Spotlight on Searchability: How Digitization Helps You Find Records Faster

Spotlight on Searchability: How Digitization Helps You Find Records Faster

An image of hands typing on a keyboardBefore converting to an Electronic Records Management (ERM) system, one government office administering a federal lending program had accumulated over 3,000 standard record center boxes of files on site. There were so many, they had to stuff the files into actual offices.

But if you think having them close by made individual files easy to find, think again. With so many files, it could take an hour just to locate and go through the relevant box to find the individual record they needed. But it was far worse for records stored off-site: those could take weeks to locate and retrieve.

Read the full post on our TransAccessDM blog.