<p>It seems that many senior executives today are stuck between a rock and a hard place: How can they encourage collaboration and participation amongst their employees in order to continue increasing business productivity, properly manage the explosion of big data and unstructured content and ensure that they are meeting their specific compliance and regulatory obligations?</p><p>Especially with the rampant popularity of enterprise content management systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, the amount of content available and accessible on internet, extranet, and internet sites has exponentially increased. While employees are able to improve collaboration, interact on demand, and integrate "social" into their work environments to more quickly respond to customer needs, there is an explosion of new content.</p><p>Now that essentially every employee is a "content contributor", how do you address the inherent new risks associated with meeting regulatory, statutory and organisational compliance mandates? According to a recent study conducted by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics as well as the Health Care Compliance Association, fears of an accidental breach far outweighs the fears of an intentional one - 61 percent of those surveyed believed an accidental breach by employees was "somewhat or very likely".</p><p>The fear is great, but it seems that for SharePoint deployments, many organisations are turning a blind eye to incorporating the platform into overall compliance strategies. According to a report from AIIM, while 53 percent of those surveyed consider SharePoint their primary ECM system, more than 60 percent of organisations have yet to incorporate their SharePoint deployments with existing compliance policies. In summary: SharePoint is a treasure trove of sensitive, unprotected information within many enterprises.</p><p><a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/management-briefing/2012/10/stale-mate/index.htm">Keep reading...</a></p>