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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AIIM

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For a file share cleanup , it may make more sense to go in phases or target particular departments or processes. Or is much of it redundant, outdated or obsolete, or trivial (ROT)? But the reason will impact the overall migration process. What’s the Scope of the Migration? Does it store information that can no longer be recreated?

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Metadata Records Management ROT Cleanup 104

Everteam

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Our technology framework outlines how you can do that, and what tools and technology are required. If it’s true that almost 80% of the information an organization has is ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivial, then there’s a ton of work to be done to find that information, clean it out and organize what’s left.

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Information governance Government Records Management ROT 40