Legally Defensible Electronic Records Management
Almost every organization already have an extensive volume of unstructured content stored on an array of different storage environments. And almost every organization feel that they have good control over these records and that these records are under proper retention control. The challenge is that when many organizations decide to store these records on [...]
While many organizations have already migrated to a digital or enterprise records management environment, there is still a significant number of organizations that have not done so following industry or ISO best practices and/or standards. These best practices and standards provide guidance related to ensuring that electronic records are not only stored safely, but [...]
The volume of these attacks has been substantially increasing over the past several years and months, many that are so destructive that they have been raising significant concerns at the state and national levels—especially for organizations such as government agencies, healthcare facilities, and banks, along with private organizations (no one is immune to these attacks !!).
Earlier this month Pacific Gas & Electric Company was found by a jury not guilty of 6 counts of knowingly failing to keep accurate records. The company was convicted on several other counts including the failure to gather information on its pipelines and on obstructing a federal investigation into the 2010 blast that killed eight [...]
How often have you found yourself looking at the PDF on the screen and scratching your head wondering why a word or phrase you are looking at on the monitor or printout just can’t be found in the PDF. Well you are not alone, and in fact very recently EID, Inc. identified the issue during [...]
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), a California utility, may well find itself featured in those "don't be like" commercials. You know the ones where that guy makes poor decisions (such as choosing cable television instead of the competitor) that leads to a series of disasters. In PG&E's case, rather than waking up in a ditch, [...]
EID Principal, Robert Blatt and US District Courts, Steve Levenson were presenters at the annual conference for the County Recorders’ Association of California and California Association of Clerks and Election Officials. The seminar participants learned the best strategies to meet the goal for managing and storing of electronic records. One strategy is to implement standard [...]
When Dublin San Ramon Services District needed help with their Records Management situation, they turned to Robert Blatt and Virginia Jo Dunlap of Electronic Image Designers, Inc. (EID) to help them navigate the world of electronic content management (ECM). The District selected this team partially due to the fact that Jo was the project [...]
The authenticity of electronic records is becoming as important as capturing and maintaining electronic content. Questions have been arising in lawsuits and criminal prosecutions about whether electronic records are reliable and trustworthy.
Records out of control? Do you have too many electronic copies of one document so you don’t know which version is the latest? You know you want (and need) to fix it, but how do you start? Where to start is actually easy. Begin with an assessment to determine exactly where your records are and [...]
