{"id":3284,"date":"2012-10-09T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2012-10-09T07:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:00:55","slug":"records-management-federal-agencies-to-be-paperless-by-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/records-management-federal-agencies-to-be-paperless-by-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Records Management: Federal Agencies To Be Paperless by 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Obama administration has set a goal for the federal government to go completely paperless<\/em> by the end of 2019, just seven years away. \u00a0And agencies need to have their plans in place for how they can go totally electronic by the end of next year. \u00a0This goal is part of an initiative being led by NARA<\/a>, the federal government’s records administration.<\/p>\n

The other goal of the new Obama initiative is for federal agencies to fully manage both permanent and temporary email records<\/em> by the end of 2016. \u00a0Email will need to follow the same records management and litigation policies and procedures used for other document types. \u00a0It will be necessary to be able to retrieve email records for as long as those email records are needed.<\/p>\n

Mary Murley<\/a>, program manager at Iron Mountain Consulting Services, said that <\/a>\u201cThe directive proposes an ambitious vision for creating a digital foundation. \u00a0This is an enormous undertaking for all agencies involved. It will not be easy, and it will require significant time, resources and budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the goals are certainly admirable, the road to achieving them will be difficult. \u00a0Brian Hill<\/a>, a principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., was quoted by\u00a0Ben Cole<\/a> of\u00a0TechTarget SearchCompliance<\/a>, as saying that\u00a0“I think the current situation for records management at many federal government agencies is really a mess right now. \u00a0In talking with federal government agencies over the last year or so, it’s really clear that there are a lot of broken processes and defective applications around organizations today.”<\/p>\n

Further, a survey of federal agencies by IronMountain <\/a>to determine overall readiness for addressing these goals found that only 9 percent of federal agencies felt that they had sufficient expertise with cloud computing and newer data management technologies.<\/p>\n

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The Obama administration has set a goal for the federal government to go completely paperless by the end of 2019, just seven years away. \u00a0And agencies need to have their plans in place for how they can go totally electronic…<\/span><\/p>\n

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