Records Management News & Articles

It’s been in the air for a few weeks but now it’s official. Laserfiche has been awarded DoD 5015.2 for its integration with SharePoint 2010.

This week new research from Check Point, carried out by the Ponemon Institute shows that many systems administrators get very jumpy when enterprise users try to deploy Web 2.0 apps, believing that the apps will expose systems to outside interference. Some GRC attention with a new partnership.

AIIM (news, site) posed an interesting question: Have you (really) embraced Electronic Records Management (ERM), or are you still stuck in the age of paper management?

Judging by a recent personal experience when visiting a local government office, ERM has long ways to go and AIIM's 2010 Records Management toolkit might just be that guiding star.

As more and more financial advisers wade into social media, the seas are still uncharted. There are still risks associated with combining the financial and social media industries.

Though many businesses are still resistant to engage via social media platforms, research has shown that if done correctly, the results can be beneficial.

Six months ago Bridgeway Software released an update to their legal hold solution. Inspired by their conversations with customers, new features were added.

This week is dominated by e-Discovery with the release of new software from Autonomy that the company says will dramatically cut times and costs in legal review, while IBM and PSS Systems integrate for better legal hold. Social media and compliance is also the target of a new release from LiveOffice.

With all the raz-ma-taz around the release of SharePoint in May, and the rush to SharePoint deployments, many enterprises forgot to ask themselves whether they should deploy it. There are also possible GRC issues for open source GPL licenses, new research shows.

You could never accuse Autonomy (news, site) of letting the grass grow under its feet. Only a month after it announced it was buying CA’s (news, site) information governance business, it has closed the deal despite indications at the time that this would take some months. And it has already integrated its IDOL search platform into what was CA’s Message Manager.

Long weekends are usually short on news, but not this time. Over the past few days, a new suite of mobile Office applications has just been unveiled, while SharePoint is not the only software to get records management, with IBM’s Lotus Domino platform getting a little records management love too.

Laserfiche (news, site) has become the first Microsoft Partner to achieve joint DoD 5015.2 certification for its integration with SharePoint 2010.

If you were always worried about the plug-ins you use and the security threat they might pose, Google seems to agree and has just announced that it is going to limit certain plug-ins with its Chrome browser. Social Media also poses a security threat according to the Ponemon Institute.

This week, Microsoft’s Dynamic’s CRM gets new document management functionality from Motive’s M-Files, while Google Docs now supports Microsoft Word. Document capture specialist ABBY’s new Recognition Server tackles mass document capture.

When one thinks of advanced electronic records management, what comes to mind? High volume simplification? Indexing and search capabilities? Automated management? If so, then ASG Software Solutions (news, site), a worldwide leader in business solutions for global enterprises, would like you to meet their new Records Manager.

Since EMC launched its SourceOne family, a suite of archiving, e-Discovery and compliance solutions, in April 2009, the family has been constantly growing. First they focused on email management. Now, they’re introducing two new members, SourceOne File Intelligence and File Systems. Both products are focused on addressing unstructured content.

Since technology, from the printing press to the mobile phone, has entered our lives, there has been someone to remind us that it is slowly ruining it, especially when it comes to Enterprise 2.0.