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Records Management: Cost Overruns make NARA's new RM System a Billion Dollar One

By Dick Weisinger

Huge cost overruns on a new Records Management system being built for NARA now put a final price tag on a completed system near $1 billion, compared to an original estimate of $317 million.  Current estimates are that the project

Records Management: Making a Good RM Program Better

By Dick Weisinger

Oce Business Services recently reported on the results of a survey of Records Management programs currently in place at businesses having annual revenues greater than $100 million.   Their goal was to find out more about how existing RM programs

Records Management: Government Treading the Rough Waters of Social Media Records

By Dick Weisinger

Records Management has long been a complex and tedious undertaking, but the increased use of new social media technologies is making the task even more complicated.  Information conveyed via Social Media typically is characterized by frequent updates and refreshes.  Being

Records Management: Progress for Europe's MoReq2010

By Dick Weisinger

In the US, the Department of Defense’s 5015.2 specification is recognized as the “gold standard” when evaluating capabilities of Records Management systems.  In Europe, the comparable standard is MoReq or the Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records.  In

Records Management: Paper Records Slow to Die

By Dick Weisinger

An AIIM survey on the use of records management in organizations  in 2009 found explosive growth in the volume of electronic records being used, but somewhat surprisingly found little drop off in the use of paper records.  Paper remains at