Document & Records Management

iManage has announced the opening of an R&D and support centre in Belfast, Ireland, focused on records management, information governance and security issues as they pertain to professionals and their management of work product.

New Zealand government agencies have been given a rap on the knuckles for poor record-keeping practices in the 2014-205 annual report from Archives New Zealand, which found that that important documents could be damaged, destroyed or inappropriately accessed as a result.

More than 35 years have passed since British-American information scientist, Frederick Wilfrid, first envisioned a ‘paperless office’ in 1978. Today, the reality is that the physical page continues to be a central part of daily office life.

Evolver, Inc. has announced new and enhanced features to its XLerator tool used to review and produce redacted native Excel files in a more time efficient and cost effective manner.

Autodesk has announced what it terms a ‘New World Order’ in Construction Document Management” with BIM 360 Docs. This new cloud-based service for the construction industry will provides a virtual workspace to create, access, maintain, mark up and share 2D and 3D project documents, plans and models. The product is expected to come to market in early 2016

Taking a look at all the activity related to Big Data one should ask the question, how much of Big Data is actually useful. By applying just a little common sense we discover only a small amount.

Let me start by saying that I'm not in the business of knocking solutions from any vendor within the Enterprise Information Management space. All commercial, off-the-shelf solutions have a place within the global market and all suit particular requirements and purposes. Within the EIM industry, we are experience quite a lot of change in the way that we are required to store and manage records effectively, how we respond to discovery requests and how we meet regulatory requirements placed on us by government, industry or other authorities.

DocsCorp has announced plans to deliver a new, cloud-based capability that will be called DocsCorp Cloud. In addition, DocsCorp will publish new Add-Ins that will extend the functionality of cleanDocs and compareDocs within Office 365.

The Western Australian Department of Commerce (D0C) has selected ELO Digital Office to streamline the Department’s corporate records management cycle (Capture, Storage & Retrieval) and integration capabilities.

Some danger areas in Government information-handling in the transition to a digital records management system have emerged.

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