Content may still be king, but now, the ownership and control over it may very well belong to the people! With new pressures introduced by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)... View More
Global supply chains have largely been ignored by content and process technology vendors. Despite strategic investments in supply chain management (SCM) software, companies still rely heavily on hard... View More
A business's records management department can play a key role in advancing the information governance initiative throughout the organization. As a neutral party, they can serve as a liaison for the various... View More
Establishing a collaborative information governance committee is vital to sustaining a records and information management (RIM) program. In the past, organizations often formed an oversight committee to... View More
To manage your organization's records, there are a couple of different models at either extreme: from a fully centralized records and information management (RIM) program to a decentralized approach, to... View More
Cleaning up your shared network drives and other unstructured data stores continues to be a major challenge for many organizations. This reinforces the fact that any remediation effort requires resources... View More
The use of the big bucket or small bucket retention method has been debated by proponents of each for many years. Is one method really better than the other? Certainly, one approach is not universally... View More
Can an organization manage the vast array of records and information assets without a third-party tool? While Microsoft Office 365 proclaims to have many records management capabilities, it also professes... View More
There are four fundamental questions senior executives must ask about records and information management (RIM) to fully understand the essential components of a RIM program. The answers discovered in the... View More
How prepared are you for a disaster? As we leave hurricane season behind us and make way for the winter storms ahead, consider that a disaster can also include a burst water pipe, fire, wind, and other... View More
This article appears in the Fall 2017 digital issue of DOCUMENT Strategy. Subscribe.There is a new specification on the block for managing electronic records. In August, the National Archives and... View More
Archive360, Inc., announced that its Archive2Azure managed compliance storage solution for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform has met the standards set forth by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,... View More
Content is so important that it could potentially stop your processes and freeze the business in its tracks. That’s right. I said it. In a recent AIIM Industry Watch report titled “2017 State... View More
BackupAssist, a leading provider of automated Windows server backup and recovery software for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), announced version 10 of the company's popular BackupAssist backup and... View More
With the rapid growth of digital content, ever-changing compliance regulations, evolving rulings on legal e-discovery, and the persistence of a “keep everything” culture, few organizations... View More
So, what’s so important about documents versus records in today’s digital enterprises? First, it’s important to understand that documents do not become records until they are declared... View More
We have been accumulating electronic documents in shared drives since the innovation of networked computers and file servers in the early 1980s. Folders and sub-folders defined in shared or network drives... View More
As Thomas Jefferson once said, “With great risk comes great reward.” The race toward competitive differentiation calls for organizations to be bold, but at what cost? In business, we must understand... View More
During the advent of the modern information technology age, Microsoft Outlook was the top communications tool. It organized everything from emails, contacts and calendars to managing our daily lives by... View More
In 2013, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued guidance to federal agencies for a simplified approach to managing email, known as the “Capstone” approach. The intent... View More
Generative AI (GenAI) is set to revolutionize the Customer Communications Management (CCM) industry, driving profound changes in how businesses interact with their customers
