A Better Way to Manage Unstructured Data
ZL Tech delivers a singular platform for managing unstructured data, such as files and messages, for governance requirements, while extracting intelligence for analytics and AI. The ZL Platform offers a unified solution to government agencies for requirements such as records and information management, classified records handling, data cleanup, FOIA requests, eDiscovery and investigations, and data privacy. Simultaneously, the platform enables agencies to “wrangle” massive volumes of unstructured data, extracting intelligence to feed to GenAI and analytics.
The ZL Platform offers these key capabilities:
Manage-In-Place + Archiving
As data volumes expand, risk and cost escalate. The only proven approach is to cleanup and manage data in-place (without creating a copy). Three major benefits result: First, the cost of storage drops by an order of magnitude. Second, the risk of legal exposure from data copies is minimized or eliminated. Third, the extraction of all relevant metadata means there is no need to retrieve the original document from its source, which results in time-to-data-analytics being accelerated by up to 1,000X. At the same time, high-value documents (e.g., business records and legal hold documents) can still be archived with full governance functions, such as tamper-proofing and chain-of-custody.
Records Management at Scale
To keep data volumes manageable, agencies must delete data. The challenge, however, is to implement “defensible disposition” to avoid legal liabilities stemming from deleting the wrong documents. To do this at scale requires extensive engineering, especially when compounded by “events-based triggers” for deletion.
Unified Governance
To date, information governance solutions have mostly been deployed as point solutions, requiring agencies to use a different application for each function. However, the sheer volume of data renders such point solutions untenable, due to the need for continuous communication between each of them. The way forward is to “unify” all the governance functions into one platform, so that only one motion is needed to satisfy all functions.
Enterprise-Wide Search for FOIA Requests
Most solutions typically operate on a “sandbox” of data, while the ZL Platform can operate across the entire “beach.” The sheer power of data-wrangling across the beach vs. the sandbox is a gamechanger for FOIA, eDiscovery, investigations, and analytics, in terms of breadth and depth of insights made possible.
Combining Information Governance with GenAI / Analytics
While GenAI has made an explosive entry into the global marketplace, the current practice of feeding data copies into analytics repositories is exacerbating legal liability stemming from proliferation of sensitive documents. The solution is to feed only governed data into analytics platforms, while handling only metadata which does not carry the same legal risk as original documents.
The ZL Platform can be hosted on public and private clouds, or on-premises. ZL Tech has a 25-year track record of managing massive data volumes to satisfy governance obligations for the world’s largest organizations and agencies.