Records Management News & Articles

Of the many reasons that companies give for selecting an eDiscovery platform, saving money is high on the list. As it should be. But companies may not realize just how much money can be saved or rather how much it can cost not to implement an eDiscovery solution.

Thanks for Galina Datskovsky, senior vice president and general manager of the Information Governance business unit within the Governance group at CA, we present the true cost of eDiscovery.

In 2008 and 2009 companies without an active policy and strategy for eDiscovery content archiving solutions will spent a third more on eDiscovery than those with content archiving solutions. Source: Gartner, E-Discovery: Project Planning and Budgeting 2008-2011, February 2008.

SpringCM (news, site) has brought out a new version of its SaaS based enterprise content management system today, adding features and functionality designed to support records management and make the lives of application developers a little bit easier.

As the biggest gathering of enterprise content management software professionals outside of the US, it is understandable that Momentum Europe should be producing some interesting Europe-centric announcements.

One of those comes from EMC (news, site) who have just announced that they intend to apply for MoReq2 certification for Documentum Records Manager next year.

EMC has a number of solutions for information governance and life-cycle management that can manage documents from creation to editing to archiving to destruction, depending on what its users need.

Congratulations are in order. Clearwell Systems (news, site) has been awarded US Patent No. 7,593,995.

For those of us who are not patent examiners, US Patent No. 7,593,995 refers to “methods and systems of electronic message threading and ranking.”

Partnerships are designed to be strategic, but not always collaborative. Until now. Kraft Kennedy and Equivio (news, site) have come together to provide technology and consulting.

Today eDiscovery workflow gets a little easier. Thanks to PSS Systems' (news, site) release of Atlas Compliance Automation 2.0 (ACA 2.0), a development platform that will let PSS clients and partners integrate the Atlas Suite with their information stores.

Early last month IBM (news, site) began the process of articulating its Smart Archive Strategy. Began, we say, because at the time of the announcement the company released IBM Information Archive, a disk-and-tape information infrastructure solution that offered a "unified storage” approach to archiving company information.

But they weren’t finished with that and only recently unveiled a number of other solutions that are designed to provide analytics and data discovery to companies looking to determine what information they should keep and what information they should bin.

Last month, Alfresco announced that it had gained the distinction of being the first and only open-source software developer to achieve DoD 5015.02 records management (RM) certification.

Microsoft has been was in compliance for years with DoD 5015.02 Chapter 2 (not the full certification), but they are in need of showing something new and competitive in SharePoint 2010’s RM offering.

Martin Tuip, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at Mimosa Systems, and Darrin Bishop, Darrin Bishop Group, tag-teamed a session at SPC09 on RM in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) to give us an idea of what changes have been made in the next release.

Editor's Note: We received confirmation from Microsoft that their SharePoint 2007 DoD 5015.02 Chapter 2 records management certification lapsed in May of this year.

Although SharePoint 2010 will not be certified with the DoD out of the box, they are working on certification plans.

Back in September, Alfresco (news, site) released an Amazon EC2 image for those wanting to use Alfresco Server in the cloud. This image has recently received some significant updates that might interest those who've been following recent developments with Alfresco products.

Back in April, ZL Technologies estimated that 90% of large enterprise archiving projects fail. This month, ZL continues to help companies overcome eDiscovery challenges by releasing its seventh major upgrade to its flagship product, ZL Unified Archive.

Following on the heals of their announcement to support SharePoint 2010, Laserfiche (news, site) announced that it is opening up shop in Hong Kong.

Based in Long Beach, California, the company says that the new office aims to make it easier for  companies in the Asia Pacific region to access their Rio Enterprise CMS product, although it is a given that they will be pushing their Business Process Management (BPM) and Personal Document Management (PDM) software as well.

Regardless of the current economic climate, saving money in a responsible way is a good thing. But these days many companies are looking to E-GRC and document management software to improve efficiency and lower costs.

In this guest article, Steve Schlarman of Archer Technologies asserts that you can reduce costs without compromising your governance, risk and compliance (GRC) structure. Let's have a look.

Looking for guidance on how to develop and execute a successful GRC program? In this article Sumner Blount highlights 7 best practices that can lead you on the path to Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) success.

In this article Computer Associates' Sumner Blount explains the four main principles of Lean GRC -- highlighting how companies can leverage the concepts of Lean Manufacturing and Lean IT to help streamline compliance and risk management efforts across the enterprise.

In addition to CA's release of GRC Manager 2.5, the world of GRC is chock-full of partnerships and inquiries.