In this podcast Forrester analyst Cheryl McKinnon comments on new developments in the market place around records management.

In the podcast Cheryl discusses:

• The call by the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for the technology industry to help develop automated solutions to records management.
• Innovations coming out of the eDiscovery space and the e-mail archiving space as vendors in both those markets seek to move into the information governance space
• The opportunities and challenges of applying tools/techniques such as predictive coding,  autoclassification and analytics to records management
• The impact of big data on retention policies

Cheryl McKinnon is Principal analyst for Forrester, specialising in records management, information governance, and eDiscovery

The conversation between Cheryl McKinnon and James Lappin took place on 26 September 2013.

The podcast is introduced by Heather Jack

This podcast is 30 minutes long.

Links

• Cheryl’s Forrester blog
• Cheryl’s blogpost  Is Skeuomorphism Holding Back The Evolution Of Records Management Technology?
• NARA’s blogpost reviewing their  ‘Grant challenge to industry’ event on September 10 2013
• NARA’s Ustream channel with videos of their ‘Grant challenge to industry’  event
• The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss

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