Compliance with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and similar legislation has driven an upsurge in investment in information management technologies. The marketplace is crowded with vendors offering compliance solutions based on old, new, and reconstituted technologies.

In seeking a basic level of compliance organisations need to categorise records, manage records within different formats and train users in rudimentary rules of recordkeeping.

The ISO 15489 standard for records management suggests that the enterprise could go much further – developing and employing a comprehensive regime where records are controlled within systems designed to meet community expectation, business and accountability requirements.

Will a technology solution alone assist the organisation to do all this? Highly unlikely. A compliant solution is a marriage of non-technical elements with appropriate technology.

Synercon assists government agencies and private enterprises in the development of this non-technical infrastructure, including

Creating a business classification scheme

Establishing records retention and disposal rules

Guiding staff through the difficult transition period

Contact us to find out more about how Synercon can help you in compliance management.