Excellent article!  I've often wondered whether some of these RIM software developers have actually worked with a "real" records manager in developing their products?  Many of them--as the article suggests, are much too complicated  and are overkill for what most of us want to do.

Thanks.
Earl

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Records management vendors, this is your reality check

Talking to records managers always provides a much-needed reality check on the state of the field. While vendors are often galloping ahead of users with new software features, the discipline is still paper-based, manual and plodding. Most companies are far from cutting edge.

Alexander Campbell, a records manager at Cohen & Gresser, is a prime example of this situation <http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Records-management-strategy-still-in-infancy-in-many-enterprises>.
Campbell joined the New York law firm about a year ago, with the mandate to develop a records management strategy. At the time, the firm had only Excel files to track the physical records that the firm houses in the basement.


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