Gimmal Records vs Rational Governance

Gimmal Records manages records across enterprise repositories without requiring content to be moved elsewhere. A centralized dashboard provides visibility into information held across those repositories, while file plans, retention schedules, record classes, rules, and triggers help classify information and manage it through its lifecycle to disposition. Record controls include declaration actions, legal holds, record properties, and time-stamped audit entries; audit reports can be filtered and exported. A legal hold can pause a record's lifecycle and prevent disposition or modification while the hold remains active. Disposition can use ongoing inbox approvals or optional batch processing based on predefined rules. Documented connectors include Box, SharePoint Server, Documentum, FileNet, SharePoint Online, and Universal File Share, although some SharePoint connectors are marked deprecated. Deployment options include Gimmal-hosted cloud, customer servers, and customer cloud servers such as Azure. On-premises requirements include Windows Server 2016 or later, SQL Server 2016 or later, HTTPS, and TLS 1.2. Pricing is on request.

Rational Governance is an enterprise platform for managing unstructured data where it already resides. It combines file analysis, records management, compliance, privacy, security, and discovery response with initial scans and full ingestion into a unified text and metadata index. Search draws on machine-learning output, regular expressions, text operators, metadata recognition, statistical sampling, and visualizations; the platform also includes supervised classification and unsupervised clustering. Administrators can automate preservation, collection, retention, deletion, movement, copying, monitoring, and alerts. Permissions govern access, and actions and system health checks can be audited and reported. Rational Governance runs behind a company firewall or on Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure, with encryption in transit and at rest, SAML 2.0, OAuth, and jurisdictional storage. It integrates with Rational Review and exports standard load-file formats. Pricing is on request; listed pricing approaches include data-volume, user, fixed-fee, and project-based.