Leading Analyst Firm includes Jordan Lawrence as “Cool Vendor” in Risk Management, Privacy, and Compliance 2011

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jordan Lawrence, a leader in developing records retention and information governance policies and programs and a pioneer in providing consultative services through a SaaS model, has been named a “Cool Vendor in Risk Management, Privacy and Compliance”* by Gartner, Inc.

“We appreciate Gartner’s recognition as a Cool Vendor and see it as confirmation of the value we bring to multiple stakeholders tasked with risk management, privacy, and compliance,” said Marty Provin, Executive Vice President of Jordan Lawrence.“In terms of accuracy, speed and cost effectiveness in collecting information from across the business, our Assessment can’t be matched.”

Jordan Lawrence’s core service, the Assessment for Records Risks™, offers a unique combination of professional support and technology that enables organizations to collect unprecedented amounts of information, enterprise-wide, from business representatives and subject matter experts in a matter of weeks and at a fraction of the cost of traditional consulting.Assessment results support a number of information governance and privacy initiatives driven by General Counsel, Record Managers, Privacy Officers, and Security Officers who need to be faster and more efficient in inventorying enterprise information and business processes.

*Gartner, Inc. Cool Vendor in Risk Management, Privacy and Compliance, Carsten Casper, Kenneth Chin et al, April 15, 2011.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Jordan Lawrence

For over two decades, Jordan Lawrence (www.jordanlawrence.com) has been providing the nation's best companies with objective, high-impact solutions designed to regain control of information. Their proprietary and industry tested solutions help their clients to:

Establish and enforce corporate records and privacy policies.
• Defensibly eliminate unnecessary records and information.
• Identify all sensitive information, on all media, inside and outside the company.
• Reduce the costs and time in deploying DLP and compliance solutions by two-thirds.

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