All of the information of any enterprise or any individual is in some form of documents. These documents may be in physical or digital formats. Document retention is a big task to manage for any firm or individual as it plays vital role in the smooth sailing of business in future. Read more.

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DOCUMENT RETENTION – A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS
Every enterprise has a bulk of information flowing in and out every day. Some of this data is important and some is
of no use in future.
All of the information of any enterprise or any individual is in some form of documents. These documents may be in
physical or digital formats. Document retention is a big task to manage for any firm or individual as it plays vital role
in the smooth sailing of business in future. Document retention is vast field and requires a lot of expertise and
dedication. Usually firms and companies have a full department for this task or outsource this work to a firm that
specializes in the task.
Document retention firstly requires assembling all the data in one place to be sorted out as useful or otherwise.
Then this data is to be categorized and sorted according to its importance. Now this data is to be analyzed for future
use and properly stored for future reference. This requires storing the data either physically or digitally, depending
upon the nature of these records. Some documentation such as licenses and warranty cards are to be physically
preserved because of their nature of information while others can be stored digitally to save handling and caretaking
costs.
Regular checks have to be made for finding out data which is of no use anymore and is just being dragged. Removal
of such documents is also an important task as it helps in the optimum levels of document retention.