Despite the increasing prominence of other communication methods, email still plays a central role in modern business. It’s used to share information, discuss decisions, send business documents and communicate changes. This brings us to the issue of email retention – emails are important documents which need to be retained just like any other business record. […]
How Automated Archiving Will Make Your IT Team’s Life Easier
As Tom Peters once said, “almost all quality improvement comes through the simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processing and procedures”. In automated archiving, the essence of automation is to increase efficiency, simplify email management procedures and improve both speed and accuracy. “Set it and forget it” is the golden principle of automation that is also […]
Email Archiving: Best Practices For Today’s Leading Enterprises [eBook]
Introduction Email archiving is an essential component of every IT environment. Whereas it used to be considered simply an additional benefit, archiving of email and other unstructured data has become a must these days, and for various reasons, including regulatory compliance and data storage concerns. The implementation of email archiving can appear daunting to any […]
Email Archiving in Education: What Features Work Best for K-12
Most K-12 districts are already informed about email archiving best practices (if yours isn’t, our team recently wrote an article about archiving being a top priority in the education industry). No matter the size of your district and the number of FOIA requests you get per year, having a proper email archiving solution is useful […]
Five IT Practices for Email Archiving
When we think about email archiving and its benefits, the first advantages that come to mind are observing regulatory compliance and being prepared for electronic discovery. Even in 2019, these two are bound to remain the chief drivers for companies to take on email archiving solutions. Due to data protection laws and privacy legislation, organizations […]
Why You Can’t Afford a Sloppy Email Retention Policy
For some businesses, the space between how they define their information retention policy and how they implement it can greatly affect the way they manage their electronically stored information. A recent survey has found that there’s a significant gap between the beliefs and practices of companies with information retention plans. Issues range from insufficient implementation […]
5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs to Archive Email and Social Media
A few years back, the prevalent opinion was that email archiving was suited only to some businesses ‒ those organizations belonging to one of the several strictly regulated industries such as healthcare, government, education or financial services. Nowadays, it’s clear that every company can benefit from archiving email and other communications data. Even if you […]
Expedite Archiving with Retention Policy Management
Your company or organization has finally decided to implement digital data archiving. Your appliance has been installed, all data have been migrated, and now what? Now you apply policies, of course! What is an email retention policy? An email retention policy is a company policy that defines how long email messages should remain in your […]
How the Automation of Archiving Rules and Policies Helps You with Legal Matters
We’ve all heard of company policies. They are procedures that establish the rules of conduct within an organization and outline responsibilities of both employees and employers. Some of these policies deal with the adherence to various state and industry-specific laws and regulations which include FOIA, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA etc. They must be put in place […]
Six Crucial Tips for an Effective Email Retention Policy
Email plays a vital role in modern business. It’s used to share ideas, discuss decisions and communicate changes. Without it, most modern businesses and agencies couldn’t function. This brings us to the issue of email retention. Emails are important documents which need to be retained just like any other important document. Email archiving solutions can […]
