Disposal and Governance Management for IT

Allows you to simplify data inventory management

• Catalogs data sources and assets by class, geography, organization, data capabilities, security and discovery attributes.
• Works with a shared data source catalog to promote transparency throughout an organization.
• Covers various information sources, both electronic and physical.
• Makes it easier to keep the data inventory current by providing cross-enterprise workflows, which identify gaps or changes in the data information.

Provides a governance console

• Determine which systems have the highest cost and risk profiles, and sort them by regulatory and discovery loads.
• Identify high-risk systems without governance capabilities.
• View data sources by use in the records retention program, business unit or hold obligation.
• See the names of IT staff responsible for each system.
• View which records are stored by data source.

Manages asset inventory

• Capture, track and compare systems and system attribute changes over time.
• Distribute mapping responsibility with workflow, approval and review processes.
• Make additions to data sources with interactive IT workflow.
• Use maker and checker workflows.

Is part of the IBM Defensible Disposal Solution

• The three software products in the IBM Defensible Disposal Solution enable IT to defensibly dispose of unstructured and structured data, reduce storage growth and manage data by its value.
• These products help IT gain transparency into legal and business obligations and policies for data stored in a shared data source catalog.
• You can automatically apply retention schedules and legal holds on data to consistently dispose of unnecessary data.
• Atlas IT eDiscovery Process Management makes it easier for IT to manage compliance and data. It automates communication of discovery requirements and facts between IT and legal staff.
• Global Retention Policy and Schedule Management is a single, cohesive retention management system. It provides natively integrated workflows and analytics for information governance stakeholders.