Rational Governance
Rational Governance is an enterprise platform for managing unstructured data in place and in real time, with tools for risk control, operational efficiency, …
What Rational Governance is
Rational Governance is an enterprise platform for managing unstructured data in place and in real time, with tools for risk control, operational efficiency, and enterprise knowledge. It scans data and builds a unified index of text and metadata for searching, records management, compliance, privacy, security, and discovery response. Search can use machine-learning output, regular expressions, text operators, metadata recognition, and visualizations; the platform also supports supervised classification and unsupervised clustering. Administrators can automate actions such as preserving, collecting, retaining, moving, copying, or deleting data, and can monitor and alert. Access is permission-governed, with auditable actions and system health checks. Rational Governance can run behind a company firewall or on Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure, with encryption in transit and at rest, SAML 2.0 and OAuth. It integrates with Rational Review and can export standard load-file formats. Pricing is on request and may be data-volume-based, user-based, fixed-fee, or project-based.
Good
- Supports retention rules and legal holds.
- Automates data lifecycle actions.
- Offers firewall or cloud deployment.
- Integrates with Rational Review.
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request.
- Configuration can be based on data volume, users, or projects.
Who it suits
It is built for legal, compliance, privacy, IT, and security teams in enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions. Organizations managing unstructured data and retention or legal-hold processes may find its controls relevant.
Verdict
Rational Governance brings indexing, search, policy controls, and auditing together for organizations managing unstructured data. Its custom pricing and deployment options mean teams should clarify their requirements and pricing basis with Rational.
Plans and prices
From Rational Governance's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Custom pricing | Priced on request | data-volume-based · user-based · fixed-fee & project-based |
The facts
Each one read from Rational Governance's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access and audit
- Users require affirmative access governed by permissions, and every action plus system health checks can be audited, reported, customized, scheduled, and automated.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Capabilities
- The platform provides file analysis, records management, compliance, discovery response, privacy, and security capabilities.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Data indexing
- It performs initial data scans and full ingestion that creates a unified text and metadata index.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Deployment and security
- Rational Governance can run behind a company firewall or with Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure, with encryption in transit and at rest, SAML 2.0 and OAuth, jurisdictional storage, and stated HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, DoD SRG, FISMA, and FedRAMP compliance.checked 1 Oct 2026
- eDiscovery integration
- It integrates with Rational Review and can export data to standard load-file formats for other review platforms.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Prebuilt agents support Dropbox, Apple, Google Drive, Alfresco, Gmail, NetApp, Windows, Office 365, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, and file shares.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Performance
- Rational Enterprise reports an indexing speed of 30+ TB per day and 200K+ custodians governed.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Policy engine
- Administrators can automate data lifecycle actions including preserve and hold, collect and export, retain and delete, move and copy, and monitor and alert.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Rational Governance manages unstructured data in place and in real time for risk control, operational efficiency, and enterprise knowledge.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Search and analytics
- Dynamic searching uses machine-learning output, regular-expression matching, text operators, Active Directory integration, metadata recognition, statistical sampling, and visualizations.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Service availability
- Rational Enterprise says its global presence provides someone available 24/7/365 when problems arise off-hours.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Rational provides information experts and senior consultants, with one dedicated contact throughout a project.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Target users
- The platform is built for legal, compliance, privacy, IT, and security teams at enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions.checked 1 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2006checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- New York, New York, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Machine learning
- Supervised SVM classification and unsupervised clustering are integrated into the platform.checked 1 Oct 2026
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