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Jeanne and Jessica from our iGMapware team are excited to present at Madison ARMA's full day workshop Digital Lifecycle Management - Practical Tools and Rules on Thursday, May 9 at the Fluno Center on the UW-Madison Campus. We'll be discussing proven methodologies for mapping data and records to business processes / operations. Come check out our workshop - we'd love to see you there! Our iGMapware software solution is designed to help organizations create an inventory of the

According to the Pew Research Institute, Americans have expressed a "deep lack of faith" in organizations when it comes to protecting consumer privacy information such as social security numbers, home addresses and credit card numbers. With data loss incidents and security breaches doubling in the last two years, people aren't wrong to distrust that the companies who collect and store their privacy information can do so securely. Organizations also have reasons other than rap

At iGMapware we've got new functionality for our information governance solution that we're excited to share at the conference. Our software solution is designed to help organizations create an inventory of their information assets, with a retention schedule that enables regulatory compliance and defensible disposition of records. Come check out our booth at InfoGovCon - we'd love to see you there and share our updates! InfoGovCon is in Providence on September 26 - 27, 2018 a

Now, more than ever, it's important to add information to your organization's portfolio of assets. And more importantly, to manage your information like any other asset. Why now? According to IBM Marketing Cloud's recent report, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data (roughly 2,500,000 terabytes) are generated every day, and 90% of existing data was created in the last few years. These are staggering statistics - and they bring up a host of obstacles and issues for companies to tackle

Addressing information risk in the digital age is complex. Records can be kept almost anywhere - employees may be storing important data on flash drives and personal devices, uploading to cloud storage sites or other digital repositories, or emailing it to their personal accounts to work on from home. Your organization most likely stores records in a multitude of formats - maybe older data on microfiche, paper copies in various locations, and electronic data on everything fro

Many US companies are anxiously getting ready for May 25, when the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable. GDPR is a regulation within EU law centered on data protection and privacy that addresses the export of personal data outside of the EU. GDPR regulates the use of personal data of natural persons who reside in the EU by any organization around the world. US companies processing data of EU residents need to comply, or face heavy fin

In early 2018, we merged iGMapware and IMS, Information Management Specialists Inc., to combine our information governance, retention schedule and records management consulting expertise with our software development capabilities. This alignment provides our customers with a holistic, yet incremental approach to retention schedule consulting, document retention software, and information governance. We bring over 40 years of information governance experience to each consulting