Disposal and Governance Management for IT

Overview

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

Benefit	Features and Capabilities
Governance Console	Determine which systems have the highest cost and risk profiles — sort systems by regulatory, discovery loads Identify high-risk systems without governance capabilities with more efficient methods or systems View data sources by use in the records retention program, business unit, or hold obligation See the IT staff responsible for each system View which records are stored by data source
Manage Asset Inventory	Capture, track and compare systems and system attribute changes over time Distribute mapping responsibility with workflow, approval and review processes Make ad hoc additions to data source catalog with interactive IT workflow Maker/checker workflow

When combined with IBM Atlas eDiscovery Process Management and IBM Global Retention Policy and Schedule Management, IBM Disposal and Governance Management for IT provides the foundation for IT compliance and defensible disposal. Learn more about Disposal Governance.