About Oyster IMS

We are Oyster IMS, a consultancy-led information management and information governance business delivering expert advice, working with best-of-breed software products and offering on-going and enduring services to public, private and third sector organisations. We help you to create, capture, store, manage, share and preserve your information and data in a secure, compliant and cost-effective fashion. We offer everything from one-off point solutions to solve a particular problem to a full multi-year end-to-end managed service.

Our story

Oyster IMS was founded by Daniel Murdoch and Josef Elliott in 2003 specifically to provide organisations with a way to manage the increasing volume, variety and velocity of information coming under their management. Since then business has grown year-on-year providing consulting, technology and managed service solutions to organisations small and large across the UK, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East.

We are privileged to work with a wonderful set of clients ranging from SME’s to multi-nationals and from local councils to international governmental organisations. One thing that has stayed consistent over the years has been our commitment to delivering high-quality services and products to each and every one of them and to ensure that our clients are at the very centre of all that we do. Long may it continue.

Whatever type of organisation you are, you have information and data everywhere…

We all know that the volume of data is increasing massively but it’s not just that – you’re also getting a whole variety of different types of information including social media, voice and video. And to make things worse it’s coming at you from all angles with constantly increasing velocity.

Oyster IMS can help you deal with these “three Vs” and work with you to manage the organisational risks, deliver to your demanding users and even begin to find ways to use that data to improve the way you work.

Here’s how we see Information Governance driven by a growing IT burden, business inefficiency and risk exposure …

Big Data

Data explosion — doubling every 12-18 months

New, unstructured data types to manage

Growth of ungoverned structured data

Migration activity and cloud readiness

Information risk

Compliance risk — GDPR, data protection and privacy

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Litigation risk — e-discovery readiness and workflows

Cyber risk — data breaches and employee malpractice

Reputational risk — BA, Talk Talk, Facebook and Marriott data breaches

Hidden value

Exploiting information can drive top-line growth

More efficient working practices

IG aware workforce drives best practice

Quick response

Data Discovery uncovers opportunities and threats

Demanding users

Always-on applications and users

Information availability and integrity needs to match users’ expectations

Information management needs to be embedded in business process and not be an additional obligation

Growing IT burden, business inefficiency and risk exposure are all driving smart organisations towards more investment in effective Information Governance.

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