Posts Tagged ‘Email Archiving’

I really like Mimosa’s NearPoint Retention and Classification Option (RCO) because it brings new value to email archiving without additional overhead.    Using RCO, Admins can define business rules to automatically set retention periods and apply specific tags to content. These tags can drive multiple actions such as marking a piece of content as potentially responsive to an ongoing investigation or legal matter, or explicitly declaring content a business record as part of the company file plan. 

One of my favorite features of Outlook is the ability to view web pages without leaving Outlook.  The feature is called ‘folder home page’ and it has been supported in Outlook since Outlook 2000.   Folder home page is especially useful for email archiving.  By simply clicking an ‘archive folder’ in Outlook,  users gain access to the email archive search application, which is a web-based application.   Now they can quickly search and browse archive information, and they never have to leave Outlook.

It’s easy to pass off eDiscovery as something only highly litigious or regulated companies have to be concerned about. The financial crisis seems to be reinforcing that assumption.

A recent eWeek article talks about companies (including Mimosa) awaiting a “litigation boom.” While this is not necessarily incorrect, what is not talked about is the many advantages that organizations get from having tools in house to conduct internal investigations.