Enterprises are struggling to ensure compliance, optimize business processes, and reduce organizational risk while supporting strategic business objectives. Burdened with increasing risk, operational inefficiencies, and the ongoing expansion of responsibilities over affiliates and business partners entrusted with crucial data assets, businesses require simple but flexible data-policy solutions.The Align 3.0 Data-Policy Provisioning Suite from Synomos enables an extended range of managers, whether their concerns center on business, compliance, risk, data, or privacy to monitor, manage, and deploy enterprise data policies while improving and optimizing enterprise processes and reducing risk.
Align Policy Development Environment (PDE)
As the primary data-policy management tool Align PDE allows compliance staff to define policies, review information handling practices, perform powerful “what-if” scenarios, and generate reports on all aspects of their data governance programs.
Align Enterprise Service Center (ESC)
Effective data governance programs encompass not only data and policies, but also people and partners. Align ESC is a simple web application that allows managers, partners, and employees to look up policies, obtain approvals for new information practices, and interact with compliance staff.
Align Federated Policy Management (FPM)
Governance programs are enterprise-wide endeavours that can easily grow in complexity and cost. Align FPM allows data-policy managers to define areas of responsibility, construct approval workflows, and easily design compliance reports for business, jurisdiction, and specific policy expertise areas.
Align Data-Policy Transaction Management (DPTM)
Enterprise data transactions by applications, employees, and partners can be automatically analyzed and acted upon with near real time reporting, alerts, and complete data-policy management dashboard reports.
The Align3.0 Data-Policy Provisioning Suite contains policy templates that support easy definition of data-policies, that have identification services for enterprise data assets, and that can monitor data activities, aggregating policies, practices, and data inventories in a single environment, optimizing data processes. Changes to business policies centering on data use are simple, system-wide, and seamless. The continual publishing and monitoring of data access, use, and sharing unites and aligns the entire enterprise data supply chain.
Align can serve enterprises of any size, whether their data assets are physically stored in one location or in several. The modular architecture and ease of updating, perhaps due to changes in corporate policy or to new regulations, affords Align a low cost of ownership and high return on investment.
Data policy and practice reporting provides an audit trail, and the built-in expert system allows instant policy and risk assessments. “What-if” scenarios are deployed to eliminate any potential for negative impact, minimizing risk and exposure. Align’s Intelligent Data-Policy Provisioning acts as a singular policy repository, seamlessly uniting policies and practices with people and systems.
Align monitors incidents across the network, immediately analyzing queries against defined policies. These events are then presented in dashboard reports and are flagged as alerts or notifications, through email or via pager. Align reduces complexity and risk, as well as increasing your control system-wide.
Leveraging over six years of research—resulting in patent-pending technologies—Synomos has developed ontologies for governance and policies, working within the framework of an expert system. The system’s automated intelligence minimizes dependence on compliance staff, resulting in significant, immediate, and extensive cost savings.
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