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Do you need a rationale for why records management is essential to day-to-day, as well as overall, business operations? Records management and information governance professionals often have to justify to the C-suite and the larger organization why their programs are indispensable. One way to do this is by demonstrating that your organization's information assets - the data and records that are integral to everything your organization does - are directly tied to both business

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

The Mile High ARMA chapter has a great line up for this year's annual Spring Seminar this coming Tuesday in Denver! Last chance to register is today to hear these experts present on issues in the records management and information governance field. Further information can be found here: https://armadenver.org/meetinginfo.php?id=31&ts=1554946115 Location: PPA Event Center 2105 Decatur Street Denver, CO 80211 #RecordsRetention #MileHighDenverARMA #Denver #DenverARMA #complian

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

An information governance program enables an organization to mitigate risk, achieve business objectives, comply with regulatory requirements, and reduce costs associated with regulatory penalties, storage and lost productivity. A key step to effectively governing your information assets such as contracts, investor contact information, customer credit card information, and employee benefit records is to establish policies and guidelines that clearly define for employees how to

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