Use Cases
Use Cases
Northern is able to deliver on a range of needs, from controlling storage infrastructure use, to improving data governance, compliance, and Records Management.
Below you can find examples of how customers are using Northern’s software solution (NSS) to manage their unstructured and semi-structured data – the specific challenges they are overcoming and the value they are realizing.
Northern deliver on a range of needs
From controlling storage infrastructure use, to improving data governance, compliance, and Records Management.
Learn more about how customers are using Northern’s software solution (NSS) to manage their unstructured and semi-structured data – the specific challenges they are overcoming and the value they are realizing.
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reduction: Northern Shortens Large Scale Data Migration
Project by 8 Month.
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data was reduced: after a month during the review & clean-up period at
users of Northerns’ customer.
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of file analysis products will include the full scope of risk mitigation, governance and compliance, efficiency and optimization analytics in 2024(Gartner 2020).
Power up your organization with Northern—here’s how
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.
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.
Northern summarizes the importance of identifying data owners in transformation projects, such as data migration, and describes proven methods for connecting shares, folders, sites, and drives with the users and groups who use them.
Identify and Remove Abandoned File Shares
The need to identify and remove email archives, particularly PST files, will resonate with many organizations.
Identify and Re-Permission Folders Where Administrators Have Limited Access
Give Managers Insight into Their Teams’ File Service Use
Redundant IT-Related Files
Measure and Expose Non Business-Related Data in Personal Drives.
Identify and Secure Folders where Inappropriate Groups Have Elevated Privileges.
Seeing is Believing
Reading about what other organizations have done is great, but seeing the software in action and being able to discuss your specific needs
is even better.