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Ensure Compliant Enterprise Social Computing and Collaboration

Collaboration may well be the business buzzword of the century. Companies are increasingly adopting enterprise social computing platforms to support collaboration, communication and employee knowledge. Content management systems like Microsoft SharePoint® have made it easy to implement social computing sites including discussion forums, blogs, wikis and instant messaging.

However, on-going dialogue, the cornerstone of social computing, often leaves the IT department, risk managers and compliance managers asking themselves a number of questions: Is our sensitive and regulated content secure? Are we complying with our governance policy? Are we exposing ourselves to potential financial risk?
Enterprise social computing can be a risky business for these reasons, but it doesn’t have to be. With the right technologies in place, companies can collaborate safely and within regulatory guidelines, including SEC rules, and personal and healthcare information acts, as well as internal human resources (HR) and company policies. If monitored properly the social computing infrastructure can absolutely take that risk away so the benefits can be gained.

The SharePoint Advantage for Social Computing

Most companies are implementing SharePoint because of lower cost of IT infrastructure, such as the savings from replacing a wide range of tools, ECMs, Document Management Systems, discussion platforms etc. With SharePoint social computing, there is the added advantage of increased productivity and knowledge throughout business.

Solutions like NewsGator Social Sites further enhance SharePoint’s native social capabilities to deliver additional value to users while fully leveraging SharePoint. It helps to increase adoption among stakeholders, streamline communication, improve employee recruiting and retention, and boost overall organizational productivity.

Social Content Monitoring Made Easy

While SharePoint and NewsGator are improving internal communication, the explosion of user-generated, unstructured content has also introduced new business challenges for many organizations. Policing social portals for compliance with paper-based corporate communication policies, privacy guidelines and other industry-specific compliance regulations is no simple task. Manual processes for enforcing these policies are no longer enough.

HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff helps manage social computing compliance challenges reliably, consistently and automatically. Compliance Sheriff works in tandem with NewsGator Social Sites to effectively manage social content and ensure inappropriate or sensitive company material stays out of the public domain, where it can damage your company’s reputation and in some cases your bottom-line.

HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff® NewsGator Connector

The Compliance Sheriff NewsGator Connector integration allows NewsGator Social Sites users to collaborate with confidence. The Compliance Sheriff SP2010 suite paired with the NewsGator Connector can automatically monitor, flag, delete and report on problem postings within Social Sites modules including but not limited to Microblogging, Activity Streams, Communities and Spheres.

The Compliance Sheriff SP2010 Suite and the NewsGator Connector Work Together to Automatically Monitor Social Sites Communications to:

Protect your organization’s reputation by monitoring social computing entities for inappropriate content and obscene language
Detect, flag and notify the individual who submitted the content and designated individual(s) like the Privacy Officer and department manager of the accidental posting of sensitive information for fast resolution and policy enforcement
Set-up Information Barriers between internal communities, such as research groups and traders in financial securities companies (“Information Barrier” in ISE Rule 810)
Leverage HR acceptable use policies to mitigate risk, protect the organization from potentially harmful exposure, educate employees and improve online behavior
Automate reporting and auditing of online portals
Receive automatic notifications for critical issues directly via email

Benefits

Protect your organization’s reputation internally and externally by ensuring that your enterprise social networking sites are constantly monitored
Monitor collaborative portals and other social forums for inappropriate content or company confidential information
Immediately identify Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) issues for correction before problems arise
Earn employee and customer confidence by providing a trusted online environment