New IBM partnership delivers improved communications compliance

Additional reliance on social network platforms and social communication channels creates regulatory issues for enterprises.

This means that social media and communications content are becoming an increasingly popular target of opposing counsel in legal issues involving eDiscovery.

The problem for many companies is that they simply don't know what, if any, of these social communications are being used within their organization. As a result they're not actively capturing, managing or archiving all communications and social content -- potentially placing them at a higher risk of non-compliance and legal jeopardy.

In response to these issues IBM is announcing a partnership with real-time monitoring specialist Actiance. This will allow IBM to offer the Actiance Platform as part of its Information Lifecycle Governance (ILG) product portfolio to enable their customers to more effectively address the issues related to migrating their current technology solutions to the cloud.

"Unified communications, social media and cloud archiving are changing enterprise communications and how companies must control and manage those conversations so they are in compliance," says James Schellhase, worldwide business leader, IBM Information Lifecycle Governance Group. "With the Actiance Platform, IBM customers are now able to actively enforce and centrally manage policies to safely and securely govern all their communications data in the cloud at a lower cost".

Actiance's active compliance and archiving platform provides deeper insight into archived communications through the use of powerful cloud-based analytics. It will allow IBM customers to govern all of their enterprise communications across 70 plus different channels, including email, messaging, collaboration and social content, under one cloud platform.

This combined with IBM's deep expertise in the ILG space will enable companies across all industries, including financial services, manufacturing and insurance, to reduce the cost and risk of information governance and create and enforce policies for all business-critical communications.

You can find out more about the Actiance Platform on the company's website.

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