Gather internal and external requirements

• Determine and document regulatory and legislative drivers
• Determine individual business unit needs related to drivers and applications

Archiving strategy development

• Define and develop archiving policies and key metrics
• Define and develop service levels
• Develop an archiving cost model including savings and exposures
• Develop an archiving reference architecture and selection criteria
• Valuation, ownership, and classification of data into archiving data types

Archiving deployment

• Product selection, acquisition, and deployment
• Develop standard operational procedures including completion, compliance, and quality metrics