RM for PS firms

Interwoven introduces a new records management solution developed for professional services firms. Interwoven Records Manager (IRM) 5.0 has been designed specifically to allow such firms to achieve enterprise content compliance and effective risk management through a unified information management platform incorporating both paper and electronic records.

Built on a multitier service-oriented architecture, IRM 5.0 offers seamless integration with Interwoven’s WorkSite 8 collaborative document management system, which, Interwoven says, positions the company as the only ECM vendor to enable the unified management of records, documents and e-mails within a true matter-centric collaboration environment.

Coupled with the Interwoven WorkSite 8 collaborative document management system, IRM 5.0 enables e-mails to be filed in context with important business matters. This model frees users from the daily chore of records management while bringing centralized compliance control to the desktop. As a result, says the company, users can focus on their usual daily tasks, while still enabling the organization’s records management staff and CIO to enforce firmwide compliance policies.

Key features of Interwoven IRM 5.0 include:

• a flexible, consistent and centrally managed retention policy--the retention policy is applied and enforced across physical, electronic and e-mail records, enabling users to declare records at any level of a project hierarchy including single document, folder, matter or client;

• a productivity-oriented console for records managers, file clerks and risk management officers--a newly designed user interface enables centralized control over enterprise compliance policies enforced by the system including ethical walls, retention policy, standards, security policies and circulation;

• policy-based, server-managed ethical walls--redesigned around a policy-based system that is integrated with security policies and completely server-based.