The US government has been working towards a paperless environment for many years. Numerous mandates and directives, such as M-23-07, have been released with an emphasis on digitizing records, utilizing a secure electronic record keeping solution, sending all existing paper documents to a Federal Record Center, and eliminating agency-operated storage facilities.

Now that there is an extension, agencies are asking themselves: what should I do between now and then to get the job done?

• Fund this mandate
• Assess their paper and electronic content
• Transform and manage legacy document conversion
• Establish an approach to manage document lifecycles
• Securely Manage Electronic Records
• Change the culture of paper within the government