Iron Mountain Smart Sort

Achieve your information governance and business objectives

Do you...

• have a large volume of inherited records?
• have trouble finding records when you need them?
• want to relocate inventory but first need to destroy what you no longer need?
• want to destroy records but can’t confidently isolate which ones are eligible without a substantial investment?
• want to go paper free but find it difficult to make decisions about which records to digitise?
• need to isolate records for a merger, acquisition, or divestiture?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, ask us about Iron Mountain Smart Sort.

Your challenge

You need to sort and reorganise your records inventory to make defensible decisions on disposition. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as it sounds.

What makes disposition so complicated?

• Lack of Inventory Integrity/Visibility: When key metadata is not captured and listed throughout the information lifecycle, it is difficult to search, manage, and make decisions on what records to retain, digitise, or destroy.
• Commingled Record Types and Event Date Complexity: Different record types have different requirements. If records are not organised according to record classification or event date, you can’t confidently and defensibly take action.
• Reorganising Records is Labour-Intensive and Expensive:You lack the resources to sort each file by destruction eligibility date, record type, a unique identifier, or other requirement.

What this means

• Unnecessary Cost: Large volumes of records without file-level metadata that are stored without regard to destruction eligibility dates or record classification will impact your ability to effectively manage your program.
• Increased Risk: Holding on to records longer than necessary increases the risk of information loss and regulatory violations. It also adds complexity to legal discovery, audit response, and compliance management processes.
• Lost Productivity: Finding what you need and making quick decisions on records disposition requires a well-organised inventory. Without an efficient process to sort and reorganise files, you could lose time and delay your critical objectives.

Our team can support you from Iron Mountain record centres or at your location. If you have records in-house or at an offsite storage facility, we can support your needs.

Simplify and expedite decision-making

With Iron Mountain Smart Sort, you can quickly and confidently make decisions about your legacy files to enable a more compliant and efficient records management program.

Our trained records management team will use input from your database and records retention schedule to automate defensible decision-making at the file level. We will sort and reorganise your records so that you can confidently make decisions about disposition and quickly meet business objectives, like responding to a divestiture, legal matter, or destruction requirements.