Gain control of your data with secure, compliant, and cost-efficient management tools from creation to disposal.
Protect data: Keep sensitive information safe from unauthorised access and breaches across its lifecycle.
Ensure compliance: Stay ahead of evolving regulations with automated, built-in compliance policies.
Optimise storage: Minimise data retention costs by eliminating unnecessary and outdated files.
Increase scalability: Adapt easily to growing data volumes with the ability to manage data across diverse environments.
Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management provides a comprehensive solution for managing data throughout its entire lifecycle across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This powerful tool addresses the five crucial stages of data management: creation, storage, usage, archiving, and disposal, ensuring that data is being governed in the correct way.
Automated retention policies across Microsoft 365 workloads, combined with flexible content retention and deletion options, help ensure compliance with regulations such as GDPR and POPIA, while optimising both storage and security. Additional features, like mailbox archiving and PST file importing, mean data is more efficiently managed, resulting in robust compliance processes throughout your organisation.
Our holistic approach means we consider data lifecycle management alongside SharePoint storage, backup and archiving to maximise compliance and minimise both risk and cost.
Our risk advisory team will help your stakeholders prioritise business requirements, targeting high-risk areas for maximum impact on security and compliance posture.
We guide your business team to develop compliant retention and deletion policies to avoid costly over-retention and non-compliance, before translating them into precise technical configurations.
We provide expert guidance on cost-efficient and compliant data lifecycle management, including archiving and backup solutions, to optimise data preservation.
Given our long track record working in highly regulated industries, we always place security front of mind, ensuring your data remains safe and protected at all times.
Our comprehensive approach to data governance will establish strong foundations for you to unleash the potential of AI in your business.
Cloud Essentials has more than two decades of Microsoft experience deploying secure data management solutions in regulated industries and complex business environments. We understand the challenges you face and can offer in-depth advice based on real-world experience to help ensure secure and compliant data lifecycle management.
From guiding your business team on developing fit-for-purpose retention and deletion policies to implementing security-first configurations and critical process automation, we manage the entire deployment. Our multi-disciplinary team, including Microsoft-certified technical experts alongside risk/governance professionals, work closely with you at all times to ensure a smooth rollout without any unnecessary burden on your team.
We found the process of completing the Microsoft 365 Compliance Assessment with Cloud Essentials very useful. It was a catalyst to bring together all the stakeholders in the project and to build together a prioritised roadmap. We really benefitted from Cloud Essentials' understanding of the inner workings of Microsoft Purview, combined with their knowledge of the legislative and regulatory compliance landscape. It's provided us with a springboard for success as we prioritise improving data governance and reducing data risk.
“Cloud Essentials has been essential to BulkSMS in ensuring we advance our data protection maturity in the local and global markets. We engaged with both the Data Privacy Assessment and Advisory Workshop and the Data Classification Taxonomy Workshop, which were run professionally by Cloud Essentials. In the workshops the Cloud Essentials data privacy team did a deep dive into the complexities of our operations and BulkSMS has benefited from their expert legal, compliance and technical advice in future-proofing our data protection programme.”
"I found Cloud Essentials’ approach to dealing with the process of demystifying data classification to be very effective at taking what seemed like a daunting and complex environment and breaking it down into sensible and easily consumable parts. Their depth of knowledge in this space is impressive and as a result of our interaction with them, our own depth of knowledge has increased markedly. I would recommend them with confidence."
"The Cloud Essentials team has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the Microsoft realm which has added massive value to our business."
"We found the data privacy workshop informative and effective. It was extremely valuable and provided actionable insights into our compliance journey."
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