Meet Knowledge Sharing Winner: Sonali Bhavsar

About Sonali Bhavsar

Sonali Bhavsar has over 10 years of experience working in Fortune 500 companies and boutique consulting firms who specialize in providing solutions to vertical sectors such as financials, insurance, healthcare and life sciences. Sonali is currently a Solutions Architect in the Information Governance practice at MicroLink LLC, a subsidiary of Autonomy and leading an information governance team as Senior Program Manager for a federal agency.  She has a unique combination of business and technical skills around Records Management, Archiving and eDiscovery.

Prior to joining MicroLink LLC, Sonali played a critical role in architecting a new practice for Electronic Communications Compliance and Risk Management at Paragon Solutions where she led new solution offerings. Sonali has earned a master's degree in Information Systems from Temple University and a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai.  She is currently pursuing executive management education from Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia.  Additionally, Sonali is EMC Proven Professional certified and has participated in the annual EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing competition.

Sonali Bhavsar's 2nd Place Knowledge Sharing Article

Mergers and acquisitions have become the norm in today’s business environment. This development has placed an increased focus on governance and compliance to identify relevant data within the existing repositories.

Companies are constantly faced with the challenge of how to integrate official records under centralized taxonomy rules, support one entry point for search, and maintain the record repository for audit as well as e-discovery. How do you develop a successful program to address these basic issues? Should you just install a search appliance which serves search and e-discovery needs? The answer goes beyond choosing a third-party tool or selecting a vendor to provide a solution.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Sonali Bhavsar provides best practices along with a step-by-step procedure covering strategies you can adopt to centralize records across your company. Sonali explores the challenges faced by technology decision makers in looking at all aspects of records stored in disparate repositories spread across multiple vendors (for example: Autonomy, IBM FileNet, Email Archiving—in-house or vendor-specific—and EMC Documentum) and goes on to suggest best practices that can be incorporated prior to making a decision for decommissioning or adding new repositories.

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