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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. Whether it’s your network file shares, EFSS locations such as Box and Dropbox, or even your email accounts, a large portion of content and records is essentially useless. Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1. Does it drive workflow?

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Records Management in the Intelligent Information Era

AIIM

Defining a New Era of Records Management. Records management has traditionally been significantly focused on compliance. We argued in the AIIM 2019 State of the Industry – Content Services that “[information management] is better sold indirectly – as a byproduct of automation and customer experience – than head-on.”.

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MS Teams Information Governance - A Checklist for Success

AIIM

Create an information governance team including representatives from IT, Records Management, Compliance, Legal, Information Security, and Line of Business. Don’t burden a records manager with your end users’ day-to-day jobs; take retention management out of their hands where possible by automating document classification and retention.

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

Information Management Specialists: A given migration could require advice and support from records managers, knowledge managers, document managers or document controllers, privacy and data protection specialists, and others. Or is much of it redundant, outdated or obsolete, or trivial (ROT)?

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What Can We Learn About the IG Profession from the ARMA InfoCon 2020 Taxonomy

ARMA International

Now, many of the terms in our taxonomy represent common themes you’d expect to see at an ARMA conference, terms like “records management,” “information governance,” and “information management.” On the need to reflect more clarity, a great example is the term “records management.”

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Cleansing Your Content: What a Novel Idea

Gimmal

Concept Searching and Gimmal are working together to offer more intelligent records management capabilities to organizations of all sizes. Below is our second in a series of blog posts written by Carla Mulley, Vice President of Marketing at Concept Searching.

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Common Problems with Content Migrations

AIIM

The international standard on records management, ISO 15489 defines migration as the: "Act of moving records from one system to another, while maintaining the records' authenticity, integrity, reliability, and usability.". But, migration is much broader than just records. This is also known as metadata enrichment.

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