NEW YORK,, NY - 06 Feb 2008: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today introduced the IBM Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control, an integrated offering that combines software, hardware and services in a unified environment to enable organizations to achieve, sustain and prove compliance with multiple legal and compliance mandates while reducing cost, complexity and risk.
The IBM Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control features an information vault for storing all required evidence, complemented by tools that automatically identify, classify and aggregate content and process information from multiple sources, and that allow organizations to analyze, monitor and deliver that information for legal and operational purposes.
IBM Compliance Warehouse leverages IBM’s end-to-end Information on Demand capabilities, combining integrated products and services with best-practice expertise, providing clients with an accelerated approach to addressing multiple, but specific, compliance issues.
With this offering, customers can optimize their processes and systems for compliance through a comprehensive set of capabilities, including:
- Control over potential information risks by automatically identifying and capturing unrestrained sources -- without burdening business users
- Security through automated capture of information as part of business processes to enforce policy and reduce cost and risk
- Confidence that information is securely stored, managed and retained in a legally compliant, cost-effective manner
- New levels of visibility, analysis, reporting and business intelligence
Today’s announcement expands IBM’s cross-company Information on Demand strategy, which is helping customers transform their businesses by unlocking the value of information. Under the strategy, IBM software, hardware and services are enabling customers to gain a competitive advantage by delivering trusted information in context, reducing risk, while improving business operations, worker productivity and client care.
The IBM Compliance Warehouse provides the full breadth of offerings required for a complete compliance solution, such as IBM FileNet Records Manager and IBM Classification Module, as well as other IBM software, hardware and services provided by Cognos, Lotus and Tivoli, IBM System Storage, Global Business Services and Global Technology Services. The IBM Compliance Warehouse can also virtualize and interoperate with non-IBM technologies.
"Companies are realizing that they need to work with a trusted partner in order to achieve enterprise-wide compliance," said Lee Roberts, general manager, for IBM Enterprise Content Management. "Point solutions scattered throughout the organization do not provide the enterprise-level visibility, or control, required to ensure compliance, while decreasing risks, costs and time-to-decision. This is particularly true when addressing legal discovery."
The IBM Compliance Warehouse is the first solution designed specifically to optimize clients’ processes to enable compliance. It merges, in a single deliverable, capabilities that will allow clients to securely manage unstructured information in a legal manner regardless of its current form or location and to classify and analyze the content. The IBM Compliance Warehouse takes advantage of IBM’s ZeroClick technology that is designed to enforce records management policies at the technology layer, minimizing user-related error, addressing time and cost factors and promoting best-practice records management.
IBM’s capabilities complement each other without significant development and integration costs, allowing for faster deployment of a secure, extendable and scalable enterprise platform for legal compliance, but without the risks and costs of point solutions or placing the burden on business users.
For more information on the IBM Compliance Warehouse, visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/
Contact(s) information
Carol Thornton
IBM Media Relations
714-327-3746
Carolthornton@us.ibm.com
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