Balance Matters
Cut Back on the IT Fire Drills
Keep critical IT projects on schedule and put legal departments in control of their own business processes
Historically, eDiscovery processes have been a massive burden for IT departments. When legal departments lack the capacity and knowledge to facilitate their own information collection processes, they often have no choice but to hijack IT resources. An unplanned request to produce and preserve hundreds of thousands of emails and documents can easily derail the plans of the most efficient IT department and cost the organization millions.
Effective Information Governance strategies equip legal departments with simple, common-sense tools that allow them to easily search across managed information stores or even reach out into unmanaged environments, like active mailboxes or user desktops. By enabling legal departments to conduct their own discovery exercises without drawing on IT resources, IT departments can focus on optimizing systems, simplifying archiving processes, and delivering overall value to the organization. In short, by building eDiscovery, auto-classification, archiving, and other capabilities into the overall Information Governance strategy, organizations ready themselves to dramatically reduce the cost of managing enterprise information.
Is it Time to Consider Auto-classification?
Corporate Information Governance practitioners know that defensible disposal of unstructured content and cost savings are both key outcomes of sound Information Governance programs. How can auto-classification of information help drive both?
Cost-effective and Strategic Archiving
Meet compliance requirements, reduce storage costs, and maintain seamless access to content for business users
Faced with today’s climate of strict compliance and demands for maximizing ROI, archiving matters to your organization more than ever. Companies inundated with content—scanned documents, email, files from file systems or webpages, data files from host, SAP®, Microsoft®, and other applications—must deal with it every day in ways that meet all regulatory requirements and instill organizational trust among shareholders, regulators, and customers.
More sophisticated and valuable than straightforward backup approaches to archiving content, strategic archiving capabilities of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems allow organizations to realize significant cost savings through the effective storage of archived content while still making it easy and fast for staff and other stakeholders to access it when and how they need it. As a key component of ECM, strategic archiving capabilities save more than just storage costs in the IT department. For example, when applied to archiving transactional data from business applications, legacy system decommissioning, consolidation of archiving landscape, or file system archiving, strategic archiving results in substantial, tangible returns.
Why Archiving Matters
Faced with today’s climate of strict compliance and demands for maximizing ROI, archiving matters to your organization more than ever.
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Optimized Email Management
Curb the rampant growth, cost, and risk of mismanaged corporate email
Email continues to be the most used form of business communication—and it isn’t slowing down. The rising cost of maintaining and administering email systems is one of the single biggest burdens on IT departments. The escalating cost of Microsoft and Lotus® email backbones stem from the need to purchase additional servers on an ongoing basis to counter diminished performance and dwindling storage space.
Progressive organizations are including email management solutions as part of broader information governance programs to curb the costs associated with the exponential growth of email. With tools that allow for automated, interactive, or rule-based archiving, organizations can offload email content and attachments from email servers to more cost-effective storage media, while retaining a high level of accessibility, and realize rapid payback.
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