It’s one thing to simulate your disaster recovery and business continuity response; it’s quite another to have to stress test your plan for real and at scale. Recently we chatted with Norman Cave-Browne-Cave, IT & Facilities Manager at Lawton Communications Group, the guy in the hot seat when the lockdown came. The task fell to Norman to maintain business as usual for his team in the UK, US and Australia. Here, he reflects on his experiences.

Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe has effectively put a stop to the bulk of face-to-face interactions. With social distancing and shelter in place orders in effect, people are stuck at home and relying on the Internet as not only a tool for communication and entertainment but as their only way to earn money during this hectic and uncertain time.

In an earlier blog, Collaboration in the Modern Biotech Era, we explored the scope, dynamics, and complexity of collaboration in modern biotech and how “…these external partnerships have made the life sciences industry more distributed, networked, and collaborative than ever before.” But data security, integrity, structure, and storage present a number of concerns that need to be addressed to strengthen your GxP compliance envelope when working with external partners.

A single repository for all construction content changes the way people work, and it can make a big difference in project profitability. Increasingly, a CDE is an essential tool for conforming to Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices and meeting compliance requirements. It’s important to recognize that a CDE is not just for giant construction companies. It delivers the same benefits to smaller contractors and subcontractors who often operate on much thinner profit margins.

Companies around the globe scrambled to make work life productive for their employees once health and government mandates instructed offices to close. While the Internet became awash in work from home advice for employees, it was the IT admins who had to quickly enable their workforces to be productive, secure, and fully equipped to mimic the office environment at their kitchen table.

In our previous blog, we took a detailed look at how a Common Data Environment (CDE) can provide construction teams with operational advantages that enable them to work more efficiently, save time, and reduce errors. A CDE provides a central repository for all aspects of construction content management, including storing and accessing design files, bid documents, specifications, images, videos, change orders, and markups – everything that makes up the content that defines a construction project.

Are you finding it increasingly challenging to manage your organization’s regulatory submission process? The entire process of developing a drug from preclinical research to marketing takes approximately 12 to 18 years and can cost billions of dollars before a drug is even approved.

Like many businesses today, the construction industry is in a state of transition. In recent years, construction workflows have become information-driven, just as workflows have in other industries. Many industries have risen to the challenge and made full use of digital technologies to transform themselves. However, for reasons that have a lot to do with how construction operates, the digital transformation of construction has lagged.

Egnyte is committed to building an ecosystem of solutions that help organizations collaborate more effectively and securely. Our ongoing work with Microsoft Teams, which already includes Egnyte capabilities through Collaboration Tab and Messaging Extension, is an important part of this goal.

As businesses adjust to flexible working arrangements amidst stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, many are looking to technology to support the needs of remote workers. While many companies were already using software to support working outside of physical offices, tools that enable remote working have now become mission critical in many cases to avert disruption during the unprecedented time we find ourselves in.