Viewpointe, a provider of electronic content management and image exchange solutions and services, has announced the launch of Viewpointe's content assessment services, designed to help companies understand their information governance readiness based on industry best practices and standards.

With Viewpointe's content assessment services, companies are provided with valuable insight into what information to trust and leverage, areas of duplication and risk, as well as targets for cost reduction enable organizations to make fact-based decisions that affect strategic goals.

Specifically, Viewpointe's content assessment services comprise of four key components—analysis, classification, collection and assessment—all of which create a systematic approach that allows companies to explore, analyze and validate the business value of the unstructured business content from across their enterprise.

Through this assessment, Viewpointe helps organizations:

Identify potential risks or compliance gaps and identify opportunities;

Effectively prioritize areas for management within the  environment;

Identify areas for cost reduction and efficiency improvements;

Establish a strategy for the defensible disposition of data that can inhibit productivity and add risk if stored unnecessarily;

Understand their information governance readiness compared to industry peers;

Provision a future state policy, procedures and technology vision;

Develop a business case and technical solution to optimize the company's information; and

Manage the content lifecycle of valuable information via the OnPointe platform.

This new service complements Viewpointe's information governance platform, OnPointe, which enables companies to manage their enterprise content, records and digital storage via Viewpointe's private cloud in a secure, scalable and cost-effective way.