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Posted by Benjamin Wright (August 03, 2010)
| Tags : epolicy Workshop, government, email policy, case study, M+Archive, records retention
The customer had previously purchased Messaging Architects’ M+Archive product because experience from a recent lawsuit had proved they needed a reliable way to preserve, manage and search email. However, the customer had been unable to implement the product due to a lack of a policy on email retention and destruction.
Earlier internal discussions on how to draft a policy had made little progress, and the IT department worried that nothing was in progress to make a policy come into existence. The IT department knew that it possessed no authority to impose a policy on their own. They needed a breakthrough.
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Posted by Pierre Chamberland (July 30, 2010)
| Tags : unified messaging, IP telephony, high definition video, media, collaboration, asymmetrical messaging, calendaring, voice tags
As part of a recent client interaction and whiteboarding session, I was asked to express my views about the benefits that Unified Messaging might deliver in terms of enhanced collaboration. In my reply, I acknowledged that we are well into the era of Unified Messaging (UM) as close to 1/3 of enterprises are in the process of deploying infrastructure to unite telephone and email systems. This trend started off as a way to lower operational costs and deploy IP telephony, but has now grown far beyond its original scope. The future of Unified Messaging will enable an entirely new class of rich and interactive collaboration as well as much smarter infrastructure management. High definition video is certainly only a few steps behind voice as the next logical media-stream we will add to our networks.
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Posted by Debbie Howlett (July 23, 2010)
| Tags : IT projects, project management, risk management, planning, IT budget, contracts
A few days ago, I posted an article in our blog that was written by the CEO of Messaging Architects, Pierre Chamberland, on how CFOs and CIOs can help to minimize the risks associated with major IT projects by understanding the importance of project management. Entitled The 10.5 Essential Steps of Successful IT Projects, the article created a lot of buzz around the water cooler and led one of our Account Managers to forward me the following article as a potential companion piece to Pierre’s earlier submission. The article, written by James Flowers, includes a few more steps to help you make the most of your IT budget.
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Posted by Benjamin Wright (July 21, 2010)
| Tags : epolicy Workshop, government, email policy, case study, M+Archive, records retention
Messaging Architects has held its ePolicy workshop in numerous, diverse organizations throughout 2009 and 2010. One such organization was a sizable state government agency, which had approximately 5000 email users. One year prior, the agency had purchased Messaging Architects' M+Archive product, but it had not implemented it beyond the pilot stage because the agency had not settled on an email retention policy. Although stakeholders within the agency had discussed policy, they had not reached consensus.
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