UK businesses "crippled by compliance fears"

Unstructured data creates content minefield

Compliance issues top the list of companies’ content concerns, according to an e-Spirit survey of UK content managers.

The specialist software company undertook the research to discover the problems faced by business web, mobile and data users. It found that compliance is creating a regulatory minefield for companies’ around content. To help combat the millions of potentially illegal web pages and documents in the UK, e-Spirit has launched PDF Professional. The new FirstSpirit module enables users to edit content at one central location – so they can comply with both corporate design standards and government regulation. Through powerful audit tools, companies can roll back their documents to previoustates of evolution, providing a complete history of content – including exact references,external documents and datasources. Robert Bredlau, international director of business development at e-Spirit, commented:“Many companies are being increasingly crippled by compliance fears, being faced with a combination of huge amounts of unstructured data and increasingly strict regulation.”“PDF Professional allows content managers to address document management andcompliance issues,” he continued. “PDF documents can be updated centrally, ensuringcompliance and standardisation across all media.”