Research and Markets: Email Archiving Market Trends, 2004-2007
A practical guide to diverse email marketing
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2004-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com) has announced the addition of Email Archiving Market Trends, 2004-2007 to their offering.
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This report analyzes the North American market for messaging archiving, providing the results of two surveys that were conducted specifically for this report during May 2004. The report also offers a variety of other information from additional surveys and secondary research, as well as information on key requirements for messaging archiving systems. This report analyzes the market for messaging archiving not only from a compliance perspective, but also from the perspective of the improved storage management, knowledge management and assistance with legal discovery that a messaging archiving system can provide.
Key Findings Presented in this Report
- Most enterprises do not preserve email and instant messages in an archiving system, instead relying on simple tape backups to preserve content from their messaging systems.
- Current practices by most non-regulated enterprises make it very difficult to recover old email during legal discovery, during a regulatory agency's audit or simply when a user is looking for old content. However, during the past three years, the IT departments of nearly three in four enterprises surveyed has been required to search through backup tapes in response to a formal legal, HR or other request. A large percentage of enterprises have been ordered by a court or regulatory body to produce employee email.
- Compounding the problem is the fact that message stores are growing rapidly, increasing 24% in volume between May 2003 and May 2004.
- Although only 15% of enterprises surveyed employ a messaging archiving system, 62% of enterprises view such a system as either 'desirable' or 'very desirable', implying that there is significant unmet demand for messaging archiving capability.
- Most enterprises have no policies or systems in place to prevent users from deleting messaging system content that is important for the enterprise to retain on a long-term basis.
- Less than one-half of enterprises have an email retention policy in place, despite the fact that virtually all enterprises use email for business applications.
- Most enterprises that are not heavily regulated, such as organizations outside of the financial services industry, are not satisfying the minimum data retention periods imposed by the array of statutory requirements for records retention.
- For the most part, enterprises view their preparedness for regulatory compliance to be inadequate.
This report contains detailed analysis under the following headings:
The Current State of Email and IM in the Enterprise
Current Backup and Archiving Practices
Enterprise Plans for Archiving
Key Criteria in Selecting an Archiving Solution
End User Email
Practices
Vendor Rankings and Information
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