Smarsh is a household name in the archiving industry, providing archiving, compliance and information management services to the financial industry and government sector. And in 2019, it finished first in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving. However, despite its cited completeness of vision, Smarsh doesn’t work for all companies. Its complex, often vague […]
The 2021 Quick Guide to SOX Compliance and Email Archiving
When it was enacted in 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (often abbreviated to Sarbox or SOX) was a landmark piece of legislation that heralded many changes to how businesses operate and preserve files. This federal law set new, broader requirements for all public companies in the United States, but included a number of provisions that apply […]
Email and Social Media in Employee Investigation & HR Ediscovery
Since most organizations implement email and social media archiving solutions to automate regulatory compliance and speed up open data request response times, they often forget the crucial component that is entwined with all the reasons behind archiving ‒ the human factor. Employee investigation can be the result of various HR-related scenarios that require the HR […]
Why You Must Archive Mobile Communications in 2021
While business communication has moved past the usual means to mobile devices, many companies, especially in regulated industries, are reluctant to resort to these tools. By doing so, they are missing out on being nimble, something that’s been essential for efficient decision-making. However, these companies are right to reason that there is a risk that […]
Email Archive Migration: Challenges, Best Practices and Solutions
Organizations have been archiving email for two decades, which means that 90% of companies already have some kind of an email archiving system in place. But what happens when a company decides to change the archiving provider or upgrade to a new solution? How can you future-proof (and continue using) your existing archived data? What […]
Social Media Archiving in Regulated Industries: Why It Matters in 2021
Social media constitute official business records which means companies have to pay close attention to the type of information they share through their official accounts. This is particularly important for organizations in regulated industries, where a lack of social media compliance can lead to data leakage, intellectual property loss, hefty fines and ruined reputation. To […]
Office365 Email Archiving: 7 Major Disadvantages (Updated for 2021)
In 2011, Microsoft designed the Office 365 cloud platform and centralized its existing services including Exchange, SharePoint and Skype. Six years later, Office 365 revenue overtook that of conventional license sales of Microsoft Office software for the first time. Today, adoption rates remain strong. As organizations flock towards O365 as a one-stop shop for the […]
Ten Things To Know About Search in Email Archiving & Ediscovery
In email archiving and ediscovery, search is the functionality you’ll be using on a daily basis, which is why you need it to be powerful, fast and precise and contain various search options. This article zooms on several search-related features you should explore and test when evaluating your next email archiver and when collecting data […]
Email Archiving Benefits: 20 Reasons to Archive Email
Email archiving is 20 years old, but there are still companies that are reluctant to adopt it. The rationale is often monetary – for small and medium-sized businesses in unregulated industries, an archive often seems like a costly and inessential project. Since email archiving is mandated in regulated industries such as healthcare and pharmaceutical, financial, […]
Ediscovery and Email Archiving in 2021: Is Your Organization Ready?
Electronic discovery, better known as eDiscovery, is the process in which any electronically stored information (ESI) is requested, searched, located and produced with the intent of using it in a court case as evidence, for government investigations, or as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. Here’s what a typical eDiscovery process looks like: […]
