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5 Reasons Your Files and Records are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

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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Retention vs. Records Management

Gimmal

By minimizing the redundant, obsolete, and trivial content (ROT) , your organization organically generates cost savings. ROT makes it more difficult to find what you need when you need it. Retention is a strategy that focuses on reducing the volume of information your company has to manage.

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Yeah, That’s Why BuzzFeed News Failed.

John Battelle's Searchblog

In short, marketers refuse to stand up and back good journalism. The narrative that Buzzfeed News failed because Jonah Peretti didn’t focus on profitability, or because it was too dependent on Facebook, or because the SPAC market collapsed, is just shellac on systemic rot.

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Implementing Information Management on SharePoint and Office365

AIIM

It's hard to overestimate the impact of SharePoint on the information management market. Since its humble beginnings in 2001, it has grown to nearly 200 million seats and is found in every industry sector. If you're reading this blog post, you likely have SharePoint in your organization.

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4 Ways to Determine ROI around Data Cleanup

Everteam

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). And what about the information that is ROT (redundant, obsolete and trivial)? If it’s ROT, wouldn’t it make more sense to get rid of it completely? Storage Savings.

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Wells Fargo, revisited, again

InfoGovNuggets

This comes amidst an investigation by the CFPB as to whether the way these products were marketed was legal. How deep did the cultural rot go? The last two years have been tough for Wells Fargo. File this one under (a) Governance and (b) Compliance. And I guess under (c) Information, as well, if you do business with Wells Fargo.

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4 Steps in Streamlining Open Records Requests

Gimmal

Classification and proper records management techniques also help identify what needs to be retained and eliminate items that may be redundant, outdated, or trivial (aka ROT) without running afoul of regulations. Establishing an efficient solution begins by defining your needs.

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