What is Microsoft Project Nucleus?

Microsoft CVP Jeff Teper introduced the latest innovation on Microsoft SharePoint online platform called Project Nucleus. Read more about it in this blogpost by my colleague and friend Per Sivertsen – Project Nucleus is alive! Project Nucleus will bring the boost of performance and reliability of web applications to SharePoint online. The new technology will […]
Microsoft Teams and Site templates to automate M365 Information Governance

Perhaps, the most important part of information governance is the use site / Teams’ templates. These templates define the structure of your site or team. Consider it is as a sketch of the site / team that tells you what components will be included when the template is deployed. For SharePoint site it means that […]
M365 architecture to improve access and control of information

If you have many M365 users and files, then you need to plan how to best connect people, information, and knowledge with required security and compliance. Your M365 architecture and setup – like in the picture below – should enable people to quickly go where they want to find what they need, but also ensure […]
M365 Information Governance: Automate metadata extraction to improve search and discovery

Metadata is key to discover, understand, and manage unstructured information like documents and records. Users benefit from this when trying to find relevant information, but most of them are not willing to add metadata manually when storing important documents and records. The key to success is therefore to automate how metadata is added to documents […]
The Business Case for Microsoft Information Governance

In the information age, information is an asset that can be used to add value, identify new opportunities, reduce costs, minimize risks. Knowledge workers are information workers that create, collaborate, analyze, and share information, and Information Governance ensures information availability, trustworthiness, and completeness while reducing operational risks and costs. It is a framework to connect […]
Finding and Protecting the Crown Jewels – A Compliance Framework

Information Governance seems to manifest itself in multiple separate projects managed under a single roof. It is better than silos, but still not completely integrated. M365 strategies, for example, may not touch paper file management, which may not touch GDPR, which may not touch long term archival information. I wanted to put together a high-level […]
Ensure GDPR compliance for Microsoft 365

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR’s primary aim is to give control to individuals over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation […]
Why Manage Microsoft Teams Chats?

Emails have been a primary medium of communication/correspondence for a long time. Many organizations are working towards developing the policies or capabilities to manage governance in emails to meet their compliance and records management commitments. We are subject to 10 times more emails per day compared to 5 years ago. Whatever the number is, it’s […]
Why should Organizations implement Information Governance now?

The explosion of information volume and variety threatens the ability of organizations to 1) empower individual knowledge workers, 2) allow them to work remotely, and 3) automate core back-end processes. At the same time, we are in the middle of a once-in-a-generation disruption in the way organizations manage information, driven by the cloud. Organizations face […]
The problems of network shared drives

Even after years of migration to the cloud, the largest collection of unstructured content in the enterprise is the shared network drive. We know that it is insufficient for a wide variety of tasks and it is the single largest impediment to good Information Governance. Justifying its transformation requires some insight into what weaknesses it […]