Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

This week we had our regular EDRMS (Electronic Document and Records Management System) implementers’ group meeting. The meeting’s topic was managing information in cloud systems. A great thing about this group is the wide range of expertise in the room: today there were records and information managers, information specialists, operations directors and business analysts among the […]

This week we had our regular EDRMS implementers group meeting. As usual, a great group of people turned up from a wide range of organisations. Everyone is at various stages of implementing an EDRMS/ECM system, and many are responsible for a broader range of information management systems. A general theme in the group is a shift away from […]

Today we had our regular meeting of the EDRMS Implementers Group and the topic for discussion was social media information management. Managing social media information for all the lovely NSW government records and information managers assembled today is a challenge. With social media information there is a lot of it, most of it is low […]

The following guest post has been written by Janet Villata from Austrade. It summarises the excellent presentation she gave in May at the State Records EDRMS Implementers Group meeting. Janet’s Information Practice and Governance team at Austrade has recently been involved in assessments of the recordkeeping functionality of SharePoint 2013 out of the box (OOTB). […]

At our most recent EDRMS Implementer’s Group meeting, we discussed digital disposal. Specifically we discussed: are organisations using disposal authorities to sentence, retain or destroy digital information? are there drivers for or barriers to digital disposal? what are some main issues that might be impeding the implementation of digital disposal? Lots and lots of interesting […]

The Gartner Magic Quadrant assessment for Enterprise Content Management from September 2013 is really interesting (and thanks to Don Leuders for the reference). In these Magic Quadrant assessments, Gartner looks at all the dozens of tools operating in the ECM space and determines whether they are leaders, challengers, visionaries or niche players. They define ECM […]

  Our wonderful EDRMS implementers group met again recently and they are such an inspiring bunch of people, doing great and challenging things across NSW government to manage core government business information. At our meeting this time we focussed on planning for system implementation. Our focus was on EDRMS implementation but really, the lessons learned […]

Last week the members of the EDRMS Implementers Discussion Group met to talk about administrative change. Many of the members work in large government agencies subject to regular administrative change – functions coming and going, agencies being merged into single organisations and then separated again etc. These types of changes will have an impact on […]

HP announced yesterday that in September it will release its new HP Records Manager 8.0 product. This product represents a merger of HP’s three existing records management products: HP TRIM Autonomy Records Manager and Meridio Records Manager. photo by: IntelFreePress

Last week the EDRMS Implementers Discussion Group met again to talk further about the challenges and opportunities presented by the move to digital recordkeeping. The lively discussion ranged across the impacts of administrative change, the difficulty of influencing and changing user behaviours and dealing with legacy shared drives. One of the most interesting points raised […]