What are the cost implications of managing every email inside your organisation as a record? The question, posed in a Linkedin forum by ECM consultant Dean Fisk, resulted in one of the most vigorous on long-running discussions to appear in the social networking forum.

The worldwide market for hardcopy peripherals is in the midst of profound change as emphasis shifts from simple print devices to more comprehensive document solutions that increase efficiencies and control costs associated with printing in business environments. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide document solutions software revenues will grow from $US3.4 billion in 2010 to $US5.5 billion in 2015.