Interesting question. Seems to me that you'd have to run the test
multiple times, using a variety of ERM programs on a variety of
platforms with a variety of hardware configurations in order to get an
average. Or, if you want specific data, you'd have to clearly identify
those variables in the test in order to confine the test to that
specific technological environment. And if you went that way, would it
be a broad enough study to be useful to an array of consumers with
varying software/hardware/infrastructure configurations?
By the way - good to be back y'all. I've missed the list community
during my hiatus as I moved and changed jobs!
Best,
Julie
Julie J. Colgan
Director of Records Management
Nexsen Pruet LLC
803.253.8270 direct
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of J. Michael Pemberton
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:59 AM
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Subject: (Real) Research on Speed of Retrieval from Paper and E-files?
In teaching my RIM class last night, I told them that common sense would
suggest that finding and retrieving the same file from a computer-based
system should be faster than from a paper-based system. However, has
anyone actually tested that notion? I don't mean vendor studies which
always have their widget coming out No. 1 no matter what. I mean an
independent group, such a university research study or other--where the
method is squeaky clean. And the test conditions are non-biased.
Suppose there were 10,000 records in an open-shelf, color-coded system,
one where the person retrieving can actually see the needed file before
getting to its location. And that this person were positioned, say, 10
steps from the retrieval point. (After, the person doing the computer
retrieval is sitting at the retrieval point to search the same 10,000
records.) What does the person doing the computer retrieval have to
wade through--or sort--to get to the specific record, which is in a
file, in a database, etc. How long would that take? Would the computer
user have to turn his/her system on first?
Has anyone run across this kind of test?
Thanks,
Mike
J. Michael Pemberton, Ph.D., CRM, FAI, President Information Management
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