Metadata, a key component of any document management system. Everyone needs it, but getting it set up and having it used are two completely different things. Document management systems offer a number ...

Metadata can say a lot about a given document -- as well as the document's creator. Here's how to manage what types metadata appear in your Office documents to protect your security while still giving ...

Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run. When I was tasked with modernizing our enterprise document ...

Have you ever struggled to find a document buried deep within your files, even though you know it’s there? Or maybe you’ve wasted precious time trying to determine whether a file is the latest version ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...