CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - May 4, 2015) - (Microsoft Ignite 2015) -- Actiance, the leader in compliance, security, archiving and eDiscovery for all critical business communications, announced today at Microsoft Ignite 2015 its support for Skype for Business and Yammer. With Actiance's extended support, companies can control, monitor and archive all their critical communications as they move to the cloud and as they adopt new communication channels. This announcement builds on Actiance's existing support for Office 365 applications, including Microsoft Exchange, and further establishes Actiance as the compliance partner of choice for Microsoft content.
"Employees are increasingly using consumer applications for business communications. With Skype for Business, Microsoft is now providing a managed network to deliver consistent enterprise-grade communications with the user experience workers love," said Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO, Actiance. "We are excited to continue our long history of partnership with Microsoft, and help customers adopt its office productivity tools, while still adhering to a wide range of legal and regulatory requirements."
Actiance now enables organizations to monitor, control and archive all conversations in Yammer and Skype for Business, including instant messaging, persistent chats, web conferences and voice calls. Customers can determine how much and what kind of content needs to be retained, and then set granular policies that capture only the most relevant content on premise or in the cloud. Actiance previously provided active compliance and archiving for Microsoft Lync professional users, and will continue to do so as companies transition to Skype for Business. Actiance also supports Office on-premise software including Exchange, SharePoint and Skype for Business.
Actiance helps large organizations, especially those in financial services, healthcare, pharma, energy and the public sector, meet their supervisory, recordkeeping and eDiscovery obligations for Office 365. This is particularly important as more organizations move to the cloud. Microsoft says there are now nearly 50 million Office 365 monthly active corporate users.
To improve their governance of Office 365, organizations can use Actiance Vantage to monitor communications to identify business critical content needing to be retained, and scan for compliance events needing review by a supervisor. They can then archive email and IM in Alcatraz, Actiance's context-aware cloud archive, to reduce the cost of eDiscovery by uniquely displaying dynamic social content in context. Actiance ensures chain of custody through tamper-proof capture and archiving to a WORM-compliant repository.
Support for Skype for Business will be available later this month, and support for Yammer will be available to all customers in summer 2015. Microsoft Ignite attendees are invited to stop by Actiance's booth #420 to learn more about Actiance's support for Office 365. Attendees can also enter to win a pair of virtual reality glasses that will be given away every day at the booth. For more details about the contest, visit http://tinyurl.com/ogb2khk.
Actiance will also present a session, "Reduce Your Compliance and eDiscovery Costs for Office 365, Exchange, Skype for Business, SharePoint", on Monday, May 4 at 12:35-12:55 p.m. CT in Lounge D, McCormick Place.
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Actiance® is a global leader in communication, collaboration, and social media governance for the enterprise. Its governance platform is used by millions of professionals across dozens of industries. With the power of communication, collaboration, and social media at their fingertips, Actiance helps professionals everywhere to engage with customers and colleagues so they can unleash social business. The Actiance platform gives organizations the ability to ensure compliance for all their communications channels. It provides real-time content monitoring, centralized policy management, contextual capture of content and smart archiving which improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of eDiscovery and helps protect users from malware and accidental or malicious leakage of information. Actiance supports 72+ leading social media, unified communications, collaboration, and IM platforms, including Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), Twitter, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Skype, IBM, (IBM), Jive (JIVE), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO), and Salesforce.com (CRM).
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