Mobile and cloud create new paradigms, data governance best practices

November 1, 2012 Off By David

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Ben Cole.

Cloud computing and mobile-device use are changing the way companies produce information — and in doing so, they’re creating new challenges for organizations looking to develop data governance best practices. But could this trend toward data governance actually help organizations struggling with information management?

Certainly, cloud and mobile are radically changing the way businesses think about data and access: Recent statistics released by Forrester Research Inc. show that by 2016, the number of smartphones in the U.S. alone is expected to grow to 257 million. Forrester also predicts that by 2016, iPads and other tablets will be users’ primary computing devices…

"Given this mobile adoption forecast, extending content capture and content access from the mobile world is something every organization has to consider today," said Pamela Doyle, director of the Imaging Products Group at Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. "This is further going to extend the benefits we have seen organizations achieve with distributed capture and with scan-to-process, if you are able to capture more critical content very early in the business process."…

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