Tag Archives: Content Management
Quantifying Records Management
Those in the ECM community, Risk Management, Legal, IT and the Corporate Board Rooms have discussed why we need records management. Most of the discussions center around Compliance followed by Cost Savings. There are many variations on these themes but generally they … Continue reading
Document Capture
Much has already been written about capturing paper documents and their storage and retrieval. Technology exists at all levels for the capture of paper documents, from the mass scanning of documents, to full document OCR, and zone able OCR. The … Continue reading
Open Source vs. Paid ECM systems
There is a lot of news and buzz these days about Open Source systems and how they are “better” for an organization vs. the traditional paid source ECM systems. The industry is currently occupied by both types of systems. Open … Continue reading
Enterprise library
Everything a corporation owns is subject to discovery. Paper files, electronic, email, reports, web pages you get the idea. In making everything a company owns accessible and electronic, it also makes everything discoverable in a much more comprehensive and meaningful … Continue reading
ISO Standards and their Impact on Technology
Overview Reference MAP of ISO Standards and Implementation below: ISO 17799 This standard is called the Information Security Program Standards. Retention of information not only requires storage but it requires security. If you cannot ensure that the information you are … Continue reading
Types of RM Systems
RM or RMS Records Management Systems, which were once stand-alone platforms that mostly handled box management, have now been merged into larger organizations and now make up a component of a larger information management offering. DM or DMS Document Management … Continue reading
Record System Terminology
There are phrases and terms that are key in the records management community, many of which are also used in the technology and business communities. But across these communities, the terminology is often used in inconsistent and overlapping ways, which … Continue reading
What users see in an ECM
There is an art to Taxonomy design. When using an ECM package that has a folder structure as a part of its core method of storing documents (ie #Opentext or #SharePoint) there are many ways to implement this folder structure … Continue reading
Records Retention and Technology
I’ve been asked to participate in the writing of a book that is scheduled to be published here in the United States early next year. The book is about Records Retention and I’ve been asked to put together “Chapter 4″ … Continue reading
ACLs In the Enterprise Library
A while ago I was asked the question, How ACLs would work within the Enterprise Library. The idea is that when content is created in one “system” through a workflow or business process then that content needs to be available … Continue reading