Applicability of ISO 15489 in oil companies: case of SONATRACH general direction

Abstract

At the beginning of 21st century the companies find themselves in front of big deal because of new information technologies that cause what we call big data in organism, information become difficult to manage, the growth of records produced and received by companies while are doing theirs activities can’t be managed without using techniques and scientific methods designed to facilitate localisation, use and exploitation of records, because of these problems the enterprises have demanded from national and international standard organisations to elaborate standards that can help them on managing theirs records, the application of ISO 15489 standard is company project, so we will deal in this study with the first step in the project, these step is called the applicability of ISO 15489 standard in general direction of Sonatrach, this study is divided into 05 chapters, the first chapter dedicated to the principles of study: problematic; hypothesis; goals; importance of study; previous studies, the second chapter dedicated to ISO 15489 standard: presentation; historical overview; keys elements of standard; record types, the third chapter is dedicated to the management of administrative records according to the standard: life cycle of records in companies; important tools on managing records, the forth chapter dedicated to general direction of Sonatrach: presentation; business; organisation chart; archive department; archive management at archive department, fifth chapter dedicated to the data analyze collected by data collection tool; presentation of study results and some advices for performing records management at Sonatrach company and help in the application of ISO 15489 standard.