Iron Mountain has unveiled its new Analytics Dashboard, providing RIM professionals instant access to programs managed by Iron Mountain, allowing them to focus on analysing data and making changes to achieve both corporate governance and business performance goals

As the value, and importance, of effective information management continues to rise, organisations are placing greater emphasis on understanding their information as an essential business requirement. In turn, traditional records and information management (RIM) programs have been transformed into the more holistic and global category of information governance, moving beyond just compliance and security into uncovering the value of their information.

This has challenged RIM professionals to provide greater transparency into the sophistication and performance of their program, identifying actionable insights that can make information more valuable.

Using advanced data visualisation the dashboard provides organizations and departments immediate global visibility into their records and information management programs to help identify potential risk and compliance concerns, as well as opportunities to apply greater retention controls to their information. With the ability to benchmark comparisons of key metrics, customers also can see how they stack up against their industry peers.

Additionally, they can use these metrics to measure the health of their programs with the Iron Mountain Risk Indicator, further demonstrating effectiveness against internal goals and identifying opportunities for building the business case for change, and then monitor their progress towards those opportunities for program transformation.

Key metrics available in the Analytics Dashboard include:

Retention Schedules – Organizations can properly manage their offsite storage inventory and associated timely dispositions in accordance with their records retention schedules, uncovering potential storage cost savings.

Retention Tracking – Through tracking the volume of record retention holds for off-site storage inventory down to the department level, organizations can ensure they are correctly categorising and managing their information regardless of geography, helping to mitigate compliance risks.

Improved Inventory Tracking – By providing insight into off-site storage carton inventory that may be missing required key metadata, organisations gain a better understanding of their overall storage and can better apply retention.

Internal & Peer Benchmarking – With agreed-upon key performance indicators that demonstrate the health, effectiveness and return on investment of records and information management programs, information governance leaders can benchmark against peers within their industry, reporting the findings to leadership to bolster the business value of their organization’s program.

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