Document and Records Management: The Right Prescription To Battle the Recession

A common theme of IT news recently is about how companies faced with the realities of the ongoing recession are turning to data management techniques to achieve efficiencies and cost savings.  The economy may be heading upwards, but many companies are still cautious and continue to see how they can improve their productivity.

For example, last [...]

Records Management: How do RM and DM differ?

There is a lot of confusion about what the differences are between Records Management and Document Management.
CMSWire recently summarized some of the differernces between the two types of systems:

Document Management
Records Management

Stored
Objects

A Document is stored information that contains structured and unstructured data.  Documents are often associated with metadata, a set of properties or attributes that further [...]

Document Management: A Top Priority for One Quarter of Financial Advisors

One quarter of financial advisors say that implementing a document management system is a top priority for them this year.  1000 independent brokers were asked to rank their priorities of CRM, document management, practice-management tools, financial planning tools, client self-service tools and compliance integration/simplification.

Here are the rankings for which technologies were considered ‘very important’:

38.7% said [...]