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A simple guide to using shared drives to capture & classify electronic documents and emails

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.

Automating record-keeping what’s holding us back?

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? 

UK government embraces Open Document Format

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

Using Text Analytics to extract metatada from SharePoint

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

Retiring legacy applications with TRIM

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.

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