Today’s business environment is dominated by Web 2.0 applications such as IM, P2P, social networking, voice, and video. Instant messaging in many organizations already overshadows email as the preferred form of business communication. IM conversations are business communications and are subject to litigation discovery and regulatory compliance. Organizations are under increasing pressure to implement strategies and architectures for instant messaging and unified communications message capture, archive and retrieval across the enterprise. In a number of industries, including financial services, government regulations now mandate long-term archival of IM data.

Datosphere for IM & Unified Communications is based on a deep level of integration with FaceTime’s IM Auditor solution which insures security, management and compliance for unified communications - from presence and instant messaging to conferencing and voice. The integrated solution will ensure that all IM and unified communications conversations, file transfers, and associated metadata can be logged, archived, discovered and retained.

The deep level of integration between IM Auditor and Datosphere provides clients with more robust E-Discovery options as Datosphere indexes a richer set of metadata and IM transcript information than other solutions. Clients benefit directly in e-Discovery or internal investigation scenarios as they can more quickly ascertain the context and appropriateness of electronically stored information to the case at hand thus saving time, effort and money.

• Ensures that business communication is properly captured, secured and retained
• Compliance based IM archiving supporting:
  
  Enterprise Instant Messaging: Microsoft LCS/OCS, IBM Sametime, Antepo, Jabber, Parlano MindAlign
  Professional Community Networks: Bloomberg, Communicator Inc., Pivot Solutions
  Web Conferencing: WebEx
  Public IM: Windows Live Messenger, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, GoogleTalk & more
• Single point of capture, storage, retention, search and access for Email, IM and Files
• Lowers the costs and risks associated with E-Discovery
• Forensic security model and comprehensive audit trail
• Seamless self-service user search, access and recovery of IM transcripts

IM Archiving

Datosphere for IM & Unified Communications helps organizations to avoid the blind spot in their business communication by providing 100% guaranteed accurate binary archiving of a wide range of real-time communication platforms, including user sign on/off history and multi-party chat participation. Full text indexing of archived IM conversations provides fast and seamless end-user search, access and retrieval. Datosphere’s centralized and unified archive for IM, Email and Files provides centralized management and security of ESI.

EDiscovery

As IM is clearly “business communication” it is discoverable. Datosphere’s robust modern search, index technology and E-Discovery functionality helps you to make informed decisions regarding the merits of a legal case or investigation and can significantly reduce the time, cost and effort required to respond to discovery requests.

Storage Management

Organizations can centrally set and enforce flexible retention policies to control the size and rate of growth of the archive. Storage of IM transcripts can be consolidated thus simplifying the lifecycle management of ESI.

Compliance

Datosphere provides a tamper resistant archive, native encryption, granular role definition and a comprehensive audit trail to ensure that ESI remains secure and can only be accessed by those with the proper authorization.