Archive Builders: (310) 937-7000
SteveGilheany@ArchiveBuilders.com
Archive Builders: (310) 937-7000
SteveGilheany@ArchiveBuilders.com
Archive Builders provides an in depth understanding of document imaging as used in records management. Presentations are given on the computer industry as it relates to document imaging systems and records management for specific sites. Archive Builders reviews existing document imaging systems operation for the controls and procedures needed to meet the standard of reasonable care of records. Systems are also reviewed to see if the systems could benefit from a technology refresh. The typical Archive Builders client is seeking to make their records management program more computer intensive. Our clients are also planning to take advantage of advances in document imaging and reductions in the cost of computer imaging hardware.
Clients served have been in the areas of engineering, municipal government, commercial records management, education, biotechnology, natural resources, and manufacturing. Records management requires a long view of the system life cycle. During the life of a document, the records management system controlling the document may change more than once. The volume of records stored requires that changes be carefully planned long in advance of implementation. It is frequently difficult to discern trends in computing technology because of the rapid turnover of products--and of companies. It is even more difficult to identify media and formats that will be useable over the life of the documents in the care of a records management system. Archive Builders provides insight into ways to minimize these risks.
Our educational services for managers span the continuum from management to operation to technical services and from a quick overview to a twelve week course to a multi-year project. Frequently the program must be fit to the time, funds, and experience of the organization. We also offer the background or context for the extention of a well-implemented records and information management program into a more digital future. We show how the security, integrity, and service requirements of a solid records management program can be implemented and extended in the electronic document world. In all cases, Archive Builders strives to provide records managers with a means of preparing their programs for long term success in a world where every advance makes makes new demands on records and information management.
In addition to educational services, Archive Builders has experience in system planning, site surveys, reviewing system installation, and reviewing system operation. This experience, gained over eighteen years in document imaging systems for records management, provides a ready source of analogies and possible outcomes that can be expressed in records management terms. These shared experiences assist Archive Builders clients in planning their own low risk, low cost steps to enhance their effectiveness as managers of the new records and information management systems that are emerging today.
