In the last decade, organizations have re-engineered their business processes and started using standard software solutions. Integration of structured data in relational databases has improved documentation of business transactions and increased data quality. But almost 90% of the information cannot be integrated in relational data bases. This amount of ‘unstructured’ information is exploding within the Enterprise 2.0. The use of social media tools to enhance collaboration, creates corporate blogs, wikis, forums, and other types of unstructured information. Structured and unstructured information are records, meant and used as evidence for policies, decisions, products, actions and transactions. Most stakeholders are making increasing demands for the trustworthiness of records for accountability reasons. In this age of evolving social media use, organizational chains, inter-organizational data warehouses and cloud computing, it is crucial for the Enterprise 2.0. that its policies, decisions, products, actions and transactions can be reliably reconstructed in context. Digital Archiving is a necessity for the
Enterprise 2.0.: the reconstruction of the past depends on records and their meta data. Blogs,
wikis, forums, etc., used for collaboration within the business processes of the organization,
need to be documented for reconstruction in the future. Digital Archiving is a combination of
three mechanisms: enterprise records management, organizational memory and records auditing.
These mechanisms ensure that a digitized organization as the Enterprise 2.0. has a documented
understanding of its past. In that way, it improves organizational accountability.