February 16 – Global Information Governance Day 2017

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SUBJECT 2017:  INFORMATION GOVERNANCE TO INFORMATION OPPORTUNITY:

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Today is the Global Information Governance Day! #GIGD occurs on the third Thursday in February and was established to raise the awareness of information governance.

WHAT IS INFORMATION GOVERNANCE (IG)?

IG is the activities and technologies that organisations employ to maximise the value of their information while minimising associated risks and costs.

IG is a holistic approach to managing corporate information by implementing processes, roles, controls and metrics that treat information as a valuable business asset:

  • to make information assets available to those who need it
  • to provide employees with data they can trust and easily access while making business decisions
  • to reduce the legal risks associated with unmanaged or inconsistently managed information

The information governance, after a preliminary analysis, results in a classification of different value levels of your information. The outcome of this classification is the identification of your information with engaging/probative/legal value. (for instance business contracts, policies…)

Breaking news on information governance in Europe – Trusted service provider for legal documents Labgroup first PSDC to be certified – #Archiving2.0

Since three millennia, the archiving of the writings is inseparable from its paper support. However, technological advances make it possible to perform native electronic records and to dematerialise paper documents.

The European regulation eIDAS (Electronic Identification and Trust Services) 910/2014, which has been fully implemented since the 1st of July 2016, has clearly demonstrated the willingness of member states to consider these technological advances and democratise digitisation by:

  • enhancing the security of electronic exchanges;
  • recognizing the universal value of the electronic signature;
  • granting the legal value to a digital document.

In Luxembourg the legal framework anticipates and supports this democratisation of the digitisation. The law of 25th of July 2015 on electronic archiving recognises the probative value of electronic copies of paper documents produced by a PSDC (Provider of Digitisation and Conservation Services) certified company to respect all the conditions of strict fidelity to the original and, moreover, presumption of conformity with the original.

As being the first company which is certified PSDC-DC in Luxembourg, Labgroup is certified as:

  • Provider of Digitisation Services, in other words Labgroup is empowered to create legal electronic copies of paper documents;
  • Provider of Conservation Services, which guarantees the integrity, confidentiality and persistence of electronic archives throughout their retention period.

What is the value of the PSDC status abroad? While Luxembourg has been a precursor with this new law, other countries have also embarked on the path of digital transformation by introducing an attractive legal regime for electronic archiving. However, no other country engages the state through the certification of service providers, such as the PSDC status in Luxembourg.

By archiving in Luxembourg, companies in Belgium or France could therefore both exploit their national legislation and benefit from the guarantees offered by the PSDC status.

Do you want to learn more about information governance or electronic archiving?

Do you need further information on legal electronic archiving, project or risk management to efficiently implement your digital transformation project? We offer dedicated and tailored intra-company trainings to help you implementing your electronic archiving project!

Contact us now for further information by sending a mail to servicedesk@labgroup.com

Subject 2016 – Issues retrieving your documents

Subject 2015 – Benefits of information governance

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Cloud based Applications – Seven Compelling Benefits, by Corelynx INC

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Discover the newest article about “Cloud based Applications – Seven Compelling Benefits” by Paul Anderson, Corelynx INC. 

The worldwide cloud computing market is expected to reach the milestone figure of $19.5 billion by 2016. That is approximately 36% compound annual growth rate.
– Forbes

Given this rapid growth in cloud computing, it becomes essential to learn what are the main factors that are driving the popularity of cloud based applications and cloud based software companies. Cloud based applications bring several benefits over to a business.

Here are the 7 top benefits:

1. Improved Security

The beginning of cloud computing trend saw data security as one of its major loopholes. Consequent of which, both large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses were skeptical of using cloud based applications and chose to rather stick with server-based programs. However, as cloud computing evolved, the loophole of data security got accurately filled up.

Today by all means, cloud based applications are equally secure because of the huge amounts of money that cloud providers invest into securing their site-specific infrastructure. This averts any kind of loss, illegal procurement or other damage to data stored in the cloud. So unlike locally-hosted software that is always vulnerable to virus, data loss, identity theft, intellectual property theft and so on, cloud based applications face none of these. …

For further information, we invite you to read the full article . 

Copyright 2016 © Corelynx INC.

Executives Say Less Than 10 Percent of Business Processes will Rely on Paper by 2018, Xerox study

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Xerox study shows the digital enterprise is on the horizon but there’s more talk than action. (survey of 600 IT decision-makers in large North American and Western European organisations.)

The “Digitisation at Work” report from Xerox shows the move from paper to digital processes is nearly upon us but many survey respondents admit they may not be ready for it.

The report found broad concern over paper-based processes, with cost (42 percent) and security (42 percent) cited as primary issues. Survey respondents predicted an average of only nine percent of key business operation processes will run on paper in the next two years.

For further information about the study, we invite you to download the press release.

New solution to scan and archive data

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Discover the newest article on electronic archiving, released the 25th of September 2015, by the “Lëtzebuerger Journal”.

Labgroup from Contern and NG partners/Xerox have developed a new solution which enables the companies to scan data at their premises and to archive them securely at Labgroup. This solution, “made in Luxembourg”, will focus on small- and medium-sized businesses but will also interest the Big 4. The solution fulfils the requirements of the new law of the 25th July 2015, which introduces a new e-archiving framework. Labgroup is currently a candidate for the status “Digitalization and Archiving Service Provider” (PSDC), which will only be recognized after a certification process. The “e-Docubank” will be available from today on.

Labgroup has already been certified to ISO 27001. The common solutions have been, until now, that the documents were collected and scanned by Labgroup before being destroyed.

International Archives Day

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When talking about archives, several questions are asked by the public:

What does archive mean?

What is the role of an archivist?

What is the retention period of my archives?

How to manage electronic archives?

What to keep on paper?

Therefore, all around the world, professionals unite on the 9th of June to help you understand why it is important to manage and value your archives. This is an excellent opportunity to discover and understand or to get a more precise view/approach to our profession, and to get a closer look at a fascinating domain!

Labgroup as an active actor of the archival sector in Luxembourg celebrates this event.

Indeed archives have a central place within Labgroup in our day-to-day activities especially around management and long-term preservation of archives, whether physical media or electronic. Our activities also focus on organizing and the designing of archiving policies and procedures to assist you in defining your retention policy. This allows you to research, processes and optimize the availability of your archives in accordance with good practices, professional standards and regulations.

Greetings from the Labgroup team and Happy Archives Day!