IGI Virtual Event: Learning from Capstone to Solve your Email Headaches
Channel: The Information Governance Initiative
Date: 03/03/2015

Email has been an IT headache for at least two decades, pushing infrastructure to its technical and budgetary limits. And, as CIOs have seen their budgets flat line, the importance of better email management has only increased. Yet, most organizations have failed to meet this challenge. To make matters worse, many email messages today are clearly business records, and courts and regulators are losing patience with organizations that do not treat them as such. The challenge isn’t going away any time soon. Email is how business gets done in today’s world. Managing it effectively is critical to business success and to meeting legal and regulatory requirements. 

Few organizations face an email challenge on the same scale as the U.S. Federal Government where single agencies can produce tens of millions of emails per week. With the impending 2016 deadline imposed by the Managing Government Records Directive to manage all email electronically rather than “print and file,” and the recent spotlight on the IRS email issue, Federal agencies are striving to implement an agency-wide Email and Records Management solution.

The IGI hosted a live discussion about email governance in the U.S. Federal government, specifically NARA’s “Capstone” strategy that addresses these email challenges.