Lifecycle Management
Lifecycle Governance is the process of managing business information throughout its lifecycle, from requirements through retirement. The lifecycle crosses different application systems, databases and storage media. By governing information properly over its lifetime, organizations are better equipped to deliver competitive offerings to the market faster and support business goals with less risk.
The day-to-day challenges of Lifecycle Governance are exacerbated by the growth of data volumes. Lifecycle Governance solutions give organizations the agility to respond quickly enabling cross-role collaboration and high quality to accelerate delivery and performance of applications, upgrades, consolidations and enhancements to support business growth and compliance.
Focus Areas
There are four main areas organizations should focus on for streamlining management of the data lifecycle:
- Understand & Define: Understand where data resides, what domains of information exist, how data is related across the enterprise and define policies and standards for data management.
- Develop & Test: Create database structures and re-useable database code to enhance productivity and team collaboration. Create efficient test and development environments to support application delivery schedules.
- Optimize, Archive & Access: Ensure optimal performance of applications and databases, archive historical data to manage data growth. Ensure business users have effective access to the data – both production and archived.
- Consolidate & Retire: Rationalize the application portfolio, consolidate and decommission applications that are redundant or no longer current while maintaining access to the data per data retention rules, long after the application has been retired.
Next Steps
Understanding Information Lifecycle Management
Resources
Strategies that Deliver ROI
Application retirement and decomissioning projects