{"id":708,"date":"2008-11-10T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2008-11-10T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:00:48","slug":"records-management-state-of-the-enterprise-rm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/records-management-state-of-the-enterprise-rm\/","title":{"rendered":"Records Management:  State of the Enterprise RM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three quarters of companies are not adequately managing their company records.  That&#8217;s the result of a <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"ARMA Records Management Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/?ndmViewId=news_view&#038;newsId=20081020005738&#038;newsLang=en\">report <\/a>commissioned by CA, Inc and conducted by ARMA International.  Oddly enough, the results come from 1062 of the total 9000 RM professionals that belong to ARMA &#8212; a group that you&#8217;d expect to have a good grasp on RM.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75 percent do not have a system in place for managing their electronic and paper documents and records.<\/li>\n<li>62 percent do not have an email archiving system<\/li>\n<li>72 percent feel unprepared around what needs to be done for email management<\/li>\n<li>68 percent feel unprepared around what needs to be done for eDiscovery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two Thirds of the respondents have a data retention policy in place.  And half of those with retention policies use the same policy for both electronic and paper records<\/p>\n<p>The group was asked by ARMA to rank the sources of company information that were most important for data management within their organization.  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