Compliance Which requirements are relevant and how can you fulfill them efficiently?

A flood of regulations

Information are more than bits and bytes. Today they have legally binding document status and must be saved permanently.

The regulations are overwhelming. There are numerous national legislative measures, local tax legislations and international regulations such as Basel II or the Sarbane-Oxley Act that stipulate extensive requirements for the long-term archiving of documents, files, data and e-mails, possibly in addition to a company’s internal compliance guidelines. The introduction of suitable IT systems for secure and longterm archiving has thus become a necessity.

The vast number of requirements is already bewildering for small companies. How should IT prepare itself for the job?

Enterprise IT should concentrate on the essentials

Satisfy compliance guidelines and legal requirements by introducing a company-wide archiving and compliance infrastructure.

In fact, from the viewpoint of IT, compliance requirements can be summarized into three key points:

• The ability archive a defined set of information consisting documents, files, data, e-mails etc. in a secure  and long-term reliabel manner.
• Establish high-performance search and research functions.
• The ability to monitor and log access to the archived information.

The dg product family is the optimal solution for this purpose. You create a central solution to all compliance requirements towards the IT. Right from the first day, you have the security you need to comply with pending fiscal audits or legal proceedings. Functional or department-specific procedures for storing information can be successively introduced, once the initial requirement shave been specifically formulated for a fundamental, enterprise-wide archiving policy.

In addition to the storage benefits, archiving gives you an additional critical advantage: relevant information can be found faster, more securely and more completely by the powerful search functions.