An active document retention and destruction policy is critical for any business. Not long ago, the topics of data retention and records management elicited yawns from senior executives. After all, the storing of old documents and E-mails hardly seemed like a strategic imperative. But if those executives are yawning now, it's not from boredom but from being up all night worrying.

With EDMS, two factors influence the selection of storage components: (1) how long the images need to be stored and (2) how often the images need to be retrieved. For long-term storage, microfilm or optical storage is usually preferred over magnetic storage. Magnetic storage is used in applications that require a high retrieval rates but relatively low volume. Optical storage is recommended for high-volume, high-retrieval rate environments. The choice of rewritable versus write-once (WORM) optical disks depends on the user application.

EDMS- Electronic Document Management Services provides users with ability the to manage Microsoft® Office documents such as Word, Excel, Power Point from the creation, revisions and final records. EDMS Services help business units have the right document available at the right time. No more searching for the latest version.