Records are important to all organisations. They form the corporate memory, and thus the basis for executive and operational decisions; and they are required for compliance with an ever-increasing set of directives, laws and regulations. Today, almost all new records are created and/or received electronically; but the management of electronic records is problematic. Addressing these difficulties, by defining clearly what is needed to manage electronic records effectively, is one of the reasons for the production of MoReq2.

In the early days of electronic records management, software suppliers had very different interpretations of electronic records management. By providing a model specification, first MoReq and now MoReq2 provide a common language to express the capabilities of software suppliers and the requirements user organisations.

Several other specifications have been written to serve a similar purpose, though MoReq2 is – at the time of writing – the most comprehensive and the most advanced.  Other specifications can be downloaded from the “Other Specifications” page on this site.