Records management (RM), also referred to as Records information management or RIM, is the professional practice or discipline of controlling and regulating what are regarded as the most important records of an organization through the entire records life cycle, which contains in the time such records are thought through with their eventual disposal. This work includes prioritizing, classifying, identifying, storing, securing, archiving, maintaining, retrieving, tracking and ruining of records.
Records management is part of an organization’s broader actions that are associated with the subject or subject referred to as Government, risk, and compliance (or “GRC”) and is mostly concerned with the signs of an organization’s actions together with the reduction or mitigation of danger that may be associated with such evidence.