Sunday, February 10, 2008

Compliance Drives Automation

By Mark Brousseau

Many document automation vendors will tell you that compliance and audit issues are a major part of the business case for unstructured documents solutions, and the results of a recent Question of the Week on the TAWPI Web site confirm it.

Forty-nine percent of respondents to the online survey said that compliance and audit issues are playing a “very big” role in their need for unstructured documents solutions, while another 29 percent of respondents said compliance and audit issues were a “somewhat big” component. This means that compliance and audit issues were a significant factor in the need for unstructured documents solutions at 78 percent of the organizations that responded.

Just 18 percent of respondents said compliance and audit issues were a “somewhat small” issue in their need for unstructured documents solutions, while only 4 percent said they were a “very small” factor.

What is the story at your organization? E-mail me at m_brousseau@msn.com.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting data. I am a bit surprised that the percentage of respondents that replied "very big" wasn't higher. I would be curious to know the organization size for most of the respondents.

At my company we interact daily with CISO's and Information Security professionals from F1000 companies. Most are in highly regulated industries so they definitely need the ability to centralize their data/documents and ensure compliance with their policies and controls.

Thanks for the information!