With so many choices, how do you decide which email archiving system is right for your organization?

Everyone typically starts by gathering and documenting their own list of requirements. But this can take a significant amount of time and effort....only to end up with a list comprised mainly of standard features that are available out-of-the box in most of the mainstream products.

We've helped organizations of all sizes, and across many industries, to select an appropriate email archiving and compliance solution. Based on that experience, we developed a detailed 'standard feature questionnaire' to serve as your starting point in deciding which archiving products to consider. In addition, we found an excellent checklist from Waterford Technologies that will guide you in developing your archiving and compliance strategy.

These two documents provide you with a peer-defined starting point and thereby eliminate a lot of the risk and uncertainty in selecting an email archiving system. You are welcome to download these documents free of charge at the link below.
http://www.flexnet.com/whitepaperDL/email_archiving_checklist_WP.htm

I would be interested in hearing from you if you have found any other checklists for this process.


PS: If, after all your due diligence, you still have concerns that you might select the wrong system (or the wrong implementation partner), do not fear: We have a solution from TransVault which will eliminate the fear of getting locked into one vendor's archiving system. You can see our previous blog entry or read all about it at this link:

http://www.flexnet.com/TransVault/Email_Archive_Migration.htm

Email Archive Migration

TransVault

Over the last year a number of organizations told us they are quite dissatisfied with their current archiving solution…but they feel trapped because of the immense cost and time required to migrate to a new archiving system. We also encounter situations such as mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures that necessitate the extraction and migration of archived data.

For example, a group of Canadian law firms expressed concern with the impact Autonomy’s purchase of ZANTAZ/EAS is having on both ongoing customer support and the future development of the product.

Fortunately for them (and everyone else in a similar position), we recently uncovered a solution which will allow you to migrate from one archiving system to another with very little effort: TransVault.

TransVault is the only packaged software application that enables companies to migrate archived data from one system to another—for example when a company has outgrown a system; has a system that was never properly implemented; has multiple archiving systems as the result of mergers; or wishes to retire the hardware that houses their archives.

Basically, it extracts all the email from your current archiving platform so you can migrate it to a new email archiving system—quickly, painlessly, and cost-effectively. KVS/Veritas/Symantec, EAS/ZANTAZ, OpenText/IXOS, and EMC/Legato are some of the common platforms for which extraction and/or ingestion connectors exist.

Below you will find a url to our web site regarding TransVault. If you want to learn more about this software, please contact us with any questions you might have.

http://www.flexnet.com/TransVault/Email_Archive_Migration.htm

Wayne

Welcome to the Flexnet Blog

Welcome to the Flexnet Blog.

We will use our blog to share the information we uncover through our daily discussions with customers and vendors - industry trends, interesting facts and tips, and new (or evolving) technologies in the email and security marketplace.

In so doing, we will strive to meet four goals:

· The content will be accurate, relevant and timely;
· The format will be clear and concise for easy reading;
· We will include a bit of humor to make the information much more memorable and enjoyable; and
· We will publish new content as frequently as possible, with a minimum of one new posting per week.

We hope that you will enjoy our blog and find it useful in your daily working life.

Thanks and good reading.

Wayne