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Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Information Archiving

Published: 24 January 2022

Summary

EIA products support the archive, e-discovery, compliance and analytics use cases, and vendor solutions that manage digital communications and application/user-generated content vary widely. I&O leaders should use this research to determine which vendor(s) align with their organizational needs.

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Key Findings
  • Artificial intelligence/machine learning is foundational for market-leading enterprise information archiving solutions, differentiating based on the maturity of data models and the ability to adapt to organization requirements.

  • Workstream collaboration tools differ from email communications, introducing new types of dialogue behavior and abilities, such as reactions, edits and delete posts. Widely adopted by all industries, organizations are establishing policies for their compliant use and exploring opportunities to extract business intelligence.

  • Many vendors provide sufficient product features and operational capabilities to support multiple EIA use cases.

  • With the increased growth in data from new content sources, data reduction and life cycle management requirements

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  • Archive360 Archive2Azure
  • Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
  • Global Relay Archive
  • Jatheon Cloud Archiving
  • Micro Focus Digital Safe
  • Microsoft 365 Compliance
  • Mimecast Cloud Archive
  • Proofpoint Enterprise Archive
  • Smarsh Enterprise Archive
  • Solix Technologies Common Data Platform
  • Veritas Technologies Enterprise Vault.cloud
  • ZL Tech Unified Archive
  • Admin/Data Services/Platform
  • Search/Index
  • Policy Management
  • Digital Communication Content
  • Application/User-Generated Content
  • E-Discovery
  • Supervision/Surveillance
  • AI/ML
  • Archive
  • Compliance
  • E-Discovery
  • Analytics

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