As if collecting and processing unstructured data isn’t difficult enough, companies must also ensure that they’re doing so in accordance with privacy laws, which vary based on the type of information being handled and its geographic origin. Meeting every regulatory requirement that applies to an organization often poses a major logistical challenge as a result. However, it’s one that Hewlett Packard Enterprise believes could be made a lot easier using analytics technology.

The vendor is putting its theory to the test today with the introduction of Verity, a new suite of governance tools designed to reduce the amount of manual work involved in handling corporate records. Its main selling point is a unified index that HPE says can makes it possible to centrally search, access and manipulate all the disparate data sources that are scattered throughout the average company. The first module in the lineup is an offering called Information Archiving that harnesses this consolidated view to help users quickly identify compliance issues.

Violations can caused by something innocuous as a member of the billing department dragging a spreadsheet with user payment details to the wrong folder, which makes them surprisingly common. As a result, removing the need to hunt down such incidents by hand can add up to a lot ot saved time for a company’s IT department. Plus, Verity Information Archiving also reduces the risk of problems getting overlooked in the process, a feature that has the potential to enable even bigger savings on the longer run.

For every major compliance violation that a company in a highly regulated industry like the healthcare sector preempts, there’s one less fine or business sanction waiting further down the road. To make Verity as appealing to many segments as a possible, HPE will provide a choice customers a choice between deploying it behind the firewall or on the infrastructure of one of its hosting partners.

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