Data residency
A requirement that data be stored and processed within a specific geographic location, typically to comply with legal, regulatory, or contractual obligations.
In more detail
Data residency refers to where data physically lives and is processed. Laws, regulations, and customer contracts increasingly require that certain data, personal data in particular, stay within a specific country or region. Residency is about geography specifically, distinct from broader questions of who can access the data or how it is governed.
The requirement shapes architecture and vendor choice. A business subject to residency rules has to ensure its systems, and the vendors those systems rely on, keep the relevant data in the permitted locations. Getting this wrong can mean regulatory penalties or breach of contract, so it is a real constraint rather than a preference.
Where this shows up at Ceven
Data residency is a constraint any platform handling regulated data must respect. Because Ceven is not a system of record and orchestrates around the customer's own authoritative systems, the residency of the underlying data stays governed by those systems, while Ceven's actions on it remain recorded in the audit trail for verification.