Structured Data Management – is the function that controls an organization’s physical data assets throughout their lifecycles, from creation, update, and archival to deletion. This includes planning for, monitoring, and supporting the organization’s requirements for data storage and access.

Unstructured Data Management – is the function that controls an organization’s unstructured content (e.g., documents, records, reports, email, images, audio, web pages, and social media). This includes establishing policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, and rules around storage, retrieval, and purging of content and records.