Welcome to Wikibon's Information Management (IM) Portal. The IM Portal is a resource for IT professionals interested in leveraging information to increase organizational value, while at the same time managing information risk. We welcome you to join Wikibon, browse the portal and participate. You can write a Wikitip, Ask a Question or attend a Peer Incite Research Meeting.
Check out these IM Peer Incite Podcasts:
1. Peter Burris summarizes how Email archiving is moving from the server room to the court room to the board room (5:47)
2. The Wikibon community's vision of the development of Active Archives. (4:41)
WikitipLegal requirements should drive email archiving initiativesIt is a cost of business to ensure that all emails are captured, and that the legal department knows the full story, warts and all. It must be assumed that opposing legal counsels will know everything about email systems and will exploit any weakness mercilessly. The business must ensure that they clearly specify the business requirements for email archiving, including the requirements for provenance, permanence, and comprehensiveness. Otherwise any supposed legal umbrella will be illusory. |
Featured Case StudyRetail Giant Tackles Email ArchiveCS5 is retail organization with over 250,000 employees. The Exchange email system has about 75,000 seats and about 500,000 messages every day. In retail, margins are thin and CS5's strategy is to focus the Email archive only on the most important senior managers while aggressively deleting emails of other employees after a short period of time. |
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Featured How-to Note |
Implementing an Email ArchiveNinety percent of business communication is done by email, instant messaging (IM) and voicemail, all of which are electronically stored. The main body of evidence that put Arthur Anderson out of business in 2002, after 89 years, came from email. Citigroup paid $400 million in fines after Elliot Spitzer subpoenaed emails written by stock analyst Jack Grubman. |