The sheer number of parties involved in a clinical trial results in increased complexity. The ability to tame this complexity is what separates high-growth biotechs from the rest. In order to keep up with the pace of innovation organizations must improve efficiencies while adhering to regulatory requirements, all in a drive to maintain consistent data quality.

If you’re like most companies, your teams rely on a variety of cloud apps and storage solutions to get work done and collaborate with internal and external teams. While this flexibility is great for end users, it creates enormous complexity when it comes to data security and governance. IT teams must juggle multiple administrative dashboards, permissions configurations and access control policies across apps.

With today’s distributed workforce, it’s essential to have the right tools to collaborate with co-workers. Now with the Egnyte Microsoft Office integration, users can co-edit on Microsoft documents in real-time from the Office Desktop apps. Users now have a choice to use their preferred device.

In our recent infographic we reported that almost 1 in 6 construction companies reported a ransomware attack in the past year so, yes, ransomware is a serious problem for construction companies. The question then becomes: why are construction and engineering companies being targeted with such frequency? For two reasons; first is a distributed workforce.

For a managed service provider (MSP), answering questions about data governance—specifically data security and privacy—is a vital part of the job. Understanding the complexities of content management systems, automation, and more ensures you are at the top of the data security field. Maintaining file and data security is a fact of life—usually by force of law. However, it’s a subject not many of your clients will ever fully understand.

The COVID-19 pandemic increased the need for cross-company collaboration. Yet, working with external partners shouldn’t mean giving away company secrets. Now, information security is more vital than ever. Proper data management and governance are good ways to control access to your files, protect secure information, and maintain compliance with all industry laws and regulations.

Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses that were already beginning their digital transformation have sped up their efforts even more. Companies have been forced to increase spending on digital transformation in order to cope with a myriad of pandemic-related challenges.

Today, having a strong data governance program is critical for many reasons: understanding and minimizing risk to sensitive data, maintaining security and trust, avoiding compliance fines, and empowering knowledge workers to be more effective at their jobs. The trouble is, if you don’t manage scope properly, and instead try to eat the proverbial data governance elephant all in one bite, you are setting yourself up for trouble.