@27657 The biggest mistake is when a company reacts to a specific
event and purchases technology without fully understanding all of
the problems that they really need to solve. There are four or five
main problems that companies try to solve when it comes to
email archiving: regulatory requirements,
litigation/discovery problems, storage and management (often due
to the migration of large PST files to network servers), user
productivity impacted by time spent searching mail and managing
mailboxes. A few years ago, many companies reacted to the
Sarbanes-Oxley law by purchasing the first solution that they
found. But after they spent the money and installed the
solution, additional problems started to crop up that they had
not considered.
Unfortunately, a company will often see one of those issues
appear and implement a solution that answers that one problem
without considering the other potential issues. You should
completely understand all of the problems that you would
potentially want to solve before making an email archive purchase
decision.
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