Governing electronic content archives is a significant challenge for any organization. Data volumes are exploding, mobile and social computing are pervasive, and companies are moving to the cloud in droves. These factors are driving a shift from traditional, tactical, and legacy systems to new approaches capable of forming an intelligent understanding of all types of content. Read how organizations are replacing email-focused archives with a new breed of archive that can understand and govern all the latest forms of human-friendly information.

Over the past decade, requirements to comply with regulations, mitigate legal risk, and improve operational efficiency have driven tens of thousands of organizations to deploy archiving solutions for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, and other messaging systems. Although this is a mature market supported by a broad array of vendors, solution satisfaction rates lag, and enterprises report significant frustration with policy development, integrating with eDiscovery processes, and system shortcomings.

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Ah, the wonders of hindsight. If Enron's upper management had known their email would be involved in their downfall, they might have been more careful about what they wrote. If Morgan Stanley had been able to locate and produce all of their email in one case, they might have avoided a $15 million fine. Organizations large and small have faced problems stemming from email misuse or mishandling. Why is email so hard to manage?

Email Management in the Healthcare, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Industries:

AIIM has found that a third of organizations have no policy to deal with legal discovery and 40% might need to search back-up tapes to find emails that could be relevant to litigation. The AIIM survey also found that 84% would have no way to justify why emails of a certain age or type had been deleted. Only 19% have the facility to move important emails into a document or records management system, or a dedicated email management system, and 45% of respondents are still filing their important emails in personal Outlook folders.