Publishing

Companies in the publishing industry are home to constantly-changing data. Hundreds of thousands of pages worth of literature that is under consideration or already accepted for publication takes up a huge amount of space on file systems, and this data is constantly being read, edited, leveraged for marketing and design purposes, and otherwise accessed as part of necessary daily procedures. IT staff in the publishing industry have to work hard to ensure that the permissions challenges associated with this unstructured data are met; data must be accessible to the correct parties across the environment – not only the in file system, but also in Exchange and SharePoint –and some data must be separated by internal ethical walls to avoid conflict – such as keeping the bid or purchase price for a particular book confidential until the publisher sees fit to release it.

Compounding the issue is the fact that, increasingly, publishing professionals are turning to mobile devices to read and share prospective projects on the go. As a result, being able to monitor and report on the presence of those devices is an important initiative for IT administrators.