The Ponemon Institute and Metalogix have released results of a report focused on how organizations are keeping sensitive or confidential data safe in collaboration and file sharing environments such as SharePoint, Dropbox, and file sync and share applications. The findings are based on a survey with responses from 1,403 respondents from the United States , United Kingdom , and Germany .

My customers trust Associated Asset Management (AAM) with the creation, management, disposition and seamless access to their documents and official records. We take this role of the custodian of their documents very seriously as mismanaging them can lead to legal exposure for our clients. When it came time for AAM to replace our document management system, I became very interested in what makes Document Management implementations fail and what can be done to prevent it. Having successfully navigated our implementation, I wanted to share some of my findings.

A mass of corporate data is moving into the cloud. Much of it is there under Software-as-a-Service solution contracts. This data being essential for daily business, SaaS contracts handsomely cover service outages and access to service. Yet data ownership under these contracts is another matter. What can companies do to avoid losing it amid the convoluted interplay of SaaS vendors, software originators and owners, cloud operators, third parties, and even jurisdictions?