Records management in Australia is a well-established field with a strong focus on compliance and accountability. In this interview with Conni Christensen from synercon.co we want to discuss the current state and future trends in records management. Conni Christensen...
Records Management & Archiving
Records Management Pain Points
What are the sore points in data management or document management? What are the "eternal obstacles" that most organizations cut their teeth on? Most organizations implicitly or explicitly have a "records management system," by whatever term such a system is known in...
E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? (part 1)
Part One: Introduction Without a doubt, e-mail has fundamentally changed the business world and also private communication behavior in the last ten years. Today, business correspondence or private communication is mostly done by e-mail, as this electronic exchange of...
Unchangeability according to GeBüV Art. 9
In practice, questions about the implementation of GeBüV Art. 9 arise time and again. In particular, under which circumstances modifiable storage may be used in the archive. Here are the requirements for an archiving solution to be compatible with Art. 9 and for...
E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? (part 2)
E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? Part Two: Reasons for Email Archiving The most important thing right away. With the retention regulations of Swiss commercial law in force since 1.1.2013 , there are no longer any legal requirements in Switzerland for the...
Art. 9 GeBüV, Timestamps and DCF 77
Bad news for operators of systems which use the DCF 77 signal for time stamping. According to Art. 9, the following requirements apply when working with changeable memories: Art. 9 Permissible information carriers 1 For the retention of records are permissible: .....
“Defensible Disposal” – Now!
As already briefly touched upon in the September newsletter, the unrestrained storage of data without a corresponding strategy is still a fact of life in many companies. We held a well-attended Beertalk on Data Cleanup last Monday, October 24. It can be assumed that...
MATRIO® Data Cleanup Webinar on BrightTALK
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Electronic invoices possible without electronic signature?
Download our whitepaper on the topic (as of 4.2017): As we had already announced, since 1.1.17 the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) also allows electronic invoices that have not been digitally signed. The...
Simplification of documentation and archiving obligations in companies
Quote: Bern, 27.09.2019 - On September 27, the Federal Council adopted the report "Reducing regulatory costs. Relaxation of documentation and archiving regulations". In addition to the ongoing efforts of the federal government to reduce duplications in documentation...
Records Management as a Service (RIMaaS) – When experts are missing
The competent handling (information governance) of data is a new discipline that is only just emerging. New job profiles are developing, but the necessary professionals are lacking in most organizations. There is a lack of links between IT , business and legal when it...
Why paper invoices do not have to be kept in Switzerland
There is no legal obligation for companies in Switzerland to keep invoices (or other receipts) in physical (paper) form (unless they operate in specifically regulated industries): Since 2002, electronic commerce and electronic data storage have been promoted across...
Is a file plan or filing system sufficient?
What for, that would probably be the follow-up question. In classic records and document management, file or retention schedules are understood as the central element for mastering documents. In information governance, however, a retention schedule is only one of many...
Procedural documentation
It is undisputed that the procedures for storage and archiving must be documented (Art. 4 GeBüV). The basic requirement here is to understand and be able to trace the core processes of archiving and retention. The primary purpose of the documentation is to be able to...
Film review: A Decade of Discovery or Do you have to keep all your e-mails in Switzerland, too?
On May 7, a film was shown in Zurich(trailer), which shows the development of the American eDiscovery process during the last 20 years. The film describes the development of the processing of data, which must be presented in American trials. In U.S. procedural law,...
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