Most business owners today are aware of certain responsibilities they have for email archiving under compliance legislation, but aren’t sure what the point of email compliance is or how to ensure it. This blog post is a good starting point if you want to learn more about regulatory compliant email…

As Tom Peters once said, “almost all quality improvement comes through the simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processing and procedures”. In automated archiving, the essence of automation is to increase efficiency, simplify email management procedures and improve both speed and accuracy. …

Despite the increasing prominence of other communication methods, email still plays a central role in modern business. It’s used to share information, discuss decisions, send business documents and communicate changes. …

Smarsh is a household name in the data archiving industry, providing archiving, compliance and information management services to the financial industry and government sector. And in 2020, it was named leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving for the sixth consecutive year. However, despite its cited completeness…

Since most organizations implement email and social media archiving solutions to automate regulatory compliance and speed up open data request response times, they often forget the crucial component that is entwined with all the reasons behind archiving ‒ the human factor. Employee investigation can be the result of various HR-related…

Email archiving is 20 years old, but there are still companies that are reluctant to adopt it. The rationale is often monetary — for small and medium-sized businesses in unregulated industries, an archive often seems like a costly and inessential project. Since email archiving is mandated in regulated industries such…

Social media has become the norm in business communication, even in highly regulated industries. And it is recognized by law as official business records, on par with traditional forms of communication such as email. As a result, social media affects the ediscovery process, as companies need to address another form…

In today’s digital age, when data privacy laws and compliance regulations are changing fast, enterprise information archiving has become the norm ‒ best practice for some, a regulatory necessity for others. But what are the digital channels that have to be retained for compliance? Is email dying and, if yes…

Having an effective ediscovery system in place is a saving grace for many companies, especially in cases of litigation and maintaining compliance to various federal and industry email retention laws and electronic data retention best practices. A Few Words About Email Quotas Email quotas are common in business. They’re used to manage the amount of data…