As Tina Torres, Microsoft’s Corporate Records Manager , mentioned in her last post, the major challenges for records managers in the information age are: (1) keeping what you need to keep, and (2) avoiding the unnecessary retention of content that you...

As Jason and Ethan pointed out in their previous posts, the regulatory environment has increasingly required that companies prove that their business transactions meet the law. Sarbanes-Oxley, or “SOX” as it’s been called in the abbreviated version, has...

$2.8 Billion Dollars! No, I’m not quoting the Austin Power’s villain Dr. Evil… I’m sharing a pretty surprising figure: This is the 2007 projected budget for electronic discovery services within the US . You might think I’m joking, but this is real...

As Jason mentioned in his last post , several factors led Microsoft to invest in records management functionality for the 2007 release of Office. One factor was feedback we received from customers about our Information Rights Management features. But...

I thought it would be fun to share with you how Microsoft came to invest in records management functionality in the 2007 release of our products. I bet that many of you are saying, “It’s about time we got into records management!” and believe me, I’m...

Hello and welcome! Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read our thoughts about records management. This is a team blog, and over time we will have several writers and contributors, but we promise to leave the marketing folks at home. So...