CA and Acxiom have entered a partnership to deliver enterprise-class on-demand Information Governance service. The companies informed that the new service is immediately available.

The companies said that the new cloud-based, hosted service offers customers an alternative to on-premise software deployments, while providing a single portal view to better manage email, archiving, litigation holds, search, records declaration, retention and disposition.

The companies claimed that legal compliance and IT professionals will be able to conduct eDiscovery tasks directly from their desktops without a service provider intermediary, helping to achieve Lean IT by reducing overall costs, complexity and risk.

Acxiom claimed that by leveraging its hosted model, customers can achieve IT costs savings, improved efficiency, greater responsiveness to changing business conditions and increased revenue and profitability.

Galina Datskovsky, senior vice president and general manager of information governance at CA, said: CA is delighted to partner with Acxiom on a solution that will offer organisations the ability to gain control over enterprise information while also leveraging the benefits of the cloud. Acxiom has the expertise and experience in providing the secure, robust infrastructure required for cloud and hosted implementations.

John Costanza, vice president for global infrastructure management at Acxiom, said: In today’s business environment, IT professionals are under pressure to decrease costs and increase profitability while maintaining the ability to quickly respond to business demands. Our partnership with CA gives businesses the ability to securely access a robust, cloud delivered information governance solution that is managed by an industry leader.

“The Acxiom and CA solution delivers a cost effective, flexible and secure approach for meeting the growing demands around e-mail archiving, compliance and eDiscovery.