Information Management Journal articles from March 2006

Information Management Journal archives from March 2006

Study: CFOs must find balance.
March 1, 2006... A recent global study reveals that chief financial officers (CFOs) are too bogged down with profits reports and compliance work to focus on expanding their companies or driving shareholder value. The study of 900 senior financial executives...

More companies backing up data, Gartner says.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... According to Gartner, recent natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, have spurred an increasing number of North American companies to replicate or back up their data. According to a recent Gartner survey of 104 North American IT...

World companies cautious on IT spending.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... After a period of cost-cutting and reactive spending, organizations with more than $1 billion in revenue will be cautious when making their IT spending decisions in 2006, according to Gartner Consulting's Worldwide IT Benchmark Service....

Corporate criminals strike out in 2005.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's official: 2005 was a bad year for white-collar criminals. It was the year courts decided to make an example of top executives with long sentences and steep fines. Consider the fates of convicted corporate...

Offices using less paper.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... Predictions of a paperless workplace have been around for decades. A Business Week article, "The Office of the Future" once famously predicted that by 1990 "most record-handling will be electronic." But now, thanks to new technology and a...

Wireless will outpace wireline in 2006.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For the first time, U.S. businesses of all sizes will spend more on wireless voice services than on wireline in 2006, according to In-Stat. Wireless data services will make significant gains this year as well as over...

FTC: consumers receiving less spam.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... Technological anti-spam advances, together with enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act, have reduced the amount of spam reaching consumer inboxes, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In a report to Congress, "Effectiveness and...

Bush approves increased NARA budget.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) received a raise of sorts this year from Congress and President George W. Bush. The president recently signed a measure granting a fiscal year 2006 budget of $338 million for NARA--bout...

If you can't beat Google, join it.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... While some publishers are suing search engine Google for creating a digital library for consumers to peruse online, HarperCollins Publishers announced recently it would create its own. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While the publisher is not...

Mobile phone tracking scrutinized.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... Nearly 200 million Americans have cell phones, but many of them are not aware that wireless technology companies, as well as the U.S. government, track their movements through signals emitted by their handsets. Cellular providers,...

HHS assists Katrina E-records recovery.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... Hurricane Katrina destroyed a large number of paper medical records maintained by physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities in the Gulf Coast region. Providers and payers that used electronic medical records,...

SEC moving beyond EDGAR.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked software vendors to join it in a major push to give investors online access to mutual fund and corporate information. The request came in the form of a draft...

Court documents go digital.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... The U.S. District Court of the Western District of Tennessee has gone digital. West Tennesseans--and anyone else interested--now can access federal court documents with a mouse click. The Electronic Case Filing system, a new electronic...

Executive order may speed FOIA compliance.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... Lawmakers and the media have long complained about the inordinate amount of time--sometimes weeks or even months--it takes for government agencies to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disclosure requests. They can only hope that a...

NARA, NCH search for missing records.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Coalition for History (NCH) have joined to create a pilot project that will authorize the NCH to search auction and sales websites, listings, and catalogs to identify...

Compromise on controversial law.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... Late last year, renewal of the controversial USA PATRIOT Act was stalled when four Republican senators joined Democrats in a filibuster that blocked the revised bill and called for civil liberties protections. Because of the deadlock,...

Google Earth scares governments.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Google Earth, free software that combines satellite and aerial images with mapping capabilities, allows a web user to see high-resolution flyover images of Big Ben, the Egyptian pyramids, and the Taj Mahal from any...

Recycling tech trash.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... U.S. government estimates show that 133,000 electronic devices are tossed aside each day--meaning about 3 million tons of "e-junk" is thrown away each year. That's a lot of trash, most of which is toxic and, when carelessly tossed in...

Survey: e-mail hampers productivity.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... Businesses that want more productive employees should improve their e-mail systems. According to a recent survey of 2,400 employed U.S. adults conducted by Harris Interactive, 59 percent of those who use e-mail at work admitted to wasting...

Accutrac and 3M announce RFID solutions.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
March 1, 2006... Accutrac Software Inc. and 3M have announced a new line of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology records management solutions. The solution combines Accu-trac's professional services, records management software, and RadioLink[TM]...

OPEX[R] Incoming and Scanning releases upgraded document imaging solution.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
March 1, 2006... OPEX[R] Incoming and Scanning, a division of OPEX[R] Corporation, has released the next version of its document imaging system, the AS3690. The AS3690 is available as either a standalone device (AS3690t) or integrated with an OPEX Rapid...

File notes organizer eases document management.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
March 1, 2006... AtLast! Solutions has released File Notes Organizer 3.5, a program for the Windows operating system that makes it easy to organize customer and project files and records on network desktops using its Windows Explorer-like interface enhanced...

Paradigm introduces new scanner.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
March 1, 2006... Paradigm Imaging Group has introduced the EIS Ultima II, a single-footprint, large format, color, multi-function, scan, copy, and print system designed for a broad range of applications. The new EIS Ultima II has an integrated Canon...

Software monitors temps to protect storage.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
March 1, 2006... AVTECH Software introduces a new rack-mount model of TemPageR, a hardware/software solution for remote monitoring of temperature conditions in a rack cabinet, computer room, data center, operating room, laboratory, or other facility. The new...

New storage blade reduces points of failure.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
March 1, 2006... ACT/Technico now offers a removable network attached storage (NAS) module at the board level. The hot-swappable 6U, single-slot RAIDStor with removable storage is created for a variety of embedded applications requiring highly available and...

It's all in the technique! Using project management tools and principles can help RIM professionals succeed in efforts to create or improve their companies' records management programs.
March 1, 2006... As organizations increasingly focus on establishing or maturing their records management program, managers are experiencing a range of challenges--from defining and beginning the program to managing the complex involvement of many different...

7 paths to developing or sustaining RIM programs.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite the fact that archives, records, and information management programs, in various forms, have been around for a long time, there has been little systematically gathered information published about why...

RIM professionalism in a political arena: local government offers unique challenges for the records manager in public service. Taking a proactive approach to enhancing customer service will pay dividends.(Industry Focus)
March 1, 2006... According to the U.S. Department of Interior, there are 3,141 counties / boroughs/parishes / independent cities in the United States. That suggests that there are more than 10,000 county-level offices. For those interested in local government...

Technical certification for the information professional: the CDIA+: for those RIM professionals seeking additional credibility in the digital domain, earning the CDIA+ certification may be the best approach.(CareerPath)
March 1, 2006... Records and information management (RIM) professionals have had an uphill fight against those who view records managers as relegated to the paper records domain. In a recent interview, one records manager met with a chief executive officer...

Perspectives in archival Science.
March 1, 2006... TITLE: Archives: Recordkeeping in Society EDITORS: Sue McKernmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed, and Frank Upward ISBN: 1-876938-84-6 PUBLISHER: Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, PUBLICATION DATE: 2005...

Finding a hat that fits: RIM professionals have many to choose from.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editors)
March 1, 2006... It comes as no surprise to most records and information management (RIM) professionals that their profession--in this digital age--requires the donning of many hats. Today's RIM professionals must be knowledgeable and able to speak...

EU passes far-reaching data-retention law.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
March 1, 2006... European Union (EU) lawmakers recently passed new data-retention rules that will require telecom companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) to keep call and web data for up to two years. Members of the European Parliament (MEP), the...

SEC will punish companies, not shareholders: the more a company benefits from accounting fraud, the bigger the financial penalty will be.(ON THE EDGE: The Use & Misuse of Information)
March 1, 2006... In early January, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) new chairman, Christopher Cox, announced guidelines for penalizing companies that engage in accounting fraud--an issue that has angered corporate executives and divided the SEC's...