FEDERATED COMPLIANCE MAPPING OF DISPARATE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

A federated compliance management system operating in a cloud computing environment imports a repository-specific retention policy from a source information system operating in an enterprise computing environment and converts, using a policy mapping definition, the repository-specific retention policy into a federated retention policy. The policy mapping definition contains attribute mappings for federated attributes common across a plurality of information systems of disparate types, repository-specific attributes that are specific to an information system, and, where applicable, phase-common attributes that are common for all phases of an information system as well as phase-repository-specific attributes that are configured for a specific phase. The federated retention policy is stored in the cloud computing environment for use by the federated compliance management system, for instance, as a base policy for creating a repository-specific retention policy for a target system.