If you don’t look after your house, leaving the walls to crack, the ceiling to leak and mould to grow in the bathroom, it’s not an easy task to repair. But if you manage it on a regular basis, maintenance is much easier. The same applies to your knowledge. If you don’t look at it for a year, you’ll see some major gaps in the metadata, incorrect naming conventions, outdated storage locations etc

Most companies admit that their data is “all-over-the-place” and no-one has the time to sort it out. Rather than trying to find useful historic data that might help you with today’s projects, it’s simpler just to “start again”. How much time and money was spent accumulating that data originally? Can you afford simply to write that off and start again?

At Appetite, our Data Management team have the best assets of all – patience and determination. We know that it is a painstaking task to uncover and organise historical data. It is also a huge undertaking to analyse legacy data and decide how best to store it for today’s requirements.

Based on our experience to date, we can help you to develop data retention policies, to decide what to retrieve from the past and what to archive in an orderly fashion; what to store now and where to store it so that one final version lives on with all the edits and revisions required both legally and commercially.