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Definition of document retention - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: Learning Document Retention and Data Management
Definition of document retention
- Alright, let's talk about document retention. First and foremost, we're going to want to know what is document retention, what's the definition of that term? Well, first of all our entire interaction in a business sense is run by documents. As Eric Schmidt of Google said, "Every two days now we create as much information "as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003." The volume of information usually memorialized in a document is exponentially growing. The purpose of a document retention policy has designed some rules as to what of that information you keep, why, and for how long. So what is document retention? Document retention is the identification, storage, retrieval, and destruction of documents important to you and your business. It's looking at what documents do I generate on a day-to-day basis? Why would I want to keep those documents? How would I keep those documents? For how long and how would I retrieve them? Why have a document retention policy at all? Who…
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