Yes, we know change is constant, but it seems to be exponential at the moment, with no let-up in sight. Well I hate to tell you, but it is and there isn’t.
ECM vendor OnBase by Hyland has added former EMC executive Eugene Chng as its Director of Sales in Asia-Pacific, and according to reports the company has given up the chase to acquire capture specialist ReadSoft.
One of the recurrent themes at record keeping events is the frustration the record keeping community expresses at not having “a seat at the table”. I used to shift a little uncomfortably in my own seat because much of the frustration was directed at “IT people” like me.
Is electronic information “property”? That is, can it be possessed and controlled in the same way that physical objects can be? If one of your employees or a competitor obtains a database or set of files that resides on your network, does the law of property apply as if they had broken into your premises and made off with the office safe?
At some point, every specialist must complain about how their colleagues and clients “just don’t understand” what they do. But a particularly common version of this complaint today is the “recordkeeper’s lament”: Why don’t IT projects take record keeping requirements into account with new systems? How will we find records from these systems in 10 years time? Don’t these people know we are subject to record keeping legislation?
