Gimmal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. We collect data from organizations every day to understand why information governance problems exist, and there are generally five reason your files are ROT(ting). Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1.

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ROT Metadata Cleanup Records Management 52

Everteam

DECEMBER 17, 2018

You need to show them not only why you need to perform a data cleanup, but prove the ROI behind it. To help you out, here are four ways you can pull together the numbers to determine the ROI from cleaning out redundant, duplicate and trivial information (ROT). If it’s ROT, wouldn’t it make more sense to get rid of it completely?

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Cleanup ROT Archiving Compliance 49

The Texas Record

JUNE 26, 2023

Disposition Dispose of the ROT—redundant, obsolete, trivial—items before creating a new file structure. They will still need to learn the new structure within a set period. Train new employees about the file structure and how they are managed. Consider building periodic refreshers into your records training.

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Cleanup File names ROT Access 40

Everteam

DECEMBER 27, 2018

2018 was the year enterprises started seriously investing in their information governance programs. It’s not that they didn’t do governance before, but the increase in compliance and regulations, including the new privacy regulations has pushed for improvements to how enterprise think about and apply information governance processes.

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Information governance Government Records Management ROT 40