Overview
The rate at which new and revised compliance mandates emerge is staggering. Deploying and maintaining solutions for each new mandate consumes extensive resources, including systems, training and personnel. Controlling the escalating cost of compliance is a challenge; however, the cost of non-compliance can be worse.
While each mandate has its own requirements, there is one common denominator: the need for greater visibility, control and accountability of content and processes. Companies need to develop and maintain an overall compliance architecture for data and content that integrates records management into non-Enterprise Content Management (ECM) environments to reduce the costs and risks of managing electronic and paper records. When you address compliance from an architectural perspective, you can automate content collection, preservation and search, creating a far more efficient and cost-effective legal discovery process. IBM® solutions for ECM compliance help you:
- Provide a flexible foundation for support of your compliance and corporate governance initiatives now and in the future
- Automate all records-based activities, eliminating burdensome user participation
- Support a single source for a complete unstructured information compliance architecture including audit control, retention rules management, records management and e-mail management
