For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals (Length: 13 pages)

July 17, 2007

Abysmal: The State Of Retention Management

Organizations Woefully Unprepared To Meet Today's Legal Requirements

by Barry Murphy

with Claire Schooley, Michael Rasmussen, Connie Moore, Diana Levitt


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

To understand how organizations retain information for legal, regulatory, and knowledge needs, Forrester interviewed information management and IT professionals from 25 different $1 billion-plus ($1B+) enterprises. We found that most are not ready to meet the requirements set forth in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). In fact, retention initiatives are scattered between different departments and managed in diverse technology silos like records management (RM) and message archiving. To solve these problems and clean up retention management practices, enterprises must deal with organizational challenges first; use technology point solutions to address burning pains, such as message archiving to ease discovery of emails; and slowly evolve retention management strategies across the full enterprise.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemEnterprises Increasingly Doubt Their Ability To Find And Produce Information

itemOrganizational Issues Are Often The Root Cause Of The Problem

itemImmature Technology Deployments Exacerbate The Pain

itemThe Problem Can Be Solved, But Change Will Come Slowly

itemStart By Addressing Organizational Issues While Using Point Solutions

itemEvolve Retention Programs To Address All Information Across The Enterprise

recommendations

itemBegin Closing The Gap Now — You Can't Afford To Wait

WHAT IT MEANS

itemThose Who Don't Take Action Will Pay — Both Now And Later

Forrester interviewed 25 user organizations. All wish to remain anonymous due to the very confidential nature of information retention programs.

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