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ISO/IEC 27001:2013 information security standard arrives

The revised BS ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and BS ISO/IEC 27002:2013 standards have been published. The standards which help businesses manage information security were first conceived at BSI, the business standards company, in the shape of BS 7799. 

Top 7 SharePoint document scanning best practices

Are you planning to scan and digitise all your paper documents and manage them electronically in SharePoint?  Then you are in the right place. SharePoint is a mature Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform that allows you to manage the full lifecycle of content in an orgnisation. However in order to get the maximum value of its rich ECM capabilities you need get the content into SharePoint the right way

Lexmark Acquires PACSGEAR

Lexmark International has acquired PACSGEAR, a provider of connectivity solutions for healthcare providers to capture, manage and share medical images and related documents and integrate them with existing picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems. Lexmark paid a cash purchase price of approximately $US54 million.

Developing a Legal Risk Model for Big Volumes of Unstructured Data

A not-so-hidden secret in information management is the out-of-control growth of unstructured data in corporate life. Millions of data files are stashed in loosely tracked and managed sources such as email, social media sites, and SharePoint, and the contents of these massive repositories are often poorly managed and understood. Unstructured data accounts for 90 percent of the digital universe, according to IDC, which estimates that these files are growing at a rate of 50 percent per year.

Reinventing Archival Methods: Issues papers

A series of issues papers suggesting ways that the the record-keeping profession can better deal with the volume, fragility and complexity of contemporary archival records has been published by the Recordkeeping Roundtable.

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