While moving email to the cloud can be relatively straightforward, moving messaging and collaboration channels to Office 365 raises a significant number of questions pertaining to how those communications are captured and preserved for regulatory compliance and e-discovery purposes.
Office 365 offers native archiving features which require thorough analysis to determine if they are sufficient to meet each organization’s e-discovery and compliance workloads – or if they need to be complemented with third-party archiving solutions.
Ultimately, the evaluation of these factors and multiple stakeholder requirements can lead firms to different outcomes. Some firms will fully embrace Office 365 as their communications backbone, some will migrate specific applications selectively and over time, while other firms will opt for hybrid deployments with some applications moving to the cloud, while others remain on-premises.
This guide focuses on key considerations firms should address to make their migration more efficient and cost effective as well as how to deploy Office 365 while maintaining regulatory compliance.
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Smarsh helps financial services organizations get ahead – and stay ahead – of the risk within their electronic communications. Smarsh has established the industry standard for the efficient review and production of content from the diverse range of channels that organizations now use to communicate. With innovative capture, archiving and monitoring solutions that extend across the industry’s widest breadth of channels, customers can leverage the productivity benefits of email, social media, mobile/text messaging, instant messaging/collaboration, websites and voice while efficiently strengthening their compliance and e-discovery initiatives.
A global client base, including the top 10 banks in the United States and the largest banks in Europe, Canada and Asia, manages billions of conversations each month with the Smarsh Connected Suite. The company is headquartered in Portland, Ore. with nine offices worldwide, including locations in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.smarsh.com.
