By Melanie Turek, Nemertes Research Inc.

June 24, 2005

Two new announcements address a new area in the compliance arena: Web conferencing and Office documents. Nemertes’ latest research shows that although companies have focused their compliance efforts on industry- and regulation-specific data types (patient information, financials, etc.) and messaging (e-mail and to a smaller extent, IM), more IT executives are starting to consider solutions for archiving and retrieving other forms of unstructured data.

WebEx Retention Solutions, from conferencing vendor WebEx (NasdaqNM: WEBX http://www.webex.com/)), automatically captures meeting content, including chat, presentations, and recorded audio and video, then creates searchable indexes of the data. The content can be tied into a company’s storage network for archiving and compliance purposes.

Meanwhile, C2C, a privately held provider of e-mail archiving software for Microsoft Exchange, announced a partnership with Bridgehead Software, which makes file-archiving solutions, letting users take create an integrated archiving solution for e-mail and other file formats such as Office documents. The joint solution offers policy-driven archiving, quick retrieval, advanced search and discovery, and other integrated features.

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