Your social media, email, and mobile communication data contains valuable business information. Retain Unified Archiving and Retain Cloud Archiving provide a central location for you to archive, easily access, and audit the data both on premises and in the cloud. This ensures you don’t fall victim to the risks and costs associated with missing or deleted business data.
All electronic communication data, including email, social media, and mobile is archived into one unified data archive. This gives you the ability to search, publish, and perform eDiscovery from one central location with ease.
Archiving your current messaging data to Retain is easy. Just implement the new messaging system—such as Office 365—and then connect Retain to your new system. All of your data is then accessible without downtime or end user disruption.
Whether you choose to store data on-premise or in the cloud, you still have complete access to your archived data with Retain Unified Archiving. You also have simultaneous support of a mixed messaging platform environment. You can easily view your Exchange, Office 365, GroupWise®, Gmail, Bloomberg, Skype for Business, social media, and mobile data from one central archive.
Determine how you want to archive your email, mobile, and social media communication data with Retain’s configurable policies. These policies enable you to define what is archived based on various message features, including message source, status, mailbox type, and more.
Your messages are also archived in a platform-agnostic format, which means that no matter what email system you’re running, Retain supports it.
Retain supports the following email platforms:
Archived messages can be accessed and searched directly from within Outlook, Web Access, and GroupWise. Retain provides the ability to cache archived data based on specified criteria for offline access.
Retain Unified Archiving ensures that you can access your communication data anywhere, anytime by providing single sign-on. Whether your users are using Outlook, the Outlook Web App, the GroupWise Client, or GroupWise WebAccess, they can easily access your archived data.
Your archives are also easily accessible from multiple access points, including the end-user email client, the Retain mobile app, the browser-based web access client, and the Offline Archive Viewer. Plus, your archived data can be exported to a portable, stand-alone archive viewer.
Maintain oversight and compliance for Skype for Business/Lync communication. Retain Unified Archiving archives Skype for Business messaging in a single, central archive, along with email, social media, and mobile communication. Once archived, you have the ability to browse, search, perform eDiscovery, and gain oversight of Skype for Business communication data.
Retain features intelligent, granular archiving by taking advantage of the Microsoft Recoverable Items Folder and by using EWS impersonation. This means that archiving is not limited to journaling, though archiving via journaling is possible if required.
Retain Social provides archiving, monitoring, and data insights for your social media accounts. This enables organizations to review content in its original context and help determine the tone of all posts and pictures for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, and Google+. Your YouTube and Vimeo videos are also easily archived with Retain Social.
Retain Mobile delivers secure, encrypted messaging and archiving for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices for both personal and corporate owned devices. All your encrypted SMS/Text messages and dedicated business phone number data is archived into Retain’s central archive via the secure communications server. This eliminates the need to tether or sync the device because archiving is done in real time.
Archive all your mobile communication data—even on employee-owned devices. By archiving your mobile communication data, you ensure your employees are compliant, are protected against data leaks, and have access to the valuable corporate data contained on mobile devices.
Take control of your social media accounts and ensure your employees are remaining compliant with corporate policies. All your posts, videos, and message threads are available in one central archive which enables you to ensure all your accounts are regulated and compliant.
Social media messages are archived in their original message string, which enables messages to be easily searched and viewed in their original context.
Ensure fast and easy data retrieval with the High Performance Indexing Engine. The clusterable, high performance index is able to support an unlimited amount of search requests. Whether you’re using the engine for load balancing, failover format, or both, the engine can support it. The external engine is available in both a load balancing format or in a failover format to increase performance and eliminate redundancy.
Retain archives only one copy of a message and attachment. This dramatically reduces your storage costs as Exchange 2010, 2013, and Office 365 do not support single instance storage and drive up your storage cost exponentially.
Retain also features message deletion policies, which significantly increase storage space and server load on your email system. You can customize policies to delete email from the server after being archived, or after exceeding its retention age.
Your social media accounts, emails, and mobile communication contain valuable business data. Retain Unified Archiving provides a central location for you to easily access and audit the data. This ensures you don’t fall victim to the risks and costs associated with missing or deleted business data.
Increase system performance by archiving all your business communication data, including email. By archiving valuable yet outdated content, you reduce your storage needs and enable your system to run more freely. Your end-users and administrators can still access the valuable information they need, without slowing down your system.
Retain Unified Archiving features an advanced search tool that enables you to quickly and easily search through all your archived data so you can easily find what you’re looking for.
SMTP and Secure FTP forwarding of all messages based on your organization’s needs. Retain collects messaging data, including email, social media, and mobile, and sends it to other archiving systems. This allows organizations to continue to use legacy archiving systems, if needed.
Your organization needs to comply with archiving electronic communication regulations and guidelines. This includes not only archiving email, but also mobile and social media data. By complying with these regulations, you avoid fines, sanctions, and other penalties, as well as the risks involved with email and social media misuse.
Retain Unified Archiving helps you to meet the following regulations:
Retain Unified Archiving enables you to meet archiving regulations and requirements as well as fulfill your duty to preserve electronic information.
Take control of your social media accounts and ensure your employees are remaining compliant with corporate policies. All your corporate social media posts, videos, and message threads are available in one central archive which enables you to ensure all your accounts are regulated and compliant.
Archive all your mobile communication data, even on employee-owned BYOD devices. By archiving your mobile communication data, including text messages and phone call logs, you ensure your employees are compliant, are protected against data leaks, and have access to the valuable corporate data contained on mobile devices.
Increase system performance by archiving your business email data. By archiving your valuable email content, you reduce your storage needs, strain on your email server, and your system runs more freely. Your end users and administrators can still access the valuable information they need, without slowing down your system.
Retain offers quick and seamless migration from your legacy archive system to Retain Unified Archive using TDS. This solution works in tandem with Retain, to take the risks and complexities out of the migration process. And because it is fast and dependable, it simplifies the process of error resolution and can be relied upon to deliver maximum data integrity from source to target.
Why choose central unified archiving?
Retain is the only solution to archive all email, social media, and mobile data in one central archive. Retain includes built-in eDiscovery tools and provides easy access for users, administrators, legal, auditors, and other named users, all from one central location.
