Guest Column: The Benefits Of Email Records Management

By Dave Hunt, CEO of C2C Systems

Creating an email records management system from scratch is not an easy proposition. However, the complexity is magnified when you are faced with the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), industry and state-specific regulations, and also the increasing volumes of data arriving every day.

No heavy user of email can possibly keep up with the management of their mailbox and folders, not without wasting valuable working hours at least. It is doubtful that even a medium user can maintain their load. The volumes are too great and the need to retain certain email is high.

In the last couple of years we have seen a rise in the interest of email retention management, often call email records management. In the past records management was usually applied to document created within an organization and stored on paper or electronically. The volume of electronic records was relatively low in most companies.