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Information Security is often seen as the bailiwick of the records management team and is, therefore, completely misunderstood, accoirding to BRM Holdich governance advisor Jo Stewart-Rattray.

The fax number may have disappeared off most business cards these days but fax technology is still a vital part of many essential business processes in 2014. The question for organisations today is whether they have optimised document automation and information capture for fax in their business processes.

I was fortunate enough to attend Microsoft’s World Wide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington DC last week and I have to say what a great experience it was and a refreshing view of what a Microsoft conference can be.

Extracting value from (Big) Data requires the right tools for extraction. In the pursuit of this value, large enterprises and administrations have spent very large sums of money on tools for data analysis and business intelligence. But these tools, mature as they are, can only tackle about 10% to 20% of the data most companies deal with today: structured data. They only address the structured data from enterprise applications pulled together in data warehouses and online analytical tools, including ERP, CRM, SCM, etc.

It's 2014 and our information stockpiles are growing fast. Where is the silver bullet that will magically fix our records management problems?  Where is the quick fix that will classify, appraise, protect, and dispose of our records? 

The U.K. government has adopted the Open Document Format (ODF) for sharing or collaborating on government documents.

I have written previously about ways to solve the shared drives problem (click here) and I have written numerous articles (and a book) about ways to manage emails and electronic/digital records. However, we still receive multiple requests from customers and prospective customers about the best, and simplest, way to effectively manage these problems.

Most organisations do not realise that they can automatically extract information and value from text. Typically, they employ humans to do this manually, or worse, they ignore text altogether. Have you considered the cost to your business of creating and then storing data that just gets lost in your systems

Retirement may be an ending, but it can also offer the promise of a new beginning. This was certainly the hope held out by Tasmania’s Retirement Benefits Fund when it chose to retire a set of legacy applications and host all the data instead in its TRIM EDRMS.

The engine room of Australia’s Democracy is being overhauled with the rollout of a new Web-based Parliamentary Workflow System (PWS) for 40 Australian federal government agencies. The new system promising greater transparency, cost efficiencies and  and improved record record-keeping  among other benefits, is now six months ahead of schedule, with the completed rollout expected  by July 2016.