Access to accurate and timely business information is vital to ensure business agility, and improve decision making. Efficient, flexible and assured delivery of data is therefore central to business accountability and success.

The techniques, technologies and products that store, manage and protect data can be described as ‘divisive’ with many different ways of achieving the same goals. This is compounded by Data Centre pressures and a shortage of genuine skills and experience, which creates uncertainty.

Understanding what data exists and where it resides within an organisation can be a challenge. Let alone how its value changes over time, how much risk is attached to it, how well protected it is and the impact of legal/regulatory compliance.