Autonomy automates compliance efforts

Enterprise search firm Automony has released a suite of tools intended to help organisations ensure that every piece of information they hold is handled in accordance with the full panoply of legal regulation.

Autonomy has bundled together various of its enterprise search tools along with the e-discovery technology it got from its acquisition of Zantaz, to deliver a new Information Governance suite, which it claims will give companies real-time insight into their compliance efforts.

Autonomy's Information Governance includes three key modules: compliance; enterprise legal hold; and disposition manager.

These tools deliver more than 400 data repository connectors, which allow firms to discover data throughout the enterprise, including that held in emails, databases and on desktops. Firms are then able to categorise that data and automate the retention and disposals policies for each category of data. The management tools also notify users of potential policy violations.

“Most organisations are under the misconception that their current technologies are enough; that is until they’ve had one really bad experience,” said Browning Marean, a partner at law firm DLA Piper US LLP in a statement supporting the release.

“With 14,000 separate records retention regulations out there and the complexities and costs being incurred just trying to comply with legal hold requests, a company doesn’t have the capability to manage this without advanced technology.”

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