Content Collection and Archival

Data continues to grow at a dizzying pace and shows no signs of slowing down in the near future. Companies struggle with effectively identifying and archiving useful information due to sheer size and complexity. For example, a company may have an enterprise content management (ECM) system, e.g. running IBM Content Manager, with millions of assorted documents in it. Some of the documents, e.g. contacts, are easily identified as critical and need to be archived. Other pieces of information may be important but only a single copy needs to be archived. Without content collection and archival software, like IBM’s Content Collector (ICC), the costs of backing up all data will eventually outpace the budgets of most IT departments. ICC, and other enterprise products, allow companies to identify unique pieces of valuable information contained in documents stored on network file shares, content found in emails, and documentation in various enterprise applications like Microsoft SharePoint and SAP applications.

BluTek consultants work with your IT department and your business users to understand your processes, help identify critical content collection points and understand your company’s legal and compliance requirements. By better understanding your company, our consultants can customize the collection and archival policies to fit your needs. By properly designing and implementing a content and collection solution, your organization can realize the following benefits:

• Automatically collect and archive messages based on policies defined by administrators
• Provide a unified searching interface to access current and archived information
• Reduce IT costs by managing information based on business value
• Manage legal and compliance requirements without further collection