Information Governance: Addressing Compliance, eDiscovery, and Information Privacy in the Enterprise

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Good information governance "good governance" is a proactive, policy-driven information management strategy for the global enterprise. It integrates enterprise business objectives with information management policies that address corporate governance and regulatory compliance, eDiscovery, and privacy mandates holistically throughout the information lifecycle. It standardizes and automates processes and policies across line-of-business (LOB) systems and IT infrastructure. A good governance strategy should simplify the demands and lessen the inherent difficulties of managing information for regulatory compliance, eDiscovery, and privacy. In all three areas the challenges are similar, but they have different risk profiles and business impacts. The same good governance foundational technologies that address information management challenges in corporate governance and regulatory compliance can also be applied to eDiscovery and information privacy.

A best practices architecture for good information governance ensures the integrity, security, and accessibility of information. Through multiple client access points, it delivers the ability to manage regulated content with automated, enforceable retention policies and an integrated content archive that accommodates content of any type.

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