New Gilbane Study Indicates Growing Demand For Enterprise Rights Management
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gilbane Group, Inc., the analyst and consulting firm focused on content technologies and their application to high-value business solutions, today released the industry's first reliable picture of ERM adoption in its new study, Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness. The growth in the number of companies adopting or planning to adopt means that for the first time, enough data exists to produce a study that is meaningful for users and vendors alike. As a result, Gilbane Group's new report presents the most comprehensive publicly available research on the ERM market ever undertaken.
ERM: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness is backed by qualitative and quantitative research on general awareness of ERM, the current state of ERM deployments or plans to deploy (or decisions to avoid the technology), and target applications. According to study data:
- Protecting confidential information from leaking outside the organization is the primary motivation driving ERM adoption.
- ERM is becoming important for supporting information usage regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.
- Client/customer communications and financial processes are other types of business processes involving confidential information that are the most prevalent for ERM implementations.
- 55% of ERM implementations are integrated with content management solutions (including knowledge management and groupware/collaboration).
Study methodology included a survey of over 200 senior IT, security, and content management professionals across a range of vertical industries. The research also draws on case studies on ERM deployments at six multinational companies; the case studies are included in the report.
Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness is available as a free download from the Gilbane website at http://gilbane.com/Research-Reports.html#ermreport. It is also available from study sponsors EMC, Fasoo.com, GigaTrust, and Microsoft.
About Gilbane Group
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of content and information technologies since 1987. Clients include organizations from a variety of industries and governments. Gilbane works with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. The firm has organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Its widely read reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs are available at http://gilbane.com.
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