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We are pleased to announce that ZL Technologies will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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WHAT WE DO

Founded in 1999, ZL Technologies has proven itself as the specialized provider of electronic content archiving software for the most demanding large enterprise environments. The award-winning ZL Unified Archive® addresses E-Discovery, compliance, records management and storage optimization.

Built upon the industry’s most scalable platform, ZL offers today’s leading organizations the ability to comprehensively manage the entirety of their digital assets. To accomplish this challenge, ZL engineered a number of complex technologies into one seamless solution in order to manage billions of documents from a consolidated point of control. For more information on what differentiates ZL’s product, see ZL Advantage.

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A First Name Basis

April 3rd, 2012

By Linda Sharp, ESQ., MBA

The recent case of Jacob v. Duane Reade, Inc. highlights one of the major issues facing companies that must review million of documents for a court case—making sure documents that fall under “attorney-client” privilege are not produced. In this case, assistant store managers at Duane Reade (a New York-based pharmacy) were pursuing a collective action against the store for overtime wages. During the case, Duane Reade inadvertently produced a privileged, two-paged email during its review process. Magistrate Judge Katz of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that this document could not be clawed back due to the request for claw back not being produced in a timely manner. Read more . . .

Football, Email, and a Critical Discovery

March 22nd, 2012

If you’re a sports fan, or if you’re surrounded by any at work, or if you read/watch/listen to the news, you’ve probably heard that NFL New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton was suspended yesterday, without pay, in the heat of scandal. The purported wrong-doing involved bonus payments to Saints for injuring opposing players and knocking them out of the game. This “bounty,” as it is being gleefully referred to in the press, targeted specific high-profile players to attack. Read more . . .

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Awards & Certifications

The Stevie Awards 2012 – Customer Service

KMWorld 2012 – 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management

KMWorld 2010: Promise and Reality Award Finalist

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We are pleased to announce that Zasio will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Records & Document Management Experts

Zasio Enterprises, Inc. has become the standard by which other records management software and consulting companies are measured. The firm was founded in 1987 by Mr. Kevin Zasio. The company was originally based in San Jose, California, but it relocated its corporate operations to Boise, Idaho in 1993.

The firm was founded based on one vision—to provide organizations in both the public and private sector with an affordable computer software solution to enable them to establish total life-cycle management and control over their records throughout the organization.

This vision was realized by the introduction of Versatile Enterprise, the company’s flagship product. This product literally made records management history during the 1990’s, because it was the world’s first records management software system to incorporate functionality for the management of both active and inactive records into a single system. This capability met with strong market acceptance—today Versatile Enterprise is installed in hundreds of organizations throughout North America and in numerous other countries.
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Versatile Software Support

Data is the lifeblood of business—it simply must be protected and accessible at all times. While success starts with a well-implemented solution, it’s the ongoing support and management that make the difference every day. Zasio brings proven experience in both records management and in technical support.

Zasio’s software support and services have a proven track record of providing our customers with the help they need in planning and implementing their Versatile records management solutions.

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Consulting

David O. Stephens

He has over thirty years of experience in the field and has developed or improved records management programs for more than two hundred corporations and government agencies throughout the United States.

He is a leading authority on the international aspects of records management and has lectured or consulted in some twenty countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the South Pacific. Read more . . .

www.zasio.com

We are pleased to announce that Viewpointe will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Industry Innovator

Since 2006, Viewpointe has been named to the prestigious FinTech 100 surveys, representing the best of the best in financial technology and service providers. Bank Technology News named Viewpointe one of the top innovators of 2008, an annual ranking of the 25 most advanced people, companies and technologies in financial services.

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Education & Resources

Viewpointe’s training classes and publications cover the full spectrum of payments topics to keep industry players informed. In addition, we share our experts’ latest thinking in the Trend Center, where you’ll find downloadable white papers and news articles on digital storage and data management.

Payments Publications

Order payments publications, AAP test preparation materials and NACHA rules online. Viewpointe Association members receive discounted pricing.
Viewpointe Publications

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Meet the Management Team

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Twitter: @Stored_IQ

We are pleased to announce that StoredIQ will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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StoredIQ is a leading provider of actionable information governance solutions, enabling organizations to gain visibility and control over business-critical information to meet their compliance, records management and legal discovery requirements.

The StoredIQ Story

When StoredIQ was founded in 2001, the size of the digital universe was 6,500 petabytes. Back then, our mission was to help companies understand their digital content, and help them turn data into information they could use and act on.

This year, the digital universe is expected to reach 1.2 million petabytes, and it’s growing by tenfold every year. Every year! To give you some perspective, that’s 7.6 million Libraries of Congress.

Unfortunately, this need to understand what information exists, and manage it, has also grown exponentially. Whether required for legal eDiscovery, compliance mandates, internal governance, or government regulation, fundamentally, this mountain of murky data now represents enormous risk and cost to a company. Read more . . .

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StoredIQ Partners With NewsGator to Bring Information Governance to Social Computing

April 5th, 2012

Today we want to introduce you to an exciting new StoredIQ partner, NewsGator, a social site provider for Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. As enterprise knowledge continues to grow in size and complexity, organizations need solutions that intelligently identify risk and govern information—especially social business content. The aim of our partnership is to confront this growing challenge so that companies can adhere to policies, regulations and litigation demands while collaborating effectively. Read more . . .

10 Signs You Might be an eHoarder

March 30th, 2012

We admit it. We love watching TV shows about hoarding. It’s fascinating to see people who live with boxes stacked to the ceiling and feral dogs and cats running around freely. But, is this same thing happening in our datacenters? Can data hoarding be a problem too? In this age of the explosion of data, is there such thing as too much data?

In a recent Network World article, Warning you may be an eHoarder, Jeff Vance discusses the growing problem with “eHoarding” and also gives the following 10 signs that you might be an eHoarder:

1. You can’t locate the delete key on your keyboard.

2. You save every single version and variation of any document you ever create because you never know when that one turn of phrase or clever analogy you cut out might be useful somewhere else. Read more . . .

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Twitter: @RSDig

We are pleased to announce that RSD will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Founded in 1973 in Geneva, with offices in New York, London, Paris, Boston, Zurich and Madrid, RSD is the leading provider of information governance (IG) solutions for the enterprise. RSD products help companies reduce operating costs and risk exposure through robust information governance programs that span multiple jurisdictions and decades-long lifecycles.

RSD solutions for information governance, output management, and document archiving and retrieval support millions of users worldwide. Our products and services are offered around the globe – both directly and through strategic business partners.

RSD Vision

We are witnessing an information governance challenge of extraordinary proportion and importance. We see explosive growth in the creation and collection of documents and other rich content by both businesses and individuals. In parallel, we see more and more stringent regulatory requirements for audit and tracking, retention and disposal, and swift ad-hoc retrieval. Urgency is growing within the enterprise to gain control of this dynamic.

This information governance challenge – the enterprise rules and policies assuring effective information management, compliant with appropriate regulatory requirements – exceeds the sum of the document management, records management, document archive and retrieval, and content management challenges combined.

We believe that the globe’s most content-intensive businesses will adopt new technologies and business practices which will allow highly reliable, high performance access to the value contained in their business-critical documents, reports, and other rich content – wherever it is stored and at whatever point in the potentially decades-long document lifecycle.
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Twitter: @OpenText

We are pleased to announce that OpenText will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Latest Blog Articles

Posted on Apr 10, 2012 at 9:26 PM GMT by Tom Jenkins in Content Shift

Posted on Apr 05, 2012 at 3:15 PM GMT by John Price in Engage U.

The National Association of Broadcasters, NAB, is the largest digital media event in the world. Held annually, more than 90,000 media and business professionals from1,500 companies gather in Las Vegas. NAB’s theme for the show April 16 – 19 is The Great Content Shift, and its companion description:

Shift Happens

The great content shift – the demand for content anytime, anywhere – has set in motion a kaleidoscope of infinite consumption options with unlimited potential for businesses in the know, all enabled by . . . Read more »

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Twitter: @nextpage

We are pleased to announce that NextPage will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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NextPage Control

Ready to bring some much-needed structure to your organization’s unstructured information? Ready to save time and money by leveraging your existing information infrastructure? Ready to achieve a new level of SharePoint integration and management? Then you’re ready for proactive, in-place information governance with NextPage Control.

The NextPage Control platform follows every document as the document proliferates and migrates, allowing you to take control of all the unstructured, unmanaged, and de-centralized documents in your enterprise. Documents are classified from the moment they’re created, and they’re tracked from there throughout the entire information lifecycle. Since classification and tracking are accomplished in a natural way that’s tightly integrated with the way users normally create and save documents, none of your users have to change the way they work.

This management is accomplished through two key components:

1. The NextPage software agents that create the Digital Thread™ to make in-place governance possible.
2. The Governance Server that is the administrative console to manage users, policies, configurations, and reports.

NextPage Control is also designed to work in tandem with today’s most popular collaborative platforms, including Microsoft SharePoint.

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Twitter: @Integro

We are pleased to announce that Integro will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Why Work With Integro?

Experts in the Industry

As a leading expert in eDiscovery and email/records management technology solutions, Integro has designed and delivered hundreds of successful, high ROI solutions for customers. Integro is continually asked to speak at industry events and has been recognized with numerous awards for our solutions and customer service. Unlike other companies, Integro helps our customers from policy to technology. Our value is deeper than the technology; it’s the deep understanding of records, email, eDiscovery, content management and compliance.

Hundreds of companies trust Integro because of our proactive approach to managing email, records and enterprise content. Our resulting solutions directly impact the bottom line, drastically reducing eDiscovery and IT management costs, minimizing risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and boosting user productivity.

We do this with our own Software, our partners’ software and hardware, and the services of the best consultants in the industry. Our team’s knowledge and value span both technical and business aspects of information management, and especially email management.

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Resources

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Twitter: @IBM

We are pleased to announce that IBM will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Connect with Us

A Smarter Planet

Instrumented. Intelligent. Interconnected.

How we use data. How industries collaborate. How we make a smarter planet.

www.ibm.com

We are pleased to announce that HuronLegal will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

Visit our site: www.huronconsultinggroup.com

Huron Legal helps organizations plan and implement strategic records and information management initiatives. Huron’s approach is comprehensive in that we deliver solutions that take into consideration information governance, enabling technologies and business process improvements. Services include the design, development and implementation of all aspects of effective records and information management programs, including comprehensive assessments and gap analyses, development of records retention schedules and supporting policies and procedures, design and implementation of enabling technologies such as Enterprise Content Management and SharePoint solutions, and change management planning.

• Enterprise retention schedule development
• Records management gap analysis
• Needs assessments
• Strategic records and information planning
• Records management risk assessments
• Records management program development
• Records management program implementation support
• Taxonomy development
• Electronic records management planning
• Requirements analysis, including RFP development
• Electronic records management system design
• Email management
• System implementation support
• Records management training

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Professionals:

Laurie Fischer

April Dmytrenko

Shawn Christen

Kathy Adair

Sara Flanagan

Mary Jumatti

Marshall Rinek

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Twitter: @gimmalsoft | @IronMountain | Follow Iron Mountain on Facebook

We are pleased to announce that GimmalSoft & Iron Mountain will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

Visit our site: www.gimmalsoft.com/

Gimmal is a nationally recognized consulting, technology services and solutions company serving customers in industry and government. Gimmal collaborates as a trusted advisor to improve clients’ business performance and compliance at lower total costs. Gimmal delivers proven information, records and enterprise content management solutions built upon the industry’s leading technology platforms.

GimmalSoft was formed to allow Gimmal to leverage its deep domain experience in enterprise content and records management and SharePoint information governance implementation experience to its “built In” SharePoint 2010 Solutions. As a Microsoft ISV, GimmalSoft will be delivering compliance and governance solutions specifically for the SharePoint 2010 platform.

For more information, visit www.gimmal.com.

Demos and Presentations

Compliance Suite for Microsoft® SharePoint Product Overview

The GimmalSoft Compliance Suite for Microsoft SharePoint is the only product that extends SharePoint to create a DoD certified records management application while maintaining content in SharePoint. With the Compliance Suite, SharePoint is the only content repository you need to meet your organization’s records management requirements. The features of the Compliance Suite benefit both a records management team member with responsibility for defining and managing the records management policy and end users who are declaring and searching for records. View the presentation
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Meet the Leaadership Team

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@IronMountain | Follow Iron Mountain on Facebook

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We’re Iron Mountain, an Information Management Company

Iron Mountain is a world leader in information management services, assisting more than 140,000 organizations in 39 countries on five continents with storing, protecting and managing their information.

Publicly traded under NYSE symbol IRM, Iron Mountain is a S&P 500 company and a member of the Fortune 1000 (currently ranked: 643). Organizations in every major industry and of all sizes—including more than 97% of the Fortune 1000—rely on Iron Mountain as their information management partner.

We’re proud that our customers have put their trust with us. We safely store some of the world’s most valuable historical artifacts, cultural treasures, business documents and medical records. To properly protect and render this information, Iron Mountain employs almost 20,000 professionals and boasts an unrivaled infrastructure that includes more than 1,000 facilities, 10 data centers and 3,500 vehicles.
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“Garbage Data” is Big Data

Posted April 3, 2012

By Rachel Theran

Just last week the Obama Administration published a memorandum about Federal agencies adopting some best practices in IT.

When I read a little bit closer, a lot of it was focused on data retention.

While data retention isn’t the “sexiest” of topics these days, we can’t undermine the importance of tracking and storing our data, both for use today and in the future. Someone I once worked with said “data is expensive, space is cheap.” Getting trend data on human behavior is hard to do, and when we have large repositories of data we should make the most of them.

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Awards and Honors

• March 2012

  Iron Mountain named to FORTUNE’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” List for the eighth consecutive year

• November 2011

  Iron Mountain ranked as one of the most secure companies in the nation by Security Magazine

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Twitter: @EMCcorp

We are pleased to announce that EMC will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS). Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

Broad Range of Customers

We work with organizations around the world, in every industry, in the public and private sectors, and of every size, from startups to the Fortune Global 500. Our customers include global money center banks and other leading financial services firms, manufacturers, healthcare and life sciences organizations, Internet service and telecommunications providers, airlines and transportation companies, educational institutions, and public-sector agencies. EMC also provides technology, products, and services to consumers in more than 100 countries.

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EMC Executive Team

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Twitter: @contoural

We are pleased to announce that Contoural will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Contoural is a leading independent provider of business and technology consulting services focused on litigation readiness, compliance, information and records management, and data retention strategy. We sell no products nor take referral fees, offering our clients truly independent advice.

We believe that creating a consensus across our client’s organization is a cornerstone to an effective strategy. Our services encompass all electronically stored information (ESI) including e-mail as well as paper documents.

With an average of 14 years industry experience, our team is comprised of attorneys, former compliance officers, and records managers who have a deep understanding of legal, compliance and business requirements for retaining and managing information combined with seasoned IT professionals with expertise in archival, search, litigation management systems, data classification and storage focused on program execution.

Our clients include more than 20% of the Fortune 500, as well as many small and mid-sized industries across the U.S. with engagements throughout the world. Contoural’s dramatic growth is based on providing value to our clients; we have built a reputation for successful engagements.
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Articles and Blogs by Contoural

In-house counsel weaken argument to reform e-discovery
Inside Counsel Magazine
October 3, 2011 Column
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7 steps to modernize your records program
Inside Counsel Magazine
September 9, 2011 Column
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Top 10 ways companies waste money on discovery: Part 2
Inside Counsel Magazine
August 22, 2011 Column
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Meet the Management Team

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We are pleased to announce that Cohasset Associates, Inc. will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

Visit our site: www.cohasset.com

Cohasset Associates is one of the nation’s foremost consulting firms specializing in document-based information management.

Now in its fourth decade of serving clients throughout the United States, Cohasset Associates provides award-winning professional services in three areas:
management consulting, education and publishing.

Management Consulting

The focus of Cohasset Associates’ consulting practice is improving the programs, processes, and systems that manage document-based information. This ranges from establishing effective corporate records management programs to planning state-of-the-art electronic records systems.

Using its unique combination of records management, legal, and technical skill sets, together with its extensive problem-solving experience, Cohasset Associates works to provide its clients with cost-effective solutions that will achieve their business objectives and meet their legal/regulatory responsibilities.

With its resident legal expertise, Cohasset Associates provides clients with relevant information to assist in reducing the regulatory and legal risks associated with the management of document-based information. Read more . . .

Education

The quality of Cohasset Associates’ educational work is recognized internationally. The knowledge imparted by Cohasset Associates at more than 1,000 professional seminars and conferences has assisted tens of thousands in improving the management of their document-based information.

Today, Cohasset Associates’ educational work is centered on its annual National Conference for Managing Electronic Records (MER) that focuses on the operational, technical, and legal issues associated with managing the complete life cycle of electronic records.

Cohasset Associates also brings the MER Conference to your desktop in streaming video format with RIM On Demand, available at the RIM Education website. Read more . . .

White Papers: Free Download

2011/2012 Records Management & Governance of ESI Survey – Call for Action that Manifests Reasonableness & Good Faith

This is the seventh, bi-annual Cohasset/ARMA survey and white paper on Electronically Stored Information (ESI) practices.
The results of this survey clearly show:

• There are many problems,
• These problems create unacceptable business risks, and accordingly,
• There is a need for organizations to initiate prompt action.

Bottom line: This white paper is a “call-to-action” for both users and solution providers – as it details the need to improve how ESI is currently managed.
EMC Corporation is pleased to support the publication of this white paper and, through its support, facilitate three goals . . . Read more . . .

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Twitter: @AutonomyCorp

We are pleased to announce that Autonomy will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Autonomy, an HP company, is a market-leading software company that helps organizations all over the world understand the meaning in information. A pioneer in its industry, Autonomy’s unique meaning-based technology is able to make sense of and process unstructured, ‘human information,’ and draw real business value from that meaning.

Human information makes up the vast majority of content in the world today and exists almost everywhere: in documents, emails, pictures, audio, video, and mobile and social media communications. Unlike tagging or keyword solutions, Autonomy uses ground-breaking, pattern-matching technology to form an understanding of this data, allowing computers to capture the meaning held within 100 percent of information, including structured, ‘extreme,’ or ‘big data’ amassed in databases from call detail records, gene sequencing, sensors, algorithmic trading, click streams, and other sources. Autonomy software helps businesses and organizations reduce complexity and unlock the real value in data.

Autonomy provides meaning-based solutions that understand the full spectrum of enterprise information as well as the relationships that exist within it. By enabling computers to comprehend the ‘shades of grey’ in our world, rather than only the black and white found in databases, businesses can automate processes, comply with regulations, act in real time, and improve business outcomes.

Autonomy in the News

Advances in document management technology
InsideCounsel, 27th March, 2012

Real-time delays
Instant business data is of little use if we humans aren’t quick enough to act on it.
Dr Mike Lynch, CIO Magazine, 19th March, 2012

Autonomy founder’s new horizons in California
Maija Palmer, Financial Times, 4th March, 2012

We’re out of time
Technology has beaten us for speed, but humans still have creativity on their side.
Mike Lynch, CIO Magazine, 22nd February, 2012

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Twitter: @archivesystems

We are pleased to announce that Archive Systems will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

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Organizations in all industries are under increasing pressure to streamline paper processes and reduce costs, while maintaining or improving upon existing service levels. Archive Systems offers the solutions you need to achieve this. Breakthrough document and records processing benefits can be realized immediately, reliably and cost effectively.

Records Management

Archive Systems offers a full suite of Records Management services including everything from business records storage and document shredding to Web-based image hosting and document conversion. Read more . . .

Document Management

The shift to a paperless work environment should deliver results, not more infrastructure for you to install and maintain. Archive Systems enables you to instantly retrieve your documents from anywhere in the world using only a Web browser. Read more . . .

Industry Solutions

From the life sciences and government to legal and oil & gas, Archive Systems offers solutions that meet the needs of numerous industries. Read more . . .

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Records and Document Management Scoop

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Bringing it to the people . . .

In today’s fast paced, instant communication world it’s not often that a company invests in travel just for communication to its clients; but that’s just we did. Several of us took our products and message of “Changing the Way the World Manages Documents” on the road to meet and greet our clients. While the 3 city, 4 day travel schedule was grueling the breakfast meetings were very satisfying.
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Twitter: @AccessSciences

We are pleased to announce that Access Sciences will be exhibiting at the 2012 MER Conference.

Visit our site: www.accesssciences.com

Access Sciences Corporation is an information management, technology consulting, and outsourcing firm exclusively focused on helping our clients transform their information, knowledge, and technology into meaningful assets they can use.We plan, design, and implement solutions that:

• Increase productivity of employees, making it easier and quicker to find exactly the right information when it is needed
• Reduce operating costs associated with managing information assets and making critical decisions
• Manage risks associated with information lifecycles, regulatory compliance, findability, and discovery

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Many of our clients are reviewing how to better secure documents that may leave the confines of their technology infrastructure. While protecting paper that contains confidential information or Intellectual Property (IP) is almost impossible, there are several ways to protect electronic versions of those documents from being used outside the workplace. File encryption does solve this problem, but it does create issues when trying to share protected documents in an ECM system. Read more . . .

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www.accesssciences.com