Record Management Life Cycle

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The Janco Record Classification and Management Policy Templeate deals with all aspects of tthe records management lifecycle:

  • Record Management PolicyManage data growth. Archive inactive data simply and safely, reducing the burden on yourcritical business systems and ensuring your IT organization's ability to meet service level agreements. At the same time, reduce your company's overall storage footprint. As a result, your company can more readily contain the costs of hardware, databases, and packaged applications, as well as administration and maintenance.

  • Optimize test data management. Developing, deploying, updating, and managing enterprise business applications means testing them repeatedly using multiple, representative, real-world test data sets - typically as a complete copy of the production database. Making multiple full copies of large production databases consumes valuable database and storage capacity. Your IT organization should optimize the test data management environment to control runaway data management costs by creating fully functional "lean" copies that are as much as 75 percent smaller than the full production database.

  • Support regulatory compliance. Depending on your company's location, industry, and type of data, you may be required by law to retain business-critical data for a decade or more. Retain data for a longer period in more costeffective storage. At the same time, ensure that your IT organization can access that archived data on demand, so that your business can respond promptly and easily to audit requests.

  • Protect sensitive data. An estimated 60 percent of companies copy production data into nonproduction systems for development, testing, and other needs, compromising data confidentiality. Masks nonproduction data, while maintaining its referential integrity and keeping the data characteristics intact. developrs, QA personnel, trainers, and others can effectively use the realistic yet masked data while staying in compliance with internal, industry, and governmental data privacy mandates and regulations.

  • Support corporate divestitures and reorganizations. To shed less-profitable parts of your business or realign business units to better fit your overall business strategy, your company needs to remove the divested or realigned business unit's data. Efficiently separate functionally related data from complex transactional systems, allowing the new organization to become operational faster and to realize quicker time to value.

  • Safely retire legacy systems and applications. As your business grows or as you acquire additional companies, legacy applications may start to proliferate in your IT environment. These legacy applications are rarely used and most have little ongoing business value. However, they continue to be maintained for compliance reasons, incurring significantly high software license, hardware, power, and maintenance costs. Reduce costs by allowing the application and the supporting hardware and software stack to be shut down, thereby saving on license, maintenance, and administration costs.

Record Classification and Management Template Includes Citations for Federal and Selected State Record Retention Requirements

A record is essentially any material that contains information about your company's plans, results, policies or performance. In other words, anything about your company that can be represented with words or numbers can be considered a business record - and you are now expected to retain and manage every one of those records, for several years or even permanently depending on the nature of the information. The need to manage potentially millions of records each year creates many new challenges for your business, and especially for your IT managers who must come up with rock-solid solutions to securely store and manage all this data.

The Record Classification, Management, Retention, and Destruction policy is a detail template which can be utilized on day one to create a records management process. Included with the policy are forms for establishing the record management retention and destruction schedule and a full job description with responsibilities for the Manager Records Administration.

Record Retention Requirements

Unitied States Employers have a number of record retention requirments that are mandated by the federal government.

The areas included with this policy template are:

  • Record retention requirements for SOX sections 103a, 302, 404, 409, 801a and 802.
  • Policy
  • Standard
    • Scope
    • Responsibilities
    • Record Management Policy
    • Compliance and Enforcement
    • E-mail Retention and Compliance
  • Job Description Manager Record Administrator
  • 12 forms for Record Retention and Disposition Schedule
  • Record Management Best Practices
  • Employee Record Retention Federal Requirements

Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. Recent technological developments in disk backup have had a positive impact on short term data retention requirements. But these improvements do not replace the need to execute and deliver on a long term data retention strategy which includes:

  • Business and Regulatory Requirements Demand a Long-term Plan
  • Manage and Contain Your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Encrypt Your Data for Secure Long-term Retention
  • Weigh the Environmental Impacts and Minimize Power and Cooling Costs
  • Simplify Management of the Entire Solution

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