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Records Management: Federal Agencies To Be Paperless by 2019

By Dick Weisinger

The Obama administration has set a goal for the federal government to go completely paperless by the end of 2019, just seven years away.  And agencies need to have their plans in place for how they can go totally electronic

Records Management: NARA Grapples with Huge Volumes of Documents and Records

By Dick Weisinger

The National Archives (NARA) is struggling to keep up with managing the massive body of data as records created by government agencies. Records Management has become a serious problem for the federal government.  David Ferriero, Chief Archivist of the United

eDiscovery: Applying Analytics to Speed the Identification of Relevant Documents

By Dick Weisinger

eDiscovery is the process of recovering evidence in a legal case from electronically stored files, documents, and databases.  The process of eDiscovery starts with a request from an attorney to produce all documents related to specific keywords that were produced

Records Management: NARA struggling with Data Volumes, Social Media and the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration, against a backdrop of rapidly chaning technologies,  is under pressure to modernize their approach to managing records.  Historically NARA has been a trendsetter and a model for US businesses, showcasing best practices for

Records Maanagement: eMail No Longer the Most Requested Record Type for eDiscovery

By Dick Weisinger

As more enterprise data is being stored in content applications like SharePoint and Alfresco, and data from Social Media applications are increasingly being requested for eDiscovery.  Symmantec recently reported that e-mail is no longer the most requested type of eDiscovery record