Records Management News & Articles

The Governance Portal, a software platform by Protiviti, has received an update. Version 3 offers enhancements to a GRC tool aimed at integrating proprietary information and expertise with a trusted framework for managing and mitigating the risks associated with compliance and regulatory issues.

From surveys and self-assessments to data collection and audit management, users can implement new features in the Governance Portal to help them manage enterprise and operational risks, optimize internal audit processes while monitoring compliance risks.

New York-based docSTAR has just upgraded and released its v3ten document management solution, which the company says represents a significant upgrade to its platform.

Like the other eight upgrades and/ or releases to the other document management systems that have been covered here since the beginning of August alone, this one, the company says, will revolutionize the document management world.

The principal difference over their 3.9 version, which was released last October, appears to be a better user experience all round.
 

Digital Reef (news, site), fresh of their announcement of a new CEO, has announced a new partnership with Anacomp.

A provider of litigation support and businesses process services and solutions, Anacomp has formed a technology alliance with Digital Reef in an effort to offer advanced document connection, selection, reduction and analysis, as well as early case assessment. Their services aim to reduce eDiscovery costs, as well as to accelerate litigation processes and mitigate risks.

Anacomp (site) updated its CaseProduction module, which is part of CaseLogistix, to improve and refine eDiscovery and document production.

In the Terminator series, the evil computer network Skynet leads the rise of machines in an effort to destroy humanity. Hopefully things won't go that far in a new report called The Rise of Information Governance, which tackles the often complex, confusing and confounding issues of information management and all that it encompasses.

The report, written by the 451 Group, attempts to define information governance, as well as examine the market dynamics and drivers, adoption trends and profiles of 15 vendors working towards information governance zen.

This week in governance, risk and compliance brings us partnerships, advice and lessons learned from the recession.

Everybody is talking about how to use cloud computing to do more, spend less and bring more zenful moments to your IT department.  But how do the economics of Software as a Service (SaaS) work when compared to traditional deployed software?

Yes, there are the obvious points (no servers, wee!). But there are also more subtle bits to the equation.

If this is your cup-o-tea, join in this Thursday at 1pm Eastern time for a complimentary one-hour live webinar. The host will be Dan Carmel, a respected content management authority.

Dan will be discussing:

• Factors that go into calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Costs and benefits of SaaS vs on-premises software
• How to achieve high return on investment while reducing risk
• Who’s buying SaaS solutions, and why
• When SaaS is not the right answer

Dan will also talk about SaaS integration strategies that drive ROI by leveraging other SaaS and on-premise applications such as SharePoint and Force.com.

By attending this event, you will:

• Be better equipped to answer tough ROI questions
• Have a solid understanding of the specific economic factors that go into a SaaS content management decision

Register now for The Economics of SaaS vs. On Premises Solutions. The event runs this Thurs, August 6th at 1pm Eastern time / 10am Pacific time.

The launch of Xerox's (news, site) enhanced eDiscovery solution that should dramatically reduce the time it takes companies to fulfill eDiscovery and compliance obligations in languages other than English, should shake things up in the battle for dominance of the eDiscovery market.

With a name Immigrations Services would be proud of, the new solution, called Foreign Language Identifier (FDI), works with 45 languagues and streamlines the document review processes in eDiscovery searches. At least that's what they say.
 

IT management software company CA (news, site), along with interactive marketing company Acxiom have set out to produce an enterprise class, cloud-based information governance solution. This new partnership aims to tap into the blossoming eDiscovery market by providing a solution that both companies say cannot be beaten for value.

The timing of this announcement is interesting considering Arkansas-based Acxiom is just about to release its Q1 figures, which it has already indicated in June would be close to 21% lower than Q1 last year.

 For anyone that thinks current technologies are a bit one-sided in their cultural orientation -- that they are focused on English speaking, or at the outside, European-language speaking countries -- then the launch of ibml’s global language in-line document scanning will probably be a surprise.

Sure, DocNetics, which is ibml’s image analysis and interpretation platform, and into which the new multilingual solution will be integrated, can take in the usual culprits like French, Italian, Spanish or even Japanese, but ibml says the new solution can also scan documents in Middle Eastern and Asian languages including Arabic, Persian (Farsi, Dari), Pashto, Urdu, Hebrew, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean and Russian.
 

Ohio-based Hyland Software has announced that it has launched its SaaS enterprise content management system OnBase in Europe with its first operation centre already opened in London.

As a specialist in medical document management, they really couldn’t have picked a better location as the English National Health Service, like its counterparts across Europe, are just about bankrupt and will be in the market for any solution that will cut costs.

In the cloud, a rainy day would consist of massive amounts of lost information without explanation or recovery options.

It could happen.

In case of such a hosted apocalypse (or, in the event of a much less serious instance, like when documents need to be accessed offline), a company called LTech has released Google Docs Backup, a downloadable tool for improved backup, archiving, and management of Google Docs. As the reported first enterprise partner of Google to offer such a solution, their credibility is already turning heads.

In May, Kazeon (news, site) released their fourth generation eDiscovery software. Opening it up to the likes of corporations, legal service providers and law firms, working smarter and faster got easier. Continuing in the same direction, Kazeon recently announced the arrival of the Kazeon eDiscovery Domino Manager.

The Domino in question refers to IBM's Lotus Domino, which provides enterprise-grade e-mail, collaboration capabilities and a custom application platform. With Kazeon's Domino Manager, companies can implement a streamlined and transparent workflow for litigation responsiveness. By combining Kazeon’s eDiscovery solutions with Domino, direct native connectivity can deliver comprehensive and defensible eDiscovery across the enterprise.

This week’s release of RapidReveiw v2.0 by MediConnect Global sees an upgrade to a document management system designed specifically for the medical profession, and goes another step towards getting rid of illegible paper records from surgeries.

As a scalable system that maintains a beginning-to-end track of all alterations to medical records, this latest version will code, index and extract all necessary data need to construct a complete medical profile of patients.

And, MediConnect says, the system is completely secure with strict permissions to reassure people who are afraid that their medical history could end up on a public Facebook site once it has been ingested into the system.

Earlier this year AIIM (news, site) released its annual State of the ECM Industry 2009 report which found that overall, electronic content at an organizational level is in a mess.

Revisiting the report in the cold light of day AIIM President John Mancini summed up the findings of the report on the Digital Landfill blog recently.

Hardly a day goes by that we don't find ourselves covering some of the eight facts about document management that he raises. Three of these in particular, strike a chord with us, as we are sure they do with you.

• Email Exposure
• Legal Discovery
• SharePoint Deployments