KEY TAKEAWAYS The goal of this white paper is to demonstrate the critical importance of electronic archiving as a best practice for any organization to follow. Specifically:
• Archiving can be used as a primarily “defensive” capability to protect an organization from the variety of legal, regulatory and other external requirements that it will inevitably be called upon to satisfy.
• Archiving can also be used proactively to make employees more productive, enable a better understanding of how a business operates, and manage risk effectively.
• Archiving can provide hard cost savings that can be easily quantified, resulting in the ability to demonstrate a significant return-on-investment and a relatively short payback period.
• While email is the most common source of archived content, a number of other content types are becoming important to archive.
THE KEY DRIVERS FOR ARCHIVING ELECTRONIC CONTENT There are a variety of reasons that organizations archive their electronic content, although these will vary based on the industry that an organization serves, its risk tolerance, its corporate culture, the legal advice it chooses to follow, and the volume of electronic content it possesses. Figure 1 shows the reasons that organizations archive their electronic content and how these drivers have been changing over time. Further, we discuss the five primary drivers for archiving email and other content.
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An Osterman Research White Paper
Published January 2016
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The Growing Importance of Archiving
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