Iron Mountain® Workflow Automation™

Despite coherent digital strategies elsewhere, when it comes to repetitive tasks and processes many organisations still default to email management. All of which is hidden and resource-heavy with loopholes that can’t be tracked, reported on, or audited. Although users may not be aware of it, such archaic unsupervised activity can threaten the company’s adherence to external regulation while negatively impacting productivity and customer experience.

Assure data security and compliance

In this use case, the customer, a well-established bank in Central Europe, was already using Iron Mountain for records management, digital scanning, and storage of backup tapes and hard drives.

However, it became clear that employees were spending huge amounts of time managing emails from customers and colleagues, with buried information, making it difficult to control complaint and claim handling, travel and event management, and other processes like outputs from board meetings. Inevitably, with no way of centrally monitoring and reporting task status, follow-up actions and deadlines were being missed.

That’s where Iron Mountain® Workflow Automation™ came in. Easily extendable, the solution currently covers 22 workflows, 29 document types and 660 metadata indexes.

Now, as email messages are received, they’re quickly logged and assigned as tasks within tightly controlled digital workflows. Their owners regularly receive automatic reminders and can enter e-signatures if required. Importantly, the solution is also able to satisfy the bank’s strict requirements for high data security and compliance.