Greenheart Consulting Partners LLC

In this age of information, companies in all verticals are experiencing unprecedented data flow through their many and disparate systems. The complexity of managing this volume of information has been compounded by the evolving regulatory landscape governing a significant number of industries, and the awareness that proactive information management offers a cost effective, elegant solution has taken hold. Information Governance is this holistic approach, and is defined by Gartner as "..an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information."

This explosive growth of information under management has coincided with the redefinition of several key industry sectors responding to pricing and value pressures. The decline of the billable hour as the pricing standard in the legal industry has increased the need for law firms to deliver higher value services more efficiently and in a cost effective framework, and the effective management of information, the lifeblood of the professional services vertical, is a crucial element in this effort. At the same time, the rules and regulations in the major jurisdictions of commerce have also evolved and expanded, making it increasingly difficult for rapidly growing companies to keep pace with new requirements for managing information.