Colligo Blog: Bill England

This series of blog posts looks at seven best practices to consider when implementing email records management in your organization. It discusses various considerations for evaluating email records management strategies and the challenges to fully integrating email into a records management environment. In part five, we’ll look at best practice #7 regarding the benefits of metadata tagging and provide some concluding points for organizations to consider in their email management strategy.

This series of blog posts looks at seven best practices to consider when implementing email records management in your organization. It discusses various considerations for evaluating email records management strategies and the challenges to fully integrating email into a records management environment. In part four, we’ll discuss best practices #5 and #6 regarding leveraging your existing Microsoft investment and creating an effective process for email records management.

I recently had an excellent discussion with a Colligo client in the regional / municipal government sector that I thought would be of interest to the SharePoint community. As part of our deployment follow-up process with them, we discussed their SharePoint implementation as well as the strategies they had used to drive SharePoint adoption and engagement.

This series of blog posts looks at seven best practices to consider when implementing email records management in your organization. It discusses various considerations for evaluating email records management strategies and the challenges to fully integrating email into a records management environment. In part three, we’ll discuss best practices #3 and #4 regarding the pervasiveness… Continue reading »

This series of blog posts looks at seven best practices to consider when implementing email records management in your organization. It discusses various considerations for evaluating email records management strategies and the challenges to fully integrating email into a records management environment. In part two, we discuss two important best practices: understanding the scope of the problem and building a business case.

This series of blog posts looks at seven best practices to consider when implementing email records management in your organization. It discusses various considerations for evaluating email records management strategies and the challenges to fully integrating email into a records management environment. In part one, we discuss email in a records management context and some of the questions that need to be addressed for effective email records management.

Bill England discusses his observations at the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center in Manhattan with 20 CIOs from large New York law firms as well as a variety of Microsoft field and product experts discussing SharePoint as a legal DMS.

Congratulations to our friends at GimmalSoft – their GimmalSoft Compliance Suite is now DISA JITC certified for DoD 5015.2 compliance! Colligo’s email management solution for Outlook is integrated as part of the GimmalSoft Compliance Suite.

Bruce Miller of RIM Tech reviews the new GimmalSoft Compliance Suite for DoD 5015.2 compliance, which includes the Colligo Contributor Add-In for Outlook, and calls it a “market game changer.”

Over the past week, I’ve been working with a customer on a particularly interesting use case for SharePoint that I thought others in the SharePoint community might be interested in learning more about it. The customer is using Zantaz (from Autonomy/HP) for email archiving with a primary focus around eDiscovery, email retention and legal hold. A very cost effective option would be to use SharePoint and Exchange to provide the same functionality while leveraging their existing investment in the Microsoft stack.