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While metadata is not new, it has come to light as a critical element of automated information life-cycle management systems. Many products for archiving and content management create and use their own metadata today — but these databases must become part of a federated system. If they do not, firms will be faced with a fragmented portfolio of information life-cycle management tools that have no common policies, management, or audit trail. Because standards bodies are just beginning to coalesce around ILM and metadata, firms should carefully plan their usage of point products for data retention.

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