November 17th 
Comments Identity theft, data breaches, and information security failures have become part of the new vocabulary of modern business. When a company fails to preserve confidential customer information, or allows its competitive secrets to become compromised, that company’s reputation and profitability are greatly damaged. While computer hackers, massive scale data theft, and other “high-tech” types of data breaches tend to get big publicity, one of the leading culprits in data breaches is much older and simpler: paper.
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Digital Conversion of Your Family Heritage
How many of you have old family photos and artifacts that date back over 100 years? How many have invaluable documents, journals, family crests, even recipes handwritten by your great grandmother? Almost all of us have inherited artifacts, mementos and photographs of our family. It’s a great way to pass along and share family heritage and traditions. But often times these photos and documents end up damaged or altered by sun, water or simple wear over time or even lost or misplace.
What if there was a better way to save these memories for future generations?
The Path to Digital Document Management and Archiving: Q&A With Michael Sutton
Michael Sutton
Think back to 1996: The Internet had not yet reached critical mass and organizations were just beginning to experience the flood of email.
When document management and archiving expert Michael JD Sutton, PhD, published “Document Management for the Enterprise: Principles, Techniques and Applications” that year, he forecast the need for knowledge workers to solve this evolving corporate challenge. 15 years later, the volume of documents, images and emails has grown substantially.
We sat down with Sutton to find out how far digital document management and archiving has come since then.