted
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Windows 10 may just seem like the next major release of an old-time standard desktop operating system, but there is a lot more at play.
Windows 10 is an entirely new version of Microsoft's standard desktop operating system. It’s also a bit of a microcosm of the greater Microsoft ecosystem.
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In the 40 years since I first started using search applications (initially on online remote access services such as Dialog, SDC and BRS) we have seen steady progress in search performance. But this progress is nowhere near the scale of development every other area of computer technology has witnessed.
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Everyone working in the tech industry eventually gets hit with a wave of frustration — it's inevitable. After a few years, every project starts to look the same. An industry colleague lamented the other day that he was tired of doing scanning project after scanning project and needed a change.
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Quick: What's the last search query submitted to your search platform?
If you manage a public-facing company website, I bet you can answer this question in seconds.
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Every client has cloud (and the related topic, Software as a Service) top of mind these days.
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Enterprise search interface functionality continues to increase in response to user demands for manageable search results and the need for exploratory search.
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Migration can be a bellwether measurement of interest in the SharePoint platform. While certain news and feature updates drive excitement around the platform, the flow of investment dollars to solutions and services more times than not follows the migration path.
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When I was in my 20s, technology was simple. All I had to do was make things work.
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For those worrying about the data security issues caused by enterprise file sharing or poorly constructed information management strategies, add a new item to your 'things to worry about' list — dark data.
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