Three of my colleagues just returned from the certification testing of TRIM against the latest version of the DoD 5015.2 standard, and once again TRIM has been certified against all chapters, which gives us an unbroken certification since the standard exists. This time around the certification was interesting...
There is no doubt that a lot of web content constitutes business records and must be managed. The question is which is the easiest way to achieve this? If the Web Content Management (WCM) system is the main tool for the creation of the web content, then it should provide an integration with the records...
Recently I have been providing quite a lot of advice to customers who want to embed TRIM tightly within their enterprise information topology and automate their information flow as much as possible. I think it would help many of you to understand what tools are available to create a truly unified information...
Many people are very helpful and attach documents to e-mails. This is convenient for the recipient who needs them to complete the task the e-mail asks for. However, for many other people and for the organization, every document attached to an e-mail can have negative effects. For people who aren't...
And so we start another year of blogging, emailing, instant messaging, powerpointing, and whatever other means we have to contribute to the information explosion. During the holiday break we had time to reflect on our life and most of us have come up with ambitious resolutions for 2009, mine are fairly...
By Rhys Jones To celebrate Halloween and the nightmare season we are offering a US $1,000 shopping spree at the HP online store to the person that tells us the best story of an information disaster. We are interested in hearing about disasters that impacted – or could have impacted – your backup and...
Over the last 200 years we moved from the agricultural age to the industrial age, and then on to the information age. Many of us now believe we are on the cusp of a new age - the Collaboration Age. Driven by the need for global operations but local, personalized products; driven by the need to vastly...
By Urs Raas - Market consolidation creates ever larger, more diverse customers for HP TRIM. I often get asked whether to implement a single HP TRIM dataset across the whole enterprise, or create multiple datasets at a departmental level. My answer is "it depends". As a document and records...
By Urs Raas After I talked about storing records in boxes on shelves I had a lot of questions from my colleagues in HP why our customers wouldn’t just scan all of their records and throw away the paper? Aside from the fact that some of the records may not be in a format that can be scanned, such as prototype...