By Jesse Lake, Senior Editor – ECOMPEX In Focus
Wednesday August 27, 2008
Unlike any other aspect of business, information management - the act of planning and managing every piece of an organization's captured information - is a complex and intricate element of every organizational process. From company records to the penciled notes of a janitor on a work ticket and to employees' work - and personal e-mail, that information must be managed from its inception to its final disposition.
As the trend of electronically stored information continues to grow exponentially, it is crucial for your organization’s information management techniques to grow along with it. If you fail to keep up with the new trends in electronic information management, your organization will be left behind the pack, struggling to locate and make sense of physically stored information. Converting to electronically stored information allows for the automation of your information management processes, freeing your organization to easily use data and information that will gain the most influence and leverage across your organization.
The concept of electronic information is just a little over a quarter of a century old, beginning with the introduction of word processing technology. Enterprise e-mail systems dramatically increased the volume of electronic information. In fact, this type of information comprises the fastest growth category of information today, primarily because the technology which generates this information proliferates – e.g., PCs, Blackberries, other multi-feature phones. The main challenges with this type of information is classifying it for ease of access, and extracting intelligence to facilitate your decision making.
One integrated set of tools now available to address enterprise electronic information asset challenges is ECOMPEX’s jDocXpt®. The strength and power of the jDocXpt® solution lies in the multiple technological tools which are modularly integrated to ensure a highly accurate and functionally robust system. jDocXpt® specializes in working with information of any type -- electronic or non-electronic, structured or unstructured. It automatically classifies information, generates metadata, extracts/redacts intelligence, facilitates administrative decision making, provides for concept search and retrieval, and much more. It will be these functions which will tip the balance of workflow processes from human-centric to machine-centric, allowing your organization to easily stay on top of its electronic information management.
For further information, contact ECOMPEX's Senior Editor, Jesse Lake at jesse.lake@ecompex.com.
Sources:
Where RM Should Report to Ensure Effective Electronic Records Management.
Information Management Journal, Mar/Apr 2008 by Choksy, Carol E B
