The amount and variety of Information that is created and maintained in electronic format has increased dramatically over the past 2 decades. There is a great need to address records management problems associated with electronically stored information. As computer becomes more widely used, the decentralization of information (mostly stored on pc’s, tablets, laptops) has also become a common practice. Employees adopt their own Filing system for electronic records and information is not readily available when needed. Scanning/ Digitising records & documents while managed in shared folders/servers, however are not classified properly and do not sit in any Electronic Records Management Software and cannot be retrieved when needed. Other issues such as hard disk crash, data corruption, virus infections, no backward compatible for software applications, type of media’s to use, cloud based applications and much more need to be considered when implementing Electronic Records Management. While the same rules of Conventional Records Management apply there are still some major differences that must be looked into in order to better manage an organizations Electronic records