Symantec Enterprise Vault

Enterprise Vault Automated Classification Engine (A.C.E.) extends the existing capabilities of Enterprise Vault to include intelligent content-based categorization and tagging of email. Specifically, automated classification enables Enterprise Vault to apply rules towards emails and categorize messages according to content or context within the message.

Enterprise Vault Compliance Accelerator is a highly configurable add-on solution to Enterprise Vault. Compliance Accelerator allows organizations to perform easy, cost-effective supervisory review of email to ensure compliance with regulatory bodies such as NASD. Providing the framework to select and sample target email, manage its review by appropriate reviewers, and record the process for audit purposes, Compliance Accelerator dramatically decreases the cost and effort of email supervision, review and compliance demonstration.

Enterprise Vault Content Management Connector for EMC Documentum Retention Policy Services enables Documentum users to perform in-place retention management of Microsoft Exchange Server email messages stored in Enterprise Vault. Through direct integration, Documentum-based retention policies can be transparently applied to email messages which are declared as records and will be stored and managed solely by Enterprise Vault.

Enterprise Vault Content Management Connector for IBM Records Manager for DB2 enables IBM RM DB2 users to perform in-place retention management of Microsoft Exchange Server email messages stored in Enterprise Vault. Through direct integration, IBM based retention policies can be transparently applied to email messages which are declared as records and will be stored and managed solely by Enterprise Vault.

Enterprise Vault Content Management Connector for Open Text LiveLink enables Open Text users to perform in-place retention management of Microsoft Exchange Server email messages stored in Enterprise Vault. Through direct integration, Open Text based retention policies can be transparently applied to email messages which are declared as records and will be stored and managed solely by Enterprise Vault.

Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator extends the basic search functionality of Enterprise Vault to help lower the cost of data collection and facilitate the search and recovery process of archived items used for electronic discovery. The release of Discovery Accelerator provides significant enhancements delivering a more powerful and efficient search capability, configurable enforcement of items during a litigation holds and flexible export capabilities to simplify production.

Enterprise Vault File System Archiving provides "out-of-the-box" archiving support for any application that generates and stores information in standard files. File System Archiving saves critical space on file servers by seamlessly moving files to alternative storage devices without impact on the end-user. Archive files, by age, size or other criteria. Items are compressed, stored and indexed centrally by Enterprise Vault, and can be searched as well as retrieved transparently by users via optional placeholders.

Enterprise Vault integrates with IM Manager to provide a single point of storage and review for Instant Messages and E-Mail. Instant Messages are captured by an embedded version of Symantec IM Manager across 13 major protocols including Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS), IBM/Lotus Sametime, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Reuters and Google. IM Manager and Enterprise Vault ensure that all electronic messaging can be reviewed, filtered and stored according to policy.

Enterprise Vault software allows organizations to migrate all existing PST file data into the archive repository. Restoring user search and accessibility to this data enables the organization to effectively achieve PST eradication.

Enterprise Vault Public Folder Archiving archives individual public folders in Microsoft Exchange. Optionally, shortcuts are left behind allowing users to easily view or restore the original items transparently through Outlook or via extended web-based search functions.

Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino archives individual mailboxes to eliminate quotas, message size restrictions and simultaneously control message store growth. Admin-defined policies automatically archive email and attachments out of the email server and into online Enterprise Vault stores. Optionally, shortcuts are left behind allowing users to easily view or restore the original items transparently through Outlook, Notes, or via extended web-based search functions.

Enterprise Vault works seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino journaling in order to satisfy the corporate legal or regulatory retention requirements. Enterprise Vault can be configured to retain a copy of all email messages sent and received, ensuring that they are kept for the appropriate period of time required to meet regulatory or legal retention requirements.

Enterprise Vault 2007 provides native integration with Microsofts Rights Management Services so that encrypted messages that need to be archived are decrypted and indexed applying the necessary retention policies and enabling these messages to be searched and retrieved in the event of litigation or regulatory investigations.

Enterprise Vault supports archiving content from Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Fast-growing volumes of intellectual content on SharePoint Portal Server are effectively archived and managed by Enterprise Vault. Archive and offload older data to control the storage consumption of the SharePoint Portal Server. Newer, more frequently accessed content is retained within SharePoint with older, less frequently accessed content being moved to Enterprise Vault yet remaining available to the end-user.

Enterprise Vault Offline Vault provides laptop access to archived email even when not connected to the corporate network. Requiring low bandwidth, Enterprise Vault software can be configured to provide users with a local Vault stored on their PC hard drive. When a disconnected user tries to access an archived item via a shortcut, this item will be retrieved from the local Vault, ensuring that they have access to important content wherever it is located. At the same time the user's email is still archived to the corporate archive, so it is not vulnerable to loss or damage.

Enterprise Vault 2007 provides native integration with PGP so that encrypted messages needing to be archived are decrypted and indexed applying the necessary retention policies and enabling these messages to be searched and retrieved in the event of litigation or regulatory investigations.

Enterprise Vault User Classification Engine extends the email classification, capture and retention capabilities of Symantec Enterprise Vault to every user desktop. By providing a comprehensive, policy-based email capture process, it enables all business-critical and regulated emails to be classified as each item is created or read by the user. This helps enforce user retention policies more effectively by taking control of records where they are most vulnerable—under the control of employees on personal workstations.