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What is Information Capture? Definition, Purpose, and Value

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The first step on this journey is to get all of your information into the information ecosystem. This is a practice called Capture. What is Information Capture? Much of that context is captured in the form of metadata. Capturing Value. Place the record into a controlled environment.

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What is the Value of Records and Information Management?

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To help answer that, take a quick mental inventory of all the technologies your organization utilizes that interact in some way with organizational information. Think about technology like email, personal computers, the web, smart phones, social media, etc. Now ask yourself – who is in charge of managing all of that information?

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Capturing Paper Documents - Best Practices and Common Questions

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First developed over 30 years ago, capture systems have evolved from simple solutions for basic scanning into sophisticated and expensive systems for enterprise-wide document automation. The type and quality of documents to be captured. What is Scan and Store? And why is it important? What are the common issues with Scanning?

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