http://blog.oyster-ims.com Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:23:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Alex Thompson With the increasing popularity of information loss there has been a few notable news stories in the last fortnight: • It appears that some faith in PA Consulting remains (see here) – albeit for a project that has already suffered the loss of compact discs containing information on 25 million ... http://blog.oyster-ims.com/2008/09/information-rights-management-signed-sealed-delivered/ By Alex Thompson Short of introducing airport style security at the office door, how do businesses tackle the problem of the memory stick? Threat of prosecution after information loss is one thing (see here) but surely the trick is to catch the problem at source? But having just “rules” in place ... http://blog.oyster-ims.com/2008/09/managing-information-loss-is-that-a-memory-stick-in-your-pocket/ By Patrick Thatcher Imagine you meet the Prime Minister in a lift and during idle conversation you are asked what you do for a living. You realise you only have about 10 seconds to explain as you exit the lift on the 15th floor... With this scenario created I would like to ... http://blog.oyster-ims.com/2008/08/definition-of-enterprise-content-management-ecm/ By Patrick Thatcher There is a widely accepted concept within information management; that being the main division for data is between structured and unstructured. Structured data being rows and columns of data within a database and unstructured being “the rest” of an organisation’s data. “The rest” being all documents including Office ... http://blog.oyster-ims.com/2008/08/information-management-structure-the-unstructured/ By Patrick Thatcher Social networking on-line has without doubt changed the way individuals, socialise, share information and even meet new people. Whilst all users have been merrily using this medium there has been a brewing undercurrent relating to who is responsible ocean of data. Who is ultimately responsible for the content ... http://blog.oyster-ims.com/2008/08/problems-of-social-networking-online-existence/ By Josef Elliott There is a school of thought that all new “stuff” is invented in California and slowly migrates eastwards stopping only briefly on our shores on the way to mainland Europe, Asia and The Orient.  Let us for a moment consider the progress of e-Discovery and accept the fact ... http://blog.oyster-ims.com/2008/08/e-discovery-litigation-preperation/ By Josef Elliott So the acquisition news today is that Interwoven have become the latest ECM vendor to snap up an e-Discovery player in the US with yesterday’s announcement that they intend to acquire Discovery Mining, Inc.  This follows Automony’s purchase of Zantaz, Seagate’s purchase of MetalLINCS, Iron Mountain’s purchase of ... http://blog.oyster-ims.com/2008/07/whats-with-e-discovery/