Coyote Creek Consulting Launches Records Management Practice Area

Online, September 21, 2009 (Newswire.com) - MILPITAS, California -- Leading Silicon Valley IT consulting firm Coyote Creek Consulting announces the launch of its new Records Management practice area. Dedicated to helping area organizations reduce the costs associated with records management and improve both legal and regulatory compliance, the division will be headed by records management expert Sam Lamonica.

"Records" span the spectrum from paper documents to all electronic data sources. While some items must be retained for practical, legal and regulatory compliance reasons, others contain transitory information that can be disposed of immediately. The trick is to identify which is which, and then to have a detailed system in place for managing all of the items which must be saved.

"Proper records management is vital for all businesses," explains Mr. Lamonica. "Organizations must be able to identify their critical documents and files, determine retention and access policies for each item, store and manage these records (both paper and electronic), implement litigation holds when necessary, utilize electronic imaging and indexing as appropriate, and then properly dispose of items when the time comes. Coyote Creek will now be offering both full service and 'spot assessment' records management solutions encompassing all of this and more."

Records management can:
- Reduce the costs associated with both physical and electronic storage
- Make it easy to find, retrieve, update, and re-file electronically stored items
- Maintain legal and regulatory compliance
- Improve operational efficiency
- Streamline the business

"We're very excited to launch this new practice area and have Sam on board to run it," states Coyote Creek President Mike Faster. "Sam was actually one of our first clients back in the 1990's, and now we've truly come full circle. With over six years managing the Records Center/Archives Department at a large California-based engineering and general contracting firm, plus over 25 years of IT experience in business systems application development, corporate infrastructure, and data center management, Sam brings a wealth of expertise to our clients."