CSC - Data Integrity: cutting costs through mapped hard copy records

Through the data integrity project, CSC mapped hard copy records to the retention schedule and destroyed necessary boxes reducing storage costs by $150,000 per year and saving over $1,000,000 in real estate expenses.

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The data integrity project gave us the ability to be able to prove the worth of our program, in a way that then started getting more attention and more investment and more buy- in from our stakeholders. CSC has been a leader in the IT industry for more than 50 years. With nearly $14 billion dollars in annual revenue and 87,000 professionals servicing virtually every industry across the globe.

When I started at CSC in July 2009 we still didn't have a global policy we still didn't have a global records retention schedule. A lot of the foundational pieces were still missing and so I had to get it done in a hurry. And to actually go and lift the lids on all of those boxes of records would have been far too labor-intensive and really not worth the money. The data integrity project and the output from that was part of a portfolio of results. Within a year we had mapped 80% of our hard copy records to the retention schedule and we had started destroying boxes in storage and we were starting to see cost savings.