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NEW! – Preparing for AI Adoption

Organizations across public and private sectors are looking to harness the promise of AI; improving efficiency, automating processes, and supporting better decisions.

At the same time, many are realizing the risks of applying AI to file data that has accumulated over decades, with unknown quality, incomplete classification, and uncertain sensitivity. Left unchecked, this can result in flawed models, systematically inaccurate decisions, and exposure to regulatory and operational risk.

Managing the Risks of Microsoft Office Files

In many organizations, business-critical workflows are built around Office files, particularly Excel. These processes have typically evolved over many years, creating a network of hidden dependencies; reliance on legacy file formats, links between files, and embedded macros. When files are moved, archived, deleted, or migrated, these dependencies are broken, leading to costly operational disruptions, incorrect results, and flawed business decisions.

Northern now gives organizations complete visibility into their ecosystems of Microsoft Office files.

Managing Permissions with NSS

Northern’s new Permissions Management module allows teams to resolve high-risk access configurations, overexposed files, and permissions that violate policy—before they’re exploited.

Version History Causing Storage Overage Fees in M365

Northern flagged M365’s Version History feature as a major contributor to data growth back in April. It’s a hidden factor and very difficult to do anything about within M365’s own admin center. This is changing, as Microsoft responds to our calls for better controls, but the response is slow and selective. Not wanting to leave our customers dependent on other’s timelines, Northern has continued to improve our standard workflow for Version cleanup.

File Data in Public Cloud: The Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Is your organization making increasing use of a public cloud service for file storage? Almost all organizations are today, and it makes a lot of sense; easily scalable and accessible from anywhere. But just because the data is no longer hosted in your own data center doesn’t mean that you can stop caring about it.

Reducing M365 Storage Overage Fees

It turns out that storage in the cloud isn’t free after all. The financial reality may not be a surprise to all, but for many senior decision makers it’s coming as a shock, a monthly and increasingly intimidating shock. Digital Workspace owners are rushing to control M365 Storage Overage Fees.

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As Microsoft Copilot rolls out, data governance takes center stage – again

A corporate AI solution is an information-mining and accessibility solution. Put it into the hands of a user and every tiny piece of sensitive information that that user could ever hope to find, in the large pool of files they have access to, is now just one question away.

Northern Shortens Large Scale Data Migration Project by 8 Months – a 33% Reduction

One of Northern’s largest customers, a multinational company with tens of thousands of employees, is currently migrating a large portion of its file data from a NAS in a central data center and some 80 global file servers to a new cloud-based file storage platform.

7 Compliance Mistakes to Avoid

Foundational systems of record and digitally enabled workflows are key to GRC initiatives relating to data.

Another US state to introduce tougher data privacy legislation, and federal legislation is getting closer

Connecticut has now become the fifth U.S. state to enact a comprehensive data privacy statute, joining California, Colorado, Utah, and Virginia.

Reduce Risk

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Increase Efficiency

Corporate Responsibility

Centralized File Service Management (CFSM)

Information Governance and Compliance (IGC)

Self-Service Data Management (SSDM)

File Service Cost Distribution (FSCD)

Data Stewardship Framework (DSF)