“The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will revolutionize the way in which most companies with partners or clients resident in the European Union source, verify, secure, use, retain and distribute their data. It gives new rights to EU citizens that are the subjects of this data. GDPR will force medium and large companies to appoint new, independent personnel charged with monitoring data processing, servicing the rights of data subjects and reporting breaches. With a target implementation date in May 2018, many companies are concerned about their ability to meet this regulatory standard.” In his new article Jan Purchase explains how Decision Management will help to support GDPR.