IBM Records Manager is a powerful and effective tool for applying formal records management policies and practices to electronic and non-electronic documents. Records Manager provides the infrastructure to declare, classify, store, manage, and dispose of records for any organization.

When used within a context of clear and consistent corporate policy, Records Manager can offer the following benefits:

• Help reduce litigation risk via structured document destruction. Records Manager provides a highly structured approach to record retention and destruction.
  
• Help reduce discovery costs during litigation via improved evidence discovery. With a well-defined process for record retention and destruction, backed by supporting audit trails, you may be able to reduce the total time of electronic evidence discovery (e-discovery) during litigation.
• Demonstrate compliance with regulations, including DoD 5015.2 certification. IBM Records Manager includes time-based retention and destruction rules, making it possible for organizations to easily comply with strict corporate or government regulations.
• Help improve decision making. Good recordkeeping ensures you are making important business decisions based on timely, relevant information, due to the structured destruction of dated or irrelevant information.
• Help reduce operational costs. Reduce physical storage costs, mandated e-discovery costs, and the costs associated with finding, identifying, and retrieving critical business records.