Special Reports
7 Ways to Take Control of Your Records Management Program
Taking control of your records management program can be very challenging; you need to know what can be controlled and what is
beyond control. This special report addresses many of the challenges records management professionals face when trying to implement a strong records management program. It includes tips, ideas and strategies that enable you to take control of your records management program and put you in a position to stay there.
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ROI of Records Management for Legal Discovery
For most companies that implement records management software systems for legal compliance and corporate records departments, the return on investment (ROI) is most often cost avoidance rather than a true financial return. The assurance of never failing a regulator’s audit, the ability to expeditiously locate and retrieve critical documents, or need to offer defensible protection in the face of litigation often motivate the adoption of records management systems and programs. This report will present financial ROI scenarios for companies that employ effective Records Management software to improve efficiency, accuracy and productivity throughout the legal discovery process.
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7 Reasons to Realign Your HR Document Management Strategy
Most Human Resource (HR) departments have an abundance of software systems and processes to support the duties of employee recruitment, on-boarding, performance evaluation, recognition, training, employee development and other day-to-day activities. Your HR systems strategy is part of an overall HR strategy that needs to be reviewed on an annual basis. The two primary systems of a progressive HR department are HRIS and Document Management. In respect to the Document Management system used by the HR department, there are a multitude of new technologies and vendors that are worth evaluating, based on the needs and evolving priorities. This white paper aims to put these technologies in context of the common problems they intend to resolve.
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Going Paperless Is Easy - Getting Started Is Hard
From reducing costs and streamlining processes to taking a more environmentally-friendly approach, there are numerous reasons why companies are striving to go paperless. While there may have been an initial goal in making the transition, those that have achieved at least some degree of success have found additional, unexpected benefits. For example, a company may have implemented a paperless initiative with the goal of reducing costs but found they also dramatically improved in the area of compliance. The most daunting challenge that an organization faces in the quest to create a paperless working environment is determining how to get started. This special report provides you with better insight into how to launch a paperless initiative and helps you anticipate and overcome some of the common hurdles standing in your way.
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Aligning Your Records Management Systems with ARMA Int'l GARP Principles
This white paper has been developed by OmniRIM as a service to its clients and to provide guidance on the emerging issue of Information Governance.The management of information and records has come under increased scrutiny over the last seven years, starting with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and continuing with the guidelines of the Sedona Conference (USA and Canada versions), and the revised USA Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The focus of these legislative and regulatory efforts has been to put the onus on organizations to show due diligence and best efforts in their governance of electronic information and hardcopy records. However, their governance efforts are proving to be much less effective in the absence of a standard set of principles by which they can judge their compliance performance.
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ARMA International HotTopic: Solving the SharePoint Puzzle
It’s no secret that organizations are deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 at a rapid rate. During the October 2009 sold-out SharePoint Conference, Microsoft announced that SharePoint Server is one of the fastest-growing products in Microsoft’s history, with more than $1.3 billion in revenue, representing more than a 20% growth over the past year. What may come as a surprise to some is that organizations are now using SharePoint extensively for records management. Find out how this is accomplished with this special report.
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Unifying Management of Physical and Electronic Records
Software from Archive Systems, the leading provider of software for physical records management, can be integrated with EMC Documentum
Records Manager, the leader in enterprise records management, to create a unified platform for managing all records across the enterprise. That means a single set of retention policies, classification metadata, and disposition policies can be applied to both electronic and physical records, and a single query can find and retrieve both electronic and physical records. This white paper explains the features and benefits of such a unified approach to enterprise records management, and describes how the EMC Documentum/OmniRIM solution works.
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21st Century Retention Schedules – Streamlined and Federated
Increasingly, organizations are acknowledging that all recorded information retained by employees is potentially discoverable in a court‐ordered legal discovery, regulatory investigation, or FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request. This report examines standardized retention rules that must be applied to all information formats and all media throughout the information lifecycle.
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