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News, tips, and advice from your information management experts

Are you in control of your business files? (Take this Quiz to find out)

Just because you have control doesn’t mean you’re in control. Ask yourself these six questions to find out if your’re in total control of your important business records and files.
Taking Control of Your Business Files

Taking Control of Your Business Files

Did you pass the quiz? If you answered “yes” to all six quiz questions, then you’re in total control of your files, your business, and your risk exposure. Well done—keep it up! Fewer than six “yes” answers? Then it’s time to review your records management practices. Whether they need a few tweaks or a total […]
In the Age of the Cloud, Records Management Still Matters

In the Age of the Cloud, Records Management Still Matters

Businesses are embracing cloud storage solutions at an increasingly rapid pace. Hard to blame them, considering all the benefits: security, cost and time savings, scalability, and disaster recovery, to name just four.
Organizational Tools for Records Managers (& Everyone Else)

Organizational Tools for Records Managers (& Everyone Else)

Whether your job is keeping tabs on every file and folder, or you are a fan of a tightly organized ship, here are Corodata’s picks for what well-run businesses need for proper records management. First, the basics These are the fundamental requirements for order and keeping clutter to a minimum.

The Perils of Stan (who’s not a self-storage fan)

Sue, the Office Hero

Records Management Resolution Idea for 2012: Defeat the Status Quo

Doing what “we have always done” is often a very safe bet – until it is too late. No organization can afford to ignore innovation, customer trends, competitive pressures, the voters or shareholders, or the “boss.” Eventually we are all held accountable for the decisions and changes we make or don’t make. In our personal […]

Sally, The New Girl

10 Must-Ask Questions For Healthcare

Hurricane Katrina changed the thinking of many medical offices and healthcare facility’s about Record Storage needs. According to the American Health Information Management Association, there are certain medical Record Storage issues that healthcare organizations should take into account to secure paper-based and digital data records:

Weighing the Pros and Cons of Record Storage at a Self Storage/Warehouse

What is renting a storage unit? A self-storage facility or renting some space in a warehouse is an option that some businesses choose. Beware of the false sense of security of the “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” approach. Just because you have removed all those boxes from daily view does not mean they are […]