The Future of Information Governance

Information is the life blood of any modern-day business. Companies succeed or falter based on the reliability, availability, and security of their information. But are most companies properly governing how their information is used, shared, and analyzed? The Economist Intelligence Unit recently conducted a survey of senior executives around the world on the benefits, challenges, …

SmartDigitalVault: Intelligence from Corporate Records

Strategic Legal Systems and Portford Solutions have combined IT and legal expertise to create the SmartDigitalVault (http://www.strategiclegalsystems.com/portford) for extracting critical business information from legal records and systematically organize it based on best practices for each business domain. The “smart,” secure repository finds the needed record and generates business reports from the extracted data. As the …

eDiscovery and Information Management

eDiscovery is the process of collecting, culling/tagging and exporting electronic content that answers specific questions or requests resulting from an audit, law suit, or due diligence. This is obviously not a new concept as organizations have been trawling through paperwork looking for the right information for years, but what we are talking about here is …