Expect Experience and Quality with EID

EID has been recognized by the industry as being one of the industry’s oldest truly vendor neutral content/records management industry analysts. Robert Blatt, founder of EID, is frequently asked to develop articles for magazines and to provide guidance and direction throughout the industry and is a frequent speaker on the topics of Trustworthy ECM solutions and overall ECM technologies. Mr. Blatt holds the IGP, CIGO, CHPP​, and LIT certifications. More information on Mr. Blatt is on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertblatt/

Trustworthy Records Management Expertise

Mr. Blatt’s extensive Information Governance and Content/Records management experience includes emphasis on governance of information assets, strategic planning, project management, planning / implementation oversight, business process analysis and content/records assessments. This expertise includes building and leading Document/Records Management and Data Governance/Preservation related teams for over 35 years and most importantly has deep expertise and industry knowledge needed to identify areas within a records governance and preservation environment that would potentially need to be updated and/or modified.

Over the years Mr. Blatt focused on developing and overseeing Records Governance & Preservation (RGP) programs for clients and training client resources to maintain the programs after implementation. All of these projects required establishing a close working relationship with IT, business units, and legal to develop manageable programs that address identified issues and establish a path forward that complies with industry standards and best practices. Mr. Blatt is also convener of several ISO and industry standard setting committees and working groups related to these technologies and has been engaged in this work since founding EID, and is a credentialed ANSI expert representing the US to ISO TC/171 SC2.

eForensics and Investivate Expertise

Mr. Blatt has over 20+ years of Electronic Forensic (EDF) experience and over 35 years of content /document management, and advanced technology experience ranging from technical design and implementation of large enterprise systems and holds the CHPP certification from the National Sheriff’s Association (CHPP # 306739). This expertise is based on extensive law enforcement experience functioning as a Sheriff’s Task force Lt. for over 12 years participating in large number of cases. After leaving the task force, Mr. Blatt moved to California and established EID, providing numerous records management consulting and forensic services, including functioning as an expert witness and lead eForensic investigator for several securities related and other regulator investigations, along with various civil forensic services over the years.

These EDF services included providing detailed analysis and examination of electronically stored information (ESI) in various forms received during legal discovery and regulatory investigations. This information being examined would typically be originally stored in enterprise wide and/or distributed computing and storage environments resulting in the need for the EDF forensic expertise with a deep understanding of record storage and management enabling the regulators and other counsel to decide how to word discovery requests and examine the information produced by the target organizations.

Mr. Blatt is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Morris County Police Chiefs Association, and National Sheriff’s Association eForensics certification (CHPP #306739). Mr. Blatt also has led the development of most of the ECM industry ISO/ANSI standards on Trustworthy ECM Solutions and numerous other standards, technical reports, and technical specifications. Other members of Senior Staff hold additional certifications and qualifications available upon request.