By September of 2007, European Union member states must begin holding data for between six months and two years, plus make that data available to law enforcement agencies for criminal investigations without undue delay. That mandate poses an array of challenges for businesses just like yours. First you must develop a cost-effective solution that allows you to retain all your phone and internet data, SMS, MMS, VOIP, and Skype data. That means creating a strategy to continue collecting data for your specific, legitimate business purposes; everything from network utilization to fraud, even before you move toward compliance.

Fortunately, Teradata and Capgemini enable you to comply with the EU directive with a flexible retention compliance solution that provides you with a single view of your circuit switched and IP traffic. It's a solution that allows you to not only collect traffic data for law enforcement reporting purposes, but also to continue to manage and use part of that same data to meet a wide range of your own business demands.