Collaboration Loop
By Melanie Turek
7/19/05

Two recent announcements address new targets in the compliance arena—Web conferencing and Office documents—and anyone implementing collaboration in the enterprise should pay attention. Nemertes’ latest research shows that although companies have focused their compliance efforts on industry- and regulation-specific data types (patient information, financials, etc.), more IT executives are starting to consider solutions for archiving and retrieving other forms of information, including semi-structured and unstructured data.

WebEx Retention Solutions, from conferencing vendor WebEx, 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. Although the solution is being marketed to financial services companies, there’s no reason other organizations can’t take advantage of its features and functionality as they address Sarbanes Oxley and other regulations, or simply their own corporate governance policies.