Disposal and Governance Management for IT

IBM Disposal and Governance Management for IT helps IT defensibly dispose of data, link legal obligations to information assets, and reduce the cost and burden of eDiscovery. It enables IT to monitor legal compliance risk and cost, determine current employee legal duties and information business value of assets, and confidently and defensibly retire applications and dispose of data.

IT organizations manage thousands of data sources and tens of thousands of employee IT assets. When companies have hundreds or thousands of evidence obligations and thousands more regulatory obligations for information, it is very difficult for IT staff to determine what to keep, how to keep it and when to dispose. With both information and legal obligations accelerating rapidly, companies face escalating costs and risks.

Disposal and Governance Management for IT:

Catalogs data sources and assets by class, geography, organization, data capabilities, security and discovery attributes. Your organization can simplify data inventory management with a flexible classification structure.
Covers all information sources, both electronic and physical.
Makes it easy to keep the data inventory current though cross-enterprise workflows to identify gaps or changes in the data or information.

Disposal and Governance Management for IT complements Classification Module and Content Collector to eliminate the "Big 3" information management risks and costs.

IT "saves everything," increasing discoverable mass.
Enterprise is unable to defend disposal practices due to inconsistent processes and retention periods.
IT disposes of data of value to the business or with legal obligation.