The Information Lifecycle Management Challenge

An efficient business decision system requires effective Information Lifecycle Management of assets, including collecting, cleansing, analyzing, tracking, consolidating and retrieving any piece of data that may hold value for a company, whether or not it comes from centrally maintained master data systems, external open Web sources, non-organized file systems or remote storage, including data in non-supported legacy file formats, private partner data, and data from networked systems.

In addition to this daunting scope, the value of any unit of data does not rely solely on its age or how often it is accessed. All types of information can have vastly different values at different points in their lifecycle depending on evolving business objectives and functions, security requirements (consistence, accessibility, privacy), compliance requirements, access time and TCO.

Effectively capturing, managing and exploiting data across the range of sources and cyclical valuation is the great challenge of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).

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Exalead's Solution

Exalead CloudView™ leverages the best of search-engine derived technologies to drive innovative ILM solutions. Use Exalead to:

Improve business processes, productivity and security through the efficient use and reuse of information assets

• Ensure compliance management by using the full-featured and high performing Exalead platform to track all changes to business related units of data and to assess their value all along their lifecycle.
• Dynamically “classify” or rank information according to value, whether or not this information lies inside or outside the firewall, thanks to Exalead’s continuously updated 360° view of data.

Improve product and service quality

• More efficiently manage product and service processes with unified data access (regardless of format) and effective tracing of data changes and status.
• Enhance collaboration with partners thanks to the service-oriented architecture of Exalead, which enables easy publishing and updating of e-catalogs and other distributed data collections, as well as, real time leveraging of data pushed by partners.

Improve ROI with easy setup and shorter deployment cycles

• Quickly leverage valuable information from the information systems of merged/acquired companies, extracting and mapping these assets with your own thanks to Exalead’s unique easy setup process and low TCO.
• Increase effectiveness of change management projects by giving employees user-centric information access tools, ensuring continuous access and consistency between legacy and target systems, and encouraging a full valorization of corporate knowledge.

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