17.1 Content Federation Services for Content Manager  OnDemand and IBM Enterprise Records overview 366  IBM Content Manager OnDemand Guide IBM FileNet Content Federation Services enables organizations to access content from  numerous heterogeneous repositories anywhere in the enterprise and federate this  information to provide a single enterprise source for critical business content. Content  Federation Services for Content Manager OnDemand enables enterprises to perform  federation, search, retrieve, and records management functions across Content Manager  OnDemand repositories.  IBM Enterprise Records positions your business to provide legally compliant records that  meet government regulations at the time of inquiry that follow your corporate record policy file  plan.  Content Manager OnDemand handles a high volume of document ingestion to the system,  typically of a static nature, such as credit card or bank statements. Each document ingestion  might contain thousands of individual documents or pages. Content Manager OnDemand  offers a retention feature so that you can set the document retention for a fixed period at the  document ingestion time, for example, an investment company that applies a simple retention  policy of eight years to all of their customer statements.  Content Manager OnDemand does not apply an event-based retention policy that is based  on, for example, the date that the customer closed an account. In this scenario, the clock  does not begin the eight-year period until the customer closes the account. By enabling  records federation services by using Content Federation Services for Content Manager  OnDemand, you can manage Content Manager OnDemand content in a manner that is  consistent with your organization’s records retention policies. When Content Manager OnDemand content is federated and declared as a record in  Enterprise Records, Content Manager OnDemand content can be tied to dynamic retention  policies, such as account closure, policy termination, contract execution, or any other event.  In these circumstances, records federation services can allow your organization to retain  content for a certain amount of time, starting on the date of the event. Companies must  design their policies carefully to manage a large collection of data correctly when the  company deals with various regulatory policies and litigation. When it is time to expire data, with federated and declared content by using Content  Federation Services for Content Manager OnDemand, Content Manager OnDemand can  delete the original load (which contained multiple documents) and at the same time reingest  those documents that must be retained. When you use Enhanced Retention Management, you enable the holding documents  immediately and prevent expiration. Although this feature is powerful, it does not position your  business to make a Content Manager OnDemand captured report or document a compliant  record to meet government regulations. You must enable the feature that meets your business  requirements: A situation might exist where both features are enabled because of many different  line-of-business requirements. GLYPH<SM590000> Use Enhanced Retention Management in Content Manager OnDemand to hold  documents and prevent expiration. GLYPH<SM590000> Use Enterprise Records to make documents into compliant records and to enable them for  event-based expiration.