Information Management and Governance (IMG) specialist, iCognition, has won a contract to deploy HP’s key information analysis and legacy data clean-up software, HP ControlPoint, at NSW’s Port Stephens Council.

“This is one of the first deployments of HP ControlPoint in the country, and it will provide Port Stephens Council with the ability to identify, connect and control information across enterprise systems,” said iCognition company Principal Nigel Carruthers-Taylor, 

“We will initially use ControlPoint to understand, classify, and reduce outdated and unnecessary content in file repositories and HP TRIM, but later we see it expanding into Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Council websites.”

HP ControlPoint helps organisations achieve information compliance by making it possible to apply disposition of policies to information in-place, or the migration of targeted legacy data to HP TRIM for appropriate records management and improved information access.

“It’s a key enabling technology for legacy data clean-up”, said Mr Carruthers-Taylor. 

“ControlPoint helps tackle information sprawl and shine a light on dark data that is sitting unmanaged in email repositories, file shares, and SharePoint sites. We look forward to helping the Council identify, value and harness their enterprise information.”

Neil Araujo, GM, Enterprise Content Management, HP Autonomy said: "Recent market research indicates that it costs $US25 to store a single Gigabyte of unstructured data throughout its lifecycle, which means that organizations can achieve substantial cost reduction by defensibly disposing of even a portion of their information. HP Autonomy is responding to this market need for addressing the hidden risks and costs of dark data with solutions that enable our customers to identify, analyze, categorize and govern this information more efficiently."

New features in HP ControlPoint 4.3 enable it to scale up to very large volumes of repositories and policies, enabling analysis on multiple repositories at the same time. In addition, it can now be used to drill down on specific subsets of a repository for more granular insights and benefits.  HP ControlPoint can categorize and automatically apply policies to information to ultimately remove data without business value and preserve important information as business records.