According to Gartner, information contributes at least 20-25% of an average organization’s value today. Studies have uncovered countless ways to use data as an asset to help improve businesses by reducing costs, improving customer satisfaction, and managing risks. Along with the paradigm shift towards valuing information as an asset, companies also need to find opportunities to maximize its worth by focusing more upon data governance.

It’s no secret that winning organizations often find new and innovative ways to not only manage the information they’re creating on a daily basis, but to track it as well. This is true both in terms of the tools you’re using like Microsoft Teams or Outlook, and where that information is saved (like with SharePoint, Salesforce or even network folders). How can users take advantage of the communication and collaboration and still find Microsoft Teams information governance success?

To remain competitive as a professional services provider for rapidly growing and evolving companies, consultants have to deal with an ever-more-complex business environment. Very often, today’s projects have a broad and large scope, involving global locations, multiple stakeholders, and of course, high client expectations. These days, meeting those expectations often requires beating the odds.

So, it’s official. We are in a recession. But some experts say investment in digital transformation during a recession should remain steady. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared on June 8 that the recession began in February. It’s an unusual recession, by all standards — one not caused by macroeconomic financial mechanisms as in 2008 with the housing market collapse or in 1981 on the heels of tight monetary policy and an energy crisis.

When lockdown hit, it immobilized the entire industry; staff had to transition to working from home, tenants and clients could only be supported online or over the phone and all repairs and maintenance work was brought to a sharp halt. Fast forward to now, after months of moving operations online and trying to digitize processes, several industry challenges have been put under the magnifying glass.

M-Files bested all competitors in this year’s edition of the Nucleus Research Content Management (CM) Technology Value Matrix. Similar to the Gartner Magic Quadrant, the matrix places vendors in four regions — assessing them on two key factors: functionality and usability. M-Files earned the top spot for both criteria, placed in the Leader quadrant for the seventh consecutive year.