Centralized record policies for your business information

IBM® Global Retention Policy and Schedule Management is a single, cohesive retention policy management system for all information, regardless of media type. It provides natively integrated workflows and analytics to aid policy management and information governance. The solution helps eliminate information management risks by offering centralized retention controls to support your business and legal requirements. Its integration with an organization’s corporate governance catalog enables a unified actionable view into all retention obligations for each data type across all enterprise data sources. Also, part of the IBM Atlas Policy Suite.

Manage governance policies for data

Establish information lifecycles and enable auditable programs for both physical and electronic data.

Publish accurate, dynamic schedules

Manage schedules, change requests and controls centrally and consistently, regardless of information type.

Host a shared law library

Create a centralized repository to catalog laws for all operating jurisdictions.

Maintain centralized retention control

Deliver a consistent corporate retention framework, and unify data retention procedures by country, function, system and business process.

Improve communications

Publish bulletins and other communications globally by role, country and business unit affiliation. Alert stakeholders when laws, repositories, staffing or procedures change.

Accelerate your compliance preparedness

Manage changing regulatory retention requirements from one place with a centralized view into all data types. Enable employees to view the policies applicable to their function or business unit.

Key features

  • Lifecycle management and program compliance
  • Governance shared library
  • Schedule support
  • Centralized management
  • Communications across legal, IT and business staff
  • Govern policies for all data sources
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