Records Management

How To Effectively Analyze Unstructured Data

Unstructured data analytics is a game-changer in today’s data-driven business environment. It’s all about turning chaos into clarity. Unstructured data, such as emails, social media posts, and documents, are gold mines of information. However, extracting valuable insights from this vast and varied data can be daunting. The key lies in understanding the patterns and trends hidden within this data. Understanding Unstructured Data: Characteristics and Challenges# Unstructured data refers to

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How To Ensure Data Integrity: 9 Proven Methods

Data integrity is the foundation of effective data management. It ensures that data remains accurate, consistent, and trustworthy throughout its lifecycle. Maintaining data integrity is essential for informed decision-making, regulatory compliance, and building trust with stakeholders. In this article, we’ll explore ten proven methods that organizations can implement to safeguard and enhance data integrity across their operations. Additionally, we also provide examples illustrating the importanc

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Mitigating Growing Data Volumes: The Past, Present, and Future of Discovery

Data is being created and stored at rapid rate. By 2025, the International Data Corporation (“IDC”) estimates worldwide data will reach 181 zettabytes, representing a compound annual growth rate of 23% over the 2021-2025 period. The IDC also estimates a 19.2% CAGR in worldwide storage capacity over the same period, growing to above 16ZB. For organizations, such dramatic growth of stored

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Rational Insights: Discovering Secret Service Text Messages

Earlier this summer, we learned that the January 6th Select Committee sought to obtain Secret Service text messages on or relating to the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, only to be informed that any text messages from that timeframe were deleted across the agency. With this news, the gears in the minds of all of us in the eDiscovery world began turning, as we know there’s more than one way to recover a deleted text message. So, why aren’t common text message recovery methods a

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Preventing ROT Data Accumulation with In-Place Data Governance

Data never stops accumulating, which means that proactive measures are required to stay on top of data growth, even if you’ve just completed a ROT data cleanup. Investing in enterprise governance technology can supercharge your organization’s ability to preventing future ROT data accumulation. Information Governance platforms that empower organizations to manage data in place are especially well suited for this challenge. In-place data governance refers to analyzing, classifying, and governin

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Using Technology to Identify and Delete ROT Data

In last week’s article, we discussed some of the potential risks in failing to proactively manage ROT and over-retained data in a world where data is growing at an exponential rate. As promised, in this week’s article, we’ll explore some of the ways to identify, manage and delete ROT data. If managing ROT data manually without the help of software were easy and time efficient, there would

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The Dangers of ROT Data and Over-Retention

The amount of data stored by organizations is growing exponentially, nearly doubling in size between 2020 and 2022, according to a report from Seagate and IDC. While this data can be used to drive better business decisions, it also comes with increased risk factors. Thankfully, the notion that over-retaining data is somehow a conservative approach to data management that will minimize potential

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Rational Enterprise Wins Seattle Public Schools Records Management Program RFP

MIAMI, FL – Rational Enterprise, an emerging leader in e-Discovery and Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) software, announced today that it has been selected as the provider of Records Management technology for the Seattle Public School system. Rational Enterprise’s RFP submission won out over that of Nuix and numerous other software providers to secure the contract. Seattle Public Schools will employ Rational Governance and Rational Review to serve a variety of use cases f

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Rational Enterprise and nFrastructure Announce Partnership

nFrastructure and Rational Enterprise announce partnership to provide compliance, litigation and open government solutions# Partnership Reduces Litigation & FOIA Costs for Customers# MALTA, N.Y. - nFrastructure and Rational Enterprise today announced a partnership to provide a more efficient and effective solution for litigation support, responding to FOIA requests, and ensuring compliance. This solution wi

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