The Content Group secures Northern Europe partnership with RSD
Great Britain, February 22, 2011. Independent ECM technology and consultancy provider, The Content Group (TCG), has signed a strategic partnership with Geneva-based RSD, to resell RSD GLASS™ – RSD’s comprehensive information governance platform which helps organisations manage corporate risk and improve operational efficiency through compliance with regulations and laws governing enterprise information and records management.
This strategic partnership will allow TCG to offer and promote the entire RSD portfolio of business information & delivery, document & content management and information governance software solutions throughout Northern Europe - the UK, Germany, Scandinavia and Benelux.
Information governance enforces desirable behaviour in the creation, use, archiving, and deletion of corporate information. The information governance challenge has created urgency at the executive level to respond to explosive growth in content creation and rapid expansion in laws and regulations governing that content. Unlike current enterprise information management and "bolted-on" records management solutions, RSD GLASS enables central management of retention policy and metadata, while supporting enforcement of information governance policy across business functions, locations, and information silos.
Ben Richmond, Founder and CEO of The Content Group, comments, “RSD GLASS is a unique information governance platform that addresses all phases of the enterprise information lifecycle and supports the enforcement of information governance policy across organizational, geographic, and repository boundaries.”
Richmond continues, “This partnership with RSD will enable us to extend our reach both on an international basis and through access to what we believe are some of the most comprehensive information governance products available in the market. Having the ability to consult around and implement such a platform will enable TCG to meet the ever growing needs of organisations seeking to bring true enterprise governance to their information.
Note to readers: An information governance program includes the business processes and information lifecycle practices which entail more than just retention or disposal. It incorporates data privacy attributes, eDiscovery requirements, storage optimisation and metadata management.
The Content Group is an independent ECM technology and consultancy provider whose ‘Content Expert’ best practice methodology ensures successful content initiatives for its clients across the globe. The expertise and best practice methodology of The Content Group ensures its clients receive unbiased advice combined with technology recommendations that deliver results.
Pierre Van Beneden, RSD CEO, comments, “Partnering with an organisation such as The Content Group is strengthening our presence and activities in the UK and Northern Europe. RSD has created the first truly comprehensive information governance platform with RSD GLASS – which will provide a sure foundation for The Content Group’s ever increasing capabilities in this area. RSD GLASS includes breakthrough, and patent-pending innovations – upon which The Content Group’s wide range of personnel, many of whom are domain experts in their respective fields can consult effectively and implement our products reliably.”
Richmond continues, “RSD and RSD GLASS’s holistic approach to information governance answers many of the concerns and demands throughout enterprise-scale organisations. CIOs are faced with a daily challenge of providing consistent ready access to hundreds of terabytes of data, often stored across multiple servers perhaps even in multiple countries. Meanwhile, legal departments and record managers are desperate to ensure that pertinent laws and regulations pertaining to their business and the information they hold are not only understood but are also acted upon, removing the risk of inadvertent non-compliance and potentially crippling litigation.”
For more information about this release, please contact:
Amy Hopkins
itpr
Tel. +44 (0)1932 578800
amyh@itpr.co.uk
www.itpr.co.uk
Ben Richmond – Chief Executive
The Content Group
Tel. +44 (0)1483 523890
B.Richmond@thecontentgroup.co.uk
www.thecontentgroup.co.uk
Tamir Sigal
RSD
Director of Marketing
Tel. +1 201.996.1000
t.sigal@rsd.com
www.rsd.com
About The Content Group
The Content Group is an independent Enterprise Content Management ECM technology and consultancy provider whose proven ECM Expert best practice methodology ensures successful ECM projects for its clients across the globe.
Recognised as a leading expert in the field, The Content Group works with its clients in the education of ECM, development of ECM strategies, implementation of ECM strategies and the design of ECM maturity blueprint’s for ongoing measurement of organisational ECM effectiveness.
Drawing on its best practice methodology, The Content Group is leading the development of the first ever Publicly Available Specification for ECM with BSI British Standards.
The expertise and best practice methodology of The Content Group’s ECM Expert ensures its clients receive unbiased advice combined with “Best by Design” technology recommendations resulting in unparalleled ECM project success.
The Content Group works with clients from the SME and Enterprise sector. This work covers new ECM initiatives and also existing ECM implementations where organisations are looking to leverage the true value of their ECM investment.
About RSD
Founded in 1973 in Geneva, with affiliates in New York, London and Madrid, RSD helps companies meet the growing challenge of information governance by providing market-leading products for business information delivery, content and records management, and document archiving and retrieval.
RSD solutions are used in more than 1,200 installations worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 500. Today RSD supports over 2 million users, and offers its innovative products and services in more than 26 countries around the globe – both directly and through strategic business partners.
