Records Management News & Articles

Security is again on the radar with Microsoft offering micro-enterprises free copies of its Security Essentials solution, while Google says it is introducing compliant records management to Apps through software start-up RecMan. Meanwhile, research from Spiceworks shows SMB spending is on the rise.

For SpringCM (news,  site), the latest in a string of upbeat announcements over the past year is that it has successfully raised another round of financing, to the tune of US $ 15 million, for the development of its cloud platform.

We recently introduced you to Smarsh, an organization that provides hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, including various social media platforms. This week Smarsh and LIMRA formed a strategic partnership designed to help its members meet a variety of needs associated with electronic message archiving and compliance.

Open Text (news, site) has been offering a number of SharePoint based solutions and services for a while now. But thanks to their recent acquisition of Burntsand, they now have a full end-to-end implementation service offering for SharePoint 2010.

Earlier this week we said we’d come back and have a deeper look at Open Text and the announcement that it has released key integrations between its eDocs Edition document management software and its Social Workplace software. Here's a closer look.

This week from a GRC perspective was always going to be about announcements from the International Legal Technology Association’s (ILTA) conference in Las Vegas that runs until tomorrow. Nearly everyone is there including Autonomy, Open Text, IBM and Recommind. But there are others too and we’ll catch up with them next week.

Streamlining workflows is all the rage these days when it comes to eDiscovery. Clearwell’s new Review Module is no exception. It lets users simplify the process of reviewing data by not confining it to one tool at a time.

Companies face many challenges when it comes to choosing the eDiscovery platform that is right for them. Price, productivity and accuracy are all factors in their decision. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to effectively compare platforms and solutions against each other?

Seems security has been high on everyone’s list of priorities this week with FaceTime releasing its Socialite software to secure social networks, and HP buying Fortify to add application security at the blueprint stage. Not surprising though, after recent research from Gartner showing security software is a priority for enterprises.

The annual joint meeting of the Council of State Archives (CoSA), the National Association of Government Records Administrators and Archives (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) continued in DC today as a fortunate audience previewed the interface of the Distributed Custodial Archival Preservation Environments (DCAPE) Project.

With the expected explosion of email alone in the next 6 years, there needs to be a better way to perform discovery than keyword searches. The answer may be in visual analysis.

In an era in which the top 10 metropolitan cities lack the budget to create disaster recovery plans for its email systems, storage in the cloud is tempting.

The Annual Joint Meeting of the Council of State Archives (CoSA), the National Association of Government Records Administrators and Archives (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) kicked off this morning.

Attendance and visibility may have been reduced the first day, but clarity of vision was not. The first breakout session focused on the effectiveness of structured data.

It may be summer and the middle of what newspapers call the silly season, but there is still a constant trickle of new document management releases. Amongst this week’s highlights are more details on the Mac Office release in October, while Doculex announces the availability of new document management services. Laserfiche and SharePoint also got officially DoD certified.

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.