Oyster IMS launch new Content-Based Information Review solution
9th September 2010
Oyster IMS are pleased to announce the launch of their Content-Based Information Review solution for file shares.
This offering, based around the Active Navigation Discovery Engine, allows you to:
Manage risk and compliance
- Discover legal compliance and policy threats and avoid potential fines associated with contravening information management legislation
- Uncover leakage by the identification of records outside managed archives
- Improve the discovery process through reduced repositories and redundant content removal
- Regain control of storage and take control of your data
- Proactive Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Manage your information
- Enhance information quality by classifying data for security, retention or disposal
- Enrich the metadata of your content
- Discover and exploit the valuable information you already possess
- Prepare for information governance strategy
- Create reports to drive policy creation based on folder content
- Promote the importance of efficient information management
Operate more efficiently
- Free up clogged up storage, search and back-up solutions
- Reduce overall storage spend by recovering disk space used for duplicate, redundant, outdated and trivial content
- Space available for other applications - avoid the cost of purchasing additional storage
- Reorganise your information and design efficient user friendly filing structures.
- Provide evidence to encourage users to take control of unmanaged information stores
- Reduce resourcing costs associated with the recreation of existing data and time spent searching
- Prepare for migration to a document management system (DMS) such as Microsoft SharePoint
- Exploit initial costs savings by continued use of the solution for regular folder ‘housekeeping'
The solution is available for a limited period as a low-cost proof-of-concept to give you an idea of potential cost savings, efficiency improvements and quality enhancements.
How is all this achieved? The Oyster IMS solution can help you and your organisation achieve all of this by using the Active Navigation discovery engine, implementing user friendly processes, governance, training and marketing tailored to suit your individual requirements.
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