Organisations increasingly recognise that demonstrating compliance is an important aspect of corporate governance. Businesses are increasingly agile - however agility without compliance significantly increases risk and with a host of legislative, organisational and audit based standards to meet this is a huge challenge, particularly in highly regulated industries.
SharePoint provides the capability to deliver agility to a business but in a controlled framework that provides governance and control.
Areas that Foundation IT advise on and incorporate into customer solutions include:
Strong security controls - to protect data and processes.
Comprehensive management of key elements- appropriate use of metadata to ensure compliance with organisational standards.
Full control over versions of information - not just documents but wiki pages, forum or blog posts and list items- creating a strong audit trail of activity.
Flexible reporting capabilities - for demonstrating compliance to the correct people at the correct time with little overhead to day to day functions.
Workflow controls - to enforce process consistency.
Intranet Information Management Policies - for adhering to compliance requirements, life cycle management issues, and legal holds.
Extranet security and authentication integration - for the management of internal access or partner access for multiple partners in a sensitive environment.