Enforce Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance with Information Lifecycle Management

Informatica information lifecycle management solutions for governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) are an essential part of your company's data governance program. With these solutions, your company can reduce the risks of exposing private data, failing to comply with data retention regulations, and incurring e-discovery fines. These solutions enable your IT organization to enforce data management policies for structured content, maintain control over data in databases, and reduce risks of noncompliance with data governance and data privacy policies.

  • Cost-effectively comply with retention and disposal requirements
  • Protect sensitive information stored in production and nonproduction databases
  • Support faster e-discovery and audits while reducing costs

Database Archiving

Data governance programs have not traditionally focused on data in databases. As a result, information stores go unclassified or unmanaged for long periods of time. Information tends to be over-preserved. Without solid processes and tools in place, data is at a high risk of being improperly stored or accidentally deleted.

Database archiving is a core component of a successful data governance program, and the Informatica solution for database archiving enables companies to retain data cost-effectively and to move inactive data to lower-cost infrastructure. This solution relocates inactive data to another online database archive or to a highly compressed, secure, immutable, and easily accessible file format. Fewer storage and management resources are required to archive data. The solution allows administrators to set retention periods for database archiving and data purging. Database archiving processes for all data, whether it is archived to on-premise or cloud-based database archiving storage, are managed centrally.

Test Data Management

Sensitive and private data can be exposed to unauthorized users when production databases are copied to multiple nonproduction environments, such as test, development or training. The Informatica solution for test data management eliminates these risks. This solution ensures that sensitive and confidential data, stored in nonproduction databases, is protected. Data is de-identified and maintains the structure and format of the original data to promote testing, development, and training activities while preventing unauthorized access to the original sensitive or private data.

Application Retirement

With the Informatica solution for application retirement data retention policies for structured records in databases and enterprise applications can be defined and enforced proactively. Once transactional data has been classified and retention policies have been assigned, data can converted to an optimal, compressed, and immutable format and moved to a central archive store. This solution automates the enforcement of retention and disposition policies by purging the data in a timely manner.

The Informatica solution for application retirement also helps search, discover, and preserve relevant records for legal cases and audits. This solution supports legal hold to ensure expired records are not deleted. The entire process is monitored and logged to support legally defensible audits of procedures. When application data is retired, the original business context is maintained independently of where the archived data is stored.