IAR is the information asset register built for the New Zealand and Australian public sector. Identify your information, classify it against your disposal authority, and govern it with named stewards, all in one connected register.
Most agencies cannot answer a simple question: what information do we actually hold, and who is responsible for it?
Holdings live in scattered spreadsheets and SharePoint lists that nobody fully trusts and nobody owns.
Disposal decisions are deferred for years because no one can map assets back to the disposal authority with confidence.
Stewardship is tied to individuals who change roles, so accountability disappears the moment someone leaves.
Regulators get a fragmented picture, reassembled by hand, long after it would have been useful.
IAR organises your holdings through a clear four-level object model. Every asset sits in a class, every class belongs to a disposal schedule, and every schedule rolls up to the entity that owns it, so the register reads cleanly from the boardroom to the back office.
The organisational units, functions, or business areas that own and produce information.
→The disposal authorities and retention schedules that govern how long information is kept.
→The classes within each schedule that group like information together with shared rules.
→The individual information assets, each linked to a steward, a value, and any open issues.
→The ideal Information Asset Register is a living process, not a static document. IAR supports the full cycle, from first inventory through continuous stewardship to defensible disposal.
Build the inventory of what you hold. Import existing registers, capture new assets, and locate them by position and place.
Map every asset to a class in your disposal authority, so retention, value, and disposal triggers are explicit and consistent.
Assign stewardship to positions, raise issues against assets, and track the actions that close them through to resolution.
Replace the scattered spreadsheets with one trusted register. Classify against your disposal authority, assign stewardship to positions, and run your Information Management Maturity Assessment and prepare for your Public Records Act reporting in the same place.
See your whole regulated population from one place: every entity's register, a live maturity distribution, a consolidated out-of-cycle approvals workflow, and an evidenced view of the stock, flow, and cost of the national information holding.
Full support for the recordkeeping and disposal obligations placed on New Zealand public offices and local authorities.
Aligned to the National Archives of Australia framework for managing and disposing of Commonwealth information.
A record-of-processing equivalent, so personal information holdings sit within the same register and governance.
Run the Information Management Maturity Assessment, set targets, and carry the resulting action plan inside IAR.
We will load your disposal authority, migrate your existing register, and have your stewards working in IAR, so you start from a complete picture rather than a blank page.