Message archiving software: new report

January 12, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Online Collaboration Tools (42)

Message archiving software can help organizations and teams achieve regulatory and corporate policy compliance, reduce the cost of eDiscovery, and reduce storage costs through mailbox management. The top message archiving software vendors include Computer Associates, EMC, IBM, Open Text, Symantec and ZANTAZ. Forrester have evaluated their strengths and weaknesses across 74 criteria in a newly published research report: (December 05) Message Archiving Software, Q4 2005

The result:

Symantec and Computer Associates come out on top in the report because they meet multiple business requirements with top-notch functionality and provide message archiving in the context of a broader solution — in their cases, information life-cycle management.

In a previous article, Technology in the workplace: a recipe for legal trouble, we read that although 31 percent of employees use instant messaging at work only about 20 percent of companies have issued a policy addressing the content and use of instant messaging.

Note:
Electronic discovery (also called e-discovery or ediscovery) refers to any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case

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BIOTEAMS book just published

March 5, 2008 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

You followed the blog; you listened to the podcasts; you watched the movies; now read the book! "Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Most Successful Designs" is now available from Amazon.

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