For a care home, keeping residents’ personal and medical information confidential is not only ethically right but also a requirement under law.  The Data Protection Act stipulates exactly what can and cannot be done with private data. A care home keeps a multitude of personal information, ranging from names, previous addresses, clients’ financial details [...]

  It’s January, a month for resolutions; a time for clearing out and storing away; a time for starting afresh. So, like many others, your employees have probably just finished last year’s archiving (or maybe last week’s or last month’s if you work for a very large organisation). If it’s a painful, arduous process, then [...]

  Hi, I’m Doc.  I’m a piece of paper.  Boy, I’ve had a hard day today.  Want to hear about it? It all started when I was abruptly seized – along with my neighbours – from out of the pristine ream I was languishing in.  We were unceremoniously fanned at both ends, then banged along [...]

  Large companies can have thousands, sometimes millions, of documents in use at any one time – and many times more than that in archive.  Their many departments, across several offices or branch locations, all use different documents in varying formats. Documents are a company’s assets; they are vital in informing the business decisions that [...]

DMS benefits break down into two main types; tangible and intangible. Tangible are those things that can be measured in the sense that the benefit can be quantified. Intangible are things that its going to be hard to measure and attribute to the use of a DMS, but are nevertheless known benefits.   Tangible benefits [...]

Organisations spend millions of pounds per anum on perimeter and infrastructure security. But it’s a well recognised fact that very little is spent on protecting document data and content from within. This is because traditionally the goal has been to keep out external threats such as hackers , criminals and outsiders focussed on gathering information [...]