Move technology forward without leaving obligations behind
Retire legacy archives, complete migrations, and integrate acquired environments while keeping required information accessible, understandable, and governed beyond the systems that created it.
Complete the transition without extending the dependency
IT and Information Governance need a way to separate continuing obligations from the systems that hold the data. When required information can be preserved, understood, and governed independently, infrastructure can be retired and each population can move toward the right future state.
Retire systems with confidence
Identify the information that must remain preserved and the legal, regulatory, records, or governance requirements that apply.
Move required data into a governed environment while maintaining available source context and metadata.
Once the information has been validated and continuing obligations can be supported independently, legacy infrastructure can be decommissioned without losing access to required information.
Keep required information useful
Maintain the historical identities, source metadata, relationships, and other available context needed to understand and use information after it moves.
Keep retained data searchable and accessible to authorized teams, even when the original accounts, repositories, or systems no longer exist.
This allows information to support future investigations, legal matters, audits, and governance requirements without restoring the original environment.
Reduce ongoing cost
Reduce the cost of maintaining legacy platforms whose primary remaining purpose is to hold historical or legally required information.
Moving that data into a governed environment allows organizations to retire unnecessary infrastructure and reduce licensing, storage, maintenance, and specialist support costs.
IT resources can then focus on current business systems rather than sustaining legacy environments solely to meet continuing obligations.
Establish clear ownership
Give IT, Information Governance, Legal, and Records teams a shared understanding of which information must be retained, the requirements that apply, and who is responsible for decisions about its future.
Maintain visibility into retention, preservation, access, and disposition requirements as systems and responsibilities change.
This supports coordinated decisions about what to keep, move, or dispose of, with a clear record of the actions taken and their supporting rationale.
