Information is essential to your business because it drives decision-making, customer support programs, back office operations, collaboration between business functions, and product innovation. However, with information comes risk -- risk related to compliance, security, and privacy. Organizations are well aware of their ongoing legal and regulatory obligations because non-compliance can lead to substantial fines, serious revenue loss, significant damage to the company's reputation, and possibly jail sentences for C-level executives. The question is, how to manage that risk? The answer is information governance with RSD GLASS.

Information governance enforces desirable behavior for the creation, use, archiving, and deletion of corporate information. It includes myriad global and local regulations, and contains corporate standards for managing information. An information governance program includes business processes and information lifecycle practices (more than just retention and disposal). It incorporates data privacy attributes, eDiscovery requirements, storage optimization, and metadata management.

RSD GLASS helps organizations manage corporate risk and improve operational efficiency as they work to achieve compliance with regulations and laws governing enterprise information and records management. RSD GLASS is the first information governance platform to address all phases of the enterprise information lifecycle. Current records management and enterprise information management solutions tackle the information governance challenge from the bottom up by hard-wiring their policy and enforcement capabilities to proprietary repositories. RSD GLASS takes a top-down approach: central policy management, federated enforcement, and repository agnosticism.

RSD GLASS provides authorized users with simple and rapid access to content in all corporate repositories. Internal transparency is achieved by weaving information governance capabilities into the fabric of the content infrastructure. This represents a fundamentally new design for information governance, and offers organizations far greater flexibility to implement truly enterprise-wide solutions.

RSD GLASS is a proven information governance solution that enables the largest companies in the world to make better business decisions and mitigate risk associated with retention management. This is accomplished through:

• A centralized policy engine called RSD GLASS^® Policy Manager that captures and validates all the requirements mandated by applicable laws and regulations and and those required by the business, and transforms them into coded policies for use and enforcement in the field.
• Information lifecycle management using RSD GLASS^® Governance Manager to manage and control lifecycle management processes across business functions and jurisdictions and affiliates.
• Industry-standard connectors called RSD GLASS^® Governance Services that enforce and integrate lifecycle actions within complex IT infrastructure across structured and unstructured repositories.
• Transparent, high-speed access using RSD GLASS^® client to securely search and access governed content located anywhere in the enterprise -- from any business application. RSD GLASS^® client can also be used to capture documents.