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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.

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1. Peter Burris summarizes how Email archiving is moving from the server room to the court room to the board room (5:47)

   

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2. The Wikibon community's vision of the development of Active Archives. (4:41)

   

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Wikitip Re-visit retention policies periodically Organizations must periodically revisit retention policies to ensure they align not only with regulatory edicts but also business imperatives. Where legacy policies are outdated and inadequate, leaders must attack the problem head on by organizing cross-functional teams involving records management, legal, IT, business units and auditing to perform a risk/reward analysis and set cogent policies based on ever-changing business requirements. View Another Wikitip Browse all Information Management Wikitips
Featured Case Study Retail Giant Tackles Email Archive CS5 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. read more...	Information Management Professional Alerts Browse all IM Professional Alerts
Featured How-to Note	Implementing an Email Archive Ninety 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. read more...

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Featured Case Study

Retail Giant Tackles Email Archive

CS5 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.

read more...

Featured How-to Note

Implementing an Email Archive

Ninety 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.

read more...