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New laws, regulations and standards have caused a sea change in the way records are managed. Courts, attorneys, and special interest groups have discovered that records are even more important than witnesses in determining “what did they know and when did they know itâ€. Records can help to prove innocence or lack of intent. In order to use them, it is important to make sure that the control, storage, and use of the record occurs in the normal course of business and to demonstrate that the records accurately reflected a particular state in time. Records can also prove to be a liability and poor record keeping can have serious consequences.
Traditional Records Management
Traditional records management systems are often disconnected and inconsistent with existing repositories. These may include document management, web content management, email, and imaging repositories. Information is “transferred†to the records management system for long-term storage and ultimately disposition. This legacy approach has a major impact in areas of:
- Lack of Adoption – too difficult to use for most users
- Inconsistent Adoption – across document, web content, email, images, and faxes,
- “Broken Records†– as information is transferred inconsistently or incompletely
- Inconsistent Information – inconsistencies between multiple repositories and records management
- Out-Of-Date Records – as information is not transferred in a timely manner
- Increased Cost – support multiple repositories
- Increased Exposure – to risk associated with audit, regulation and litigation
Alfresco Records Management
Alfresco offers one integrated repository to manage all formats of content across document management, web content management, email, and imaging repositories. The repository is a modern platform with:
- Certification to DOD 5015.2 Standard
- Drag-and-Drop Records Management Capture from Desktop Tools - Support for Microsoft® Office, Microsoft® Outlook and Open Office desktop tools though a standard Windows Explorer interface
- Automatic Metadata Extraction and Classification
- Complete auditing every user action
- Automatic Long-Term Archival Format Conversion – Automatic conversion from proprietary office formats to long-term vendor neutral formats such as Open Document Format (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Simple Export for Archival
- Zero Footprint on the client in both web and client server environments
- The industry’s most scalable, standards based content repository
- High-Availability, Fault Tolerance and Scalability – Any number of machines, auto failover and clustering
- Simple to install, use and rollout
User Functionality
Users get the functionality they expect from high-end Records Management tools as a simple and active set of services and functions. They have:
- Fileplans - Automatically classify and schedule records based upon pre-existing plans and standardized structures
- Record Types - Classify and schedule records based upon pre-existing types
- Automatic Record Numbering
- Retention and Archival Policies
- Disposition – Controlled and scheduled handling of archiving, holds, transfers, accessions, and destruction using disposal schedules
- Pre-population of Metadata – Impact management and automatic updates
- Reporting – Predefined reports and metadata type definitions to search and screen records due for handling and handling exceptional cases
- Searching and Screening - Search on all properties grouped by content, record, disposal and save searches for later use
- Rapid eDiscovery – Simply search across full-text content, fileplan structures, records management categories, and types
Benefits
This new and first Open Source Records Management platform delivers significant benefits in the areas of:
- Increased User Adoption – For all users across systems
- Reduced Cost – One repository, simple to install, use and rollout
- Reduced Time to Deployment – Zero footprint client
- Reduced Risk – Consistent records management for all information
- Reduced Time - Reduce delays for regulatory audits and compliance that are delayed by ineffective or limited records management
- Reduced Time – Reduce search and discovery time and cost for litigation support
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