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Data Governance and System z

Your key to business optimization

With 95 percent of Fortune 1000 companies storing their business data on IBM System z due to its business continuity, integrity and scalability, this business class server has become a key platform for Data Governance.

Liability or Asset?

The rate at which we collect, store, share and process information increases daily. You would think that businesses would be so well-informed and knowledgeable that they would be able to mitigate risk, leverage information to drive new business opportunities, control costs, and become smarter about the way they do business. Yet data breaches, compliance failures, use of misleading information continue to make headline news.

Data Governance is an holistic business value driven approach to help transform data from a liability into a trusted strategic asset that can be leveraged across the enterprise to lower cost and risks, increase an organization’s profitability and maintain a competitive advantage.

Data QualitySecurity and PrivacyManaging the Information Lifecycle
Bad data is bad for business - whether classified incorrectly, architected badly or its accuracy questionable. Incorrect product description can lead to legal action while incorrect pricing can lead to financial ruin. In the case of some industries bad data can lead to life threatening consequences, When inaccurate data is consumed by applications and people, errors are propagated across the enterprise distorting higher level information, resulting in unnecessary risks when making decisions

Learn how to instil greater confidence in your data by transforming it into a high quality asset that can drive deeper business insight resulting in lower risk and higher profitability.
Do you ever wonder who accesses, views and uses your data and for what purpose? You should. The amount of data being processed has grown rapidly as global communications create a “geographic transparency” that enables more organisations to interact and share information. While this might increase the opportunities for new business with the chance to reach more customers so too does the threat of fraud. With off shoring of development work involving sensitive data how do you maintain privacy controls across your extended enterprise?

Learn how to protect your information, satisfy audit requirements resulting in lower risk and increasing your customers’ trust.
How you manage your data can make the difference between business success or failure. How you store your information can impact the service levels your customers and management expect. While we collect more information we also have to retain much of it for longer periods in line with compliance laws and regulations. The more data you have in your production systems the slower they can become. What happens if you suffer data loss ? Can you recover from a disaster in time without affecting the business.

Learn how to store, optimize and intelligently archive and recover your data lowering cost by avoiding unnecessary hardware purchases and risks through improved resilience.
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