Extract from Jim Gill’s article “What is Enterprise Information Archiving and Why is it Important?”
With the ever-increasing growth of enterprise data, meeting compliance guidelines from regulatory bodies regarding digital files, communications, Personal Identifiable Information (PII), financial information, and financial data can be daunting, especially with the increasingly complex and interactive elements common in today’s websites.
This is where an Enterprise Information Archiving solution becomes necessary for mitigating compliance risk.
What is Enterprise Information Archiving and why is it important?
Enterprise information archiving (EIA) leverages technology to create centralized storage and organization of corporate data (examples include: file shares and website content, as well as communications such as email, collaboration app data, SMS, and social media).
EIA includes the archiving of structured and unstructured data. In the past, archives were generally made up of structured data neatly stored in databases. With the growth of unstructured data created on a variety of machines ranging from on-site terminals, work-from-anywhere laptops, and mobile devices, the need for specialized enterprise data archiving solutions is vital, so that organizations can maintain compliance with state and federal data regulations, as well as effectively manage data retention policies, while supporting their legal and human resources departments with internal investigations or eDiscovery.
