1. High costs with the unstructured content growing exponentially with the SharePoint content spread over islands of information
Business implications:
• Extra $$$ for the IT - managing several islands of information; Extra $$$/ work for the information workers to utilize content as part of the business processes;
• Ineffective search leading to poor/limited decision making
2. Regulated Content not managed properly as part of a Unified Information Governance strategy
Business implications:
• Regulatory fines / Reputational risk
• Extra $$$ / work for the compliance team (DPO, etc.)
• Lack of tools to automate compliance / Extra $$$/ work to do it manually
3. IT - Scalability and performance issues with MS SQL in relation with unstructured content (blob), Data protection challenges & costs
Business implications:
• Extra $$$ for the IT (CPU, memory, storage)
• Extra $$$ for the IT (back-up, DR scenarios)
• Extra $$$ in relation with the DBA
• Lower productivity for LoB users in relation with the business apps