Akonix's L7 Enterprise Instant Messenger Management Solution and  Instant 

Messenger (IM) Compliance Manager

Product Benefits of L7 Enterprise:

Akonix L7 Enterprise is the only true enterprise-class IM management solution to bring security, real-time management, reporting and regulatory compliance to unsupervised and uncontrolled enterprise IM usage. L7 provides IT organizations with the enterprise management and integration needed to leverage the productivity benefits of IM while addressing the business and security risks associated with its use.

L7 Enterprise architecture utilizes plug-in Protocol Adaptors, each of which detects and manages a set of protocols. L7 Enterprise public IM protocol support includes - AOL, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! with optional connectors for integrating enterprise IM traffic from Reuters, Microsoft Live Communications Server and IBM Lotus Messaging.L7 offers critical capabilities that enable the continued use of public IM for business, allowing your employees to safely and effectively communicate with customers, suppliers and trading partners. 

Capabilities such as real-time policy enforcement, real-time management, logging and archiving and monitoring capabilities allow creation and enforcement of virtually any required corporate policy. Our customer ensure regulatory compliance, drive employee productivity and enable close supervision of critical communications via IM without any change in user behavior or client software.

• Manages authorized IM use

• Prevents inappropriate and noncompliant communications via content filtering

• Virus scans or blocks file transfers

• Integrates with major corporate directories organization.

• Logs, Archives and Reports on all enterprise IM activity

• Integrates with email archiving and enterprise IM systems\

• Dynamically updates fast changing protocol definitions

• Provides high-availability via native clustering
  

Compliance Manager Module Benefits provides a simple, easy-to-implement option for supervisory requirements in a wide variety of regulatory environments. Some capabilities include:

• Meeting SEC, NASD, Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO, DOD, HIPAA I M compliance requirements. 

• Akonix Compliance Manager is a is a plug-in module for L7 Enterprise that provides complete web-based compliance work flows for archived messages. This includes enabling access for internal and external reviewers, auditors and supervisors and tracking all activity, including review, annotation, escalation and audit of IM conversations.

• Enforce "Chinese Wall" policies by allowing Reviewers, Auditors, and External Auditors to only      access approved conversations or annotations, based on their roles or responsibilities

• Search message archives for messages that have specific patterns, keywords, or that have triggered a policy set by the administrator (search keywords are automatically highlighted for efficiency)

• Annotate individual messages or complete conversations, and mark them as reviewed

• Escalate individual messages or conversations to supervisors and track escalation performance

• Review and manage audit trails showing all of the touch points of conversations, annotations, and reviews

• Allow internal auditors to annotate reviewed messages, and search annotations

• Generate comprehensive reports on statistics, use, and performance to demonstrate compliance processes to regulatory agencies

• Reduce legal risks by retaining and recovering copies of e-mails. 

• Secure centralized control and access. 

• Improve awareness of legal exposure. 

• Low Total Cost of Ownership –easy to implement and manage. 

• Interfaces with leading storage management applications. 

• Flexible and adaptable structure, economical and scalable from tens to thousands of users.

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Akonix L7 Enterprise

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Links to Archiving solutions for Instant Messaging(IM)