Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Building the Enterprise Around Compliance


Reducing the amount of I.T. budgets that are tied up in non-discretionary spending has become a barrier that must be overcome by companies looking to use I.T. for transformative growth and competitive differentiation -- not just to comply with the next round of regulatory onslaught.

In the early stages of enterprise applications, companies are often focused on the regulatory impact of financial and customer systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. While structured data in an organization such as finance, employee, and customer data are usually stored safely in a secure database, unstructured content of an organization is scattered across hundreds of e-mail and file servers -- on desktops and laptop computers.

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