HP strengthens its information governance portfolio

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: HP Autonomy announced that two key products in its information governance portfolio, HP ControlPoint and HP Records Manager have been enhanced to enable organizations to better manage all enterprise information in accordance with corporate policy.

Both products help customers analyze and take action on business information  including "dark data" residing in email repositories, file shares, and SharePoint sites to achieve compliance, risk mitigation and reduced data storage costs.

Neil Araujo,GM, Enterprise Content Management, HP Autonomy said: "Recent market research indicates that it costs $25 to store a single Gigabyte of unstructured data throughout its lifecycle, which means that organizations can achieve substantial cost reduction by defensibly disposing of even a portion of their information. HP Autonomy is responding to this market need for addressing the hidden risks and costs of dark data with solutions that enable our customers to identify, analyze, categorize and govern this information more efficiently."

New features in HP ControlPoint 4.3 enable it to scale up to very large volumes of repositories and policies, enabling analysis on multiple repositories at the same time. In addition, it can now be used to drill down on specific subsets of a repository for more granular insights and benefits.  HP ControlPoint can categorize and automatically apply policies to information to ultimately remove data without business value and preserve important information as business records.

Other key enhancements in HP ControlPoint 4.3 now allow customers to:

Identify documents containing personally identifiable information, such as bank account details or social security numbers, to determine who has access to it and enable adequate protection or migration of this data into a secure repository. Detect, organize and cleanse information that needs to be migrated for storage cost reduction, security protection or technology-refresh reasons. Leverage a new user interface, built with a responsive design, that allows information analysts to sample and review large lists of documents across various different devices

HP Records Manager 8.1 Further Extends Information Governance Capabilities

HP Records Manager 8.1 is in HP's strategy to consolidate three legacy records management systems into a single electronic document and records management solution, which helps customers transform their records management practice into a holistic corporate information governance strategy.

Key enhancements in HP Records Manager 8.1 include:

Advanced Disposal Processing for enabling organizations to execute defensible disposition of data that resides in remote repositories. Enhanced auto-classification of records identified by HP ControlPoint. Full integration with desktop applications such as Microsoft Office, allowing most users to do their work through the product's mobile-enabled web interface. An upgrade path that enables customers of HP legacy records management products  to more efficiently transition and upgrade their existing environments to HP Records Manager

Spanning capture, document management, collaboration, business process management, enterprise search, records management and web content management, HP Autonomy ECM enables organizations to manage information across disparate systems and file formats. With HP Autonomy ECM, businesses can extract greater business value from information, reduce operating costs and enhance Information Governance. HP Autonomy ECM products are used by 10,000 organizations worldwide including over 80% of the AmLaw 100.

These announcements coincide with the Information Governance Forum (IGF) taking place this week in Sydney, Australia. Throughout the week, executives will share HP Autonomy's information governance vision and unveil several new products that underpin this strategy. Attendees also will learn best practices from industry executives who have successfully implemented strategies for governing data in their organizations.