Records Management Knowledge Center
Learn how to manage, organize, and store your critical data more efficiently.
Improving the accessibility and security of your data doesn't need to be difficult. Our knowledge base contains all the information you need to make informed decisions when its time to modernize your records management practices.
When it comes to federal regulations and data privacy laws, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) often flies under the radar. Yet, for businesses that handle financial records, compliance with this law is critically important. The goal of this article is to explain why, the negative implications of non-compliance, and how digitizing your financial records can help
Data security is a top priority for most businesses, and for good reason. From customer data to internal business documents, properly managing sensitive information is an important part of running a business. However, protecting records stored on paper presents a number of challenges. Paper documents can be easily lost, damaged, or misplaced, and controlling access
Documents often contain sensitive information, from personal data to financial details, that needs to be kept confidential. In many cases, though, these documents still need to be shared with others, whether it’s within a legal team, regulatory bodies, or even courts. Redaction helps protect privacy by removing or obscuring specific details that shouldn’t be disclosed
For many businesses, managing invoices can feel like an uphill battle. Paper invoices pile up on desks, while digital ones are lost in a sea of email threads. Keeping everything organized and efficient is no easy task, but invoice scanning can make it a whole lot easier. Invoice scanning is a straightforward yet effective way
Businesses accumulate mountains of paper documents as a part of their day to day operations. From contracts and receipts to employee records and tax documents, this paperwork is an unpleasant but unavoidable part of running a business. More often than not, these documents end up piled high in a back room somewhere or stuffed into
Scanning photos is a great way to preserve cherished memories and document family history. For many people, photo albums hold decades of captured moments, and gathering around them to relive these memories has long been a shared tradition. But as we all know, photographs don’t last forever. They fade, can be easily damaged by water
For most businesses, collecting and managing personal information is just part of the job. Customers often share their details and do so for a variety of reasons, trusting that this information will be kept private and managed responsibly. Yet, the rules around classifying this data can be complex, and it’s not always clear what type
For most of the twentieth century, microfiche and microfilm were the preferred methods used to store images, blueprints, schematics, maps, and other important documents for extended periods of time. At the peak of its popularity, there was no other format with the same versatility or longevity. Microform technology made it possible to reduce documents on
Once a ubiquitous solution for preserving important documents, microfilm was, at one time, the go-to storage medium for libraries, legal firms, healthcare institutions, and government agencies.
However, the scarcity of microfiche readers and scanners today can make accessing and using this data challenging.
When it comes to storing documents in a compact, durable format, microfiche and microfilm have been the go-to choice for records storage for decades. Government agencies, museums, and libraries have relied on these formats for years, using them to archive everything from historical documents to public records. It’s also not unusual for individuals to have