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Basic e-discovery practices are being avoided, study finds

By: Rafael Ruffolo On: 24 Sep 2009 For: ComputerWorld Canada Creator

A new report from global ECM community AIIM highlights the lack of electronic records management policies among most enterprises

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Electronic records still aren’t taken as seriously as paper-based records in most organizations, with many firms failing to grasp basic electronic records management concepts, according to a new AIIM report.

The non-profit association, which provides research and best practices targeted to enterprise content management users and vendors, found that electronic records were twice as likely to be unmanaged compared to paper records among survey respondents, with 26 per cent of companies indicating that no records management policies were applied to the bulk of their electronic data.

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Rafael Ruffolo joined ComputerWorld as a staff writer in June 2007 and was the winner of a Kenneth R. Wilson award for business journalism. He is interested in government IT, copyright, virt... more

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