Collaborate with Peers to Develop a Reference Architecture for Managing Unstructured Data
The Wikibon Project invites you to participate in an initiative focused on the challenges enterprises face in managing unstructured data.
The overwhelming growth of electronic data, specifically classified as unstructured content, has become an increasingly critical issue for enterprises struggling to control Archiving, Compliance, eDiscovery and overall Records Management costs. Specifically:
- Storage consumption is increasing by 50-120% per year to accommodate data growth and retention.
- 90% of businesses lack a process for determining data ownership.
- As much as 50% of unstructured data is stored longer than needed.
- Duplication rates for unstructured data run as high as 20:1.
- eDiscovery processing and review costs continue to rise at unsustainable rates.
(Sources for statistics above include Banking Systems News, IBM, FSTC and The Wikibon Project)
As a result, organizations are spending millions each year on technology, operations, legal, and third-party services to manage this growing problem. Costs and risks are projected to steadily increase and productivity decrease if firms stay on their current path.
As a practitioner in this field, you will work with peers, vendors and industry experts to develop practical guidelines and an open architecture for managing electronic documents, mail and messages. The knowledge and deliverables from this project will enable you to:
- Understand and communicate the problem.
- Identify the technologies that can be practically applied.
- Develop a usable reference architecture for your organization.
- Quantify the business capability and ROI.
You will contribute business, system functionality, policy, data, and infrastructure requirements while vendor and service providers will provide technical thought leadership and expertise through facilitated workshops, surveys, peer-to-peer discussions, and other collaborative activities. Project outcomes will be organized by Wikibon's project management office (PMO) into actionable material as a basis for the development of cross-industry standards, best practices and a reference architecture for managing unstructured data.
Wikibon end-user members qualify for this program at no additional charge
If interested, please answer the quick survey below. Qualified candidates will be able to review Wikibon's project plan and detailed prospectus.
Please register for Wikibon to be eligible for this collaboration
Managing Unstructured Data Survey
Thanks for taking the survey and thank you for being a Wikibon member.
Sincerely,
The Wikibon Team