IBM has announced new data protection and information management software to improve data compliance at firms.

IBM has unveiled the IBM Optim Data Redaction offering and a technology preview programme for IBM InfoSphere Business Information Monitor.

InfoSphere Business Monitor tracks the quality and flow of an organisation's information and provides real-time alerts of potential flaws. For example, if a health insurance company was analysing profit margins across different product lines, decision makers would immediately be alerted when a data feed was not successfully integrated.

Optim Data Redaction protects an organisation's information by automatically recognizing and removing sensitive content from documents and forms. For example, a customer's credit scores in a loan document could be hidden from an office clerk, while still being visible to a loan officer.

Optim Data Redaction is expected to be available in March. A technology preview programme for InfoSphere Business Information Monitor is expected to open in March.

More information available here.