Viewpointe has announced enhancements to OnPointe, its private cloud-based information governance platform. The latest platform enhancements further address the growing breadth of content sources and content types that organisations must consider when creating, implementing and executing their information governance (IG) strategies.

These enhancements focus on:

Cloud-to-Cloud Governance - It is critical that cloud content sources are part of any IG solution, especially as more organizations continue to expand their adoption and portfolios of cloud services. As such, this release introduces cloud-to-cloud governance for OnPointe for Messaging and incorporates the handling of applications such as Microsoft Office 365.

The OnPointe platform simplifies the process of governing enterprise content, regardless of source location. Now, Office 365 content like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business can be incorporated into a unified governance approach. It also enables organizations to apply the same retention, supervision review, security, records and legal hold policies to all enterprise content within a unified and optimized private cloud environment.

Structured Data Governance - OnPointe for Structured Data is Viewpointe's information governance solution for control of data growth, segregation and archiving of structured data sources. To strengthen IG practices and improve business results, OnPointe for Structured Data includes enhancements for connection, retrieval and analytics-preparedness (powered by IBM Watson).

With these enhancements, OnPointe customers can easily:

• Access the archive via ODBC, JDBC and APIs to maintain existing connection protocols and minimize the impact of applying good governance practices
• Create, manage and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system in a central catalogue to drive IG alignment across functional areas
• Perform keyword searches across all managed content, to enable any user, not just database experts, to retrieve and tag relevant data 

For organizations faced with the high costs of maintaining old or legacy applications, OnPointe for Structured Data helps increase accessibility of legacy data, while reducing overall system maintenance and cost. The solution also provides increased efficiency in maintaining compliance with industry regulations and system security updates to help minimize risk exposure. Overall, OnPointe for Structured Data helps organizations reduce system costs, while increasing production database system performance.

"With the rise of structured and unstructured content created from the continuous growth of big data and the Internet of Things, the importance of creating a comprehensive and cohesive IG strategy has never been more important," said Reed Irvin, executive vice president, Product Development, Viewpointe.

"Viewpointe's solutions uniquely address customers' evolving business needs, such as the desire for on-demand access to a variety of data sources, reduction of operating cost and risk while managing exponential data growth.

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