Almost two-thirds of the IT executives who participated in Nemertes’ benchmark, “Information Stewardship: Holistic Data Management in the Enterprise,” say archiving—and the related logging and auditing capabilities—are “vital,” and 24% consider them “very important.” And yet, only 21% of participants are using technology to help with their retrieval efforts, despite the fact that this is an onerous process for most.

Although the majority of IT executives consider their organizations to be “very” or “extremely” successful at information retrieval, six percent say they’re completely unsuccessful at it. This is a problem not just for compliance, but also for legal discovery, during which companies may be required to produce electronic records in a timely fashion. Companies that can’t face steep fines, among other headaches.

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