Using IBM Enterprise Records

Records management

This chapter provides an overview of records management. We describe the concept of a record, the importance of records management, and how it relates to information lifecycle governance.

We cover the following topics:

•What constitutes a record

•What records management involves

•The business challenge: Information lifecycle governance

•The importance of records management

•Legal, regulations, compliance, and investigations

•Planning an information lifecycle governance program

•Records Management Maturity Model

•Organizational ...