Microfilm is a wonderfully reliable medium. Unlike many other types of physical documents, it doesn’t rapidly deteriorate, and it takes up less space. Despite its benefits, however, microfilm is still a physical document. It takes up expensive space, is susceptible to sudden destruction and isn’t easy to manage. Digital documents on the other hand, are highly secure, adaptable, mobile and take up no additional space per document. That’s why you are starting a microfilm conversion process.

Managing your records isn't as simple as placing them in a file folder. More documents have been created this millennium than all of human history combined. Your company has been a part of this massive influx of new data. In order to keep up with this, you must constantly work to enhance your records management. One of the best ways to do this is to find out what records management trends will be followed each year. Let's take a look at what is in store for 2016.

No matter how well your mid-sized business is doing, you aren't running your company to maintain the status quo. You want to find ways to grow your company so that you can deliver better products and services, and ultimately make more profits.

When it's time for you to get rid of sensitive data, you must take extra care to make sure it is completely destroyed. When you delete a digital file off of your computer, it has not been completely destroyed. Instead, it has just been removed from your sight. Someone skilled enough with computer technology could still recover that file. To prevent this from happening, be sure to use total digital destruction methods to get rid of unwanted files that contain sensitive data.

One of the biggest challenges that businesses will face in the near future is protecting data from theft. With a myriad of data thieves constantly developing sophisticated new ways to steal digital data, it has become apparent that organizations cannot protect valuable data on their own. To support you in the fight against data theft, governments have been establishing compliance laws designed to make it harder for a data thief to steal anything.

Going green can help protect the environment, boost your brand and save you money. However, just starting to think about how your business can go green can be daunting. With huge companies like Google spending billions on green initiatives, it can seem as though going green is well out of your reach. Fortunately, going green doesn't require an unlimited budget. Let's take a look at how your business can go green on a budget:

The average employee wastes over three weeks per year while they are on the job. This means that if you pay an employee $100,000 per year, then you are wasting nearly $6,000 annually – on just that one employee. Much of this waste comes from tasks that hinder your employee productivity, so you can save by cutting the fat out of a person's daily routines at your company.

The average worker generates about 10,000 documents per year, so as a professional, you have to manage a lot of documents. The key to doing this effectively is to use the best tools and systems that are available to you. To this end, one of the best steps that you can take is to invest in a cloud document management system. Here is why:

Protecting the privacy and security of health information requires more than a lock and a key. In order to keep your patients' records secured, you must take advantage of the benefits of digital record keeping.

Emails have already become a primary element of business operations in nearly every industry. Keeping up with all of these correspondences has become a document management issue that must be handled before it gets too cumbersome to organize. You may be considering implementing an email retention policy to store necessary emails while deleting unnecessary ones to save storage space improve access to the emails you really need. In this blog, we’ll take a look at what an email retention policy entails.