I was reading an article this morning on InsideCousel about Auto Classification of Records.  The main point of the article was that employees cannot keep up with the amount of electronic content created each year if they need to manually classifiy records.  While not perfect, auto classification may allow for "good enough" retention with little effort by employees for most organizations.

A colleague pointed me to a recent article from InformationWeek titled Content Chaos (Available here but registration is required).   The article is based on a survey of 425 business technology professionals in July 2011.  I found a couple of the survey results interesting.

I have referenced previous surveys from Global360 (Now an OpenText company) on how organizations are using SharePoint.  My last blog post on that topic can be found here.

The data from their most recent survey (September 2011) was recently published and presented at the SharePoint User Conference.

International Data Corporation (IDC) and Unisys have previously released a report on the Consumerization of IT based on surveys of IT Managers and information workers. 

Symantec, the vendor that helps organizations and consumers secure and manage their information, recently released a new report that shows some changes in the top items requested during eDiscovery. 

I came across a recent study by IBM Research that asks “Am I wasting my time organizing email? A study of email refinding”.  The study of 345 users was contrasting the results of finding emails later between 2 groups of users - those who spend considerable effort creating folder structures and filing emails and those who rely on the alternative methods of finding emails such as search and threading.

Iron Mountain released the results of a survey last week that had some interesting data points.  The survey was conducted earlier in the year and included responses from over 5,500 professionals in mid-sized companies in the UK.

It was my pleasure to attend the Managing Electronic Records (MER) conference this year. Access Sciences was one of 17 companies invited to exhibit.  In this blog posting, I will offer some perspectives and observations on what some of the best minds in records and information management focused on.