"In Civilized life, law floats in  a sea of ethics."

Earl Warren 1891-1974

American Chief Justice

Capability for real-time communications is a distinct competitive advantage for any enterprise. For employees 'Presence Information' about their contacts, makes these communications targeted, efficient, cost effective, and secured. Consequently, IM has become a core competency in which enterprises are willing to invest.

However, major scandals involving prominent companies have come to light, many through leaks of archived emails and other business records. Various Governments and regulatory bodies are enforcing use of archiving of communications, business records and documents, and management controls and audits of business conduct.

Several regulations have been enacted recently to strengthen ethical business practices, corporate governance and restore investor confidence,  as follows. These regulations require "Archiving and WORM’ing" of all communications (including instant messaging) regarding business activity.
  -For financial industry: SEC regulations 17a-4, NASD 3010, NYSE
  -For pharmaceuticals/healthcare: (HIPAA),
  -other regulations for Petrochemical, Oil and Energy industries.
  -Sarbanes-Oxley Act

More on Self Regulation and Compliance...

A set of new rules, that have taken effect from Dec 1, 2006, require U.S. companies to keep better track of their employees' e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents in the event the companies are sued, as per some legal experts. They are part of amendments to federal rules governing civil litigation and were approved by the Supreme Court's administrative arm in April 2006 after a five-year review.

Cordant's Services

Digital Imaging: 

Cost of digitizing a newspaper is nominal (generally<$10/edition)  but it can enable any newspaper readers to find online,  a story or photo, locate news, obituaries or marriage announcements made long ago. It also extends its reach to international audience, beyond local and domestic audiences. The newspapers can sell such contents and their circulation increases which also results in additional revenues and such digitized newspaper can be preserved virtually for eternity.  

For more information go to  'Advantages of Digitizing Newspapers'.

Cordant, Inc. is already scanning hundreds of US newspapers. in its facility equipped with ‘Vidar’ wide format (color) scanners (www.vidar.com) of 42” capacity. We can provide images in any optional format, resolution (normally 300X300 dpi), and color/tone etc. Newspapers can be scanned with a total 14-15 day’s turn-around time, from shipping to receipt of scanned images back to customers, for current editions.   

Even if you have PDF files for current editions, we can scan your past print editions not created digitally. Cordant has  entered into long term contracts for scanning/digitizing hundreds of other US newspapers currently. 

Digitized Newspapers Provide Links to History:

You can see the actual replica of the newspapers reporting the historical news. 

Courtesy: National Newspaper Archives

Kenya Maturely Gaining Freedom

Austin American, Ohio,  Dec 12, 1963

India and Pakistan become Nations_Aug 15 1947

New York Times, NY, Aug 15 1942

Terrorists Attack- World Trade Center Collapses_Sept 11 2001

The News,  Frederick, Maryland, Sept 11 2001

Kennedy is Assassinated_Nov 22 1963

The Gettysburg Times,  Gettysburg, PA, Nov 22 1962

Katrina Continues Path of Destruction_Aug 30 2005

Star Herald, Nebraska, Aug 30 2005

Software Testing Services: 

Cordant is diversifying into offering software testing services. It has its own Software Testing Center in New Delhi India (originally established in 2001) and also works with pre-qualified outsourced software development and testing vendors. The complete process is quick with Cordant; it takes just a few days or months for a process that would take you much longer to perform on your own. 

Cost savings are just the beginning. You also gain by having the top talent and expertise abroad testing your software as fast as humanly possible. Outsourcing, in general, is a more productive approach to deliver software solutions.  

For further details about any of Cordant's Products or services, please contact us via e-mail sales@cordant.com, or at toll free phone: 1-866-354-1925.

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