IBM recently announced a new family ofproducts for archiving email, classifying content and searching multipleinformation sources -- independent of where and how the content wascreated, processed and archived. IBM Content Collection and Archivingproducts are designed to help clients take back control and unlock thebusiness value of their content, while enforcing regulatory compliance andoperational policies and reducing total cost of ownership.

The new family of products deliver comprehensive Content Collection andArchiving capabilities that make information more accessible, manageableand, ultimately, usable by making it easier to locate and analyzeinformation and to extract knowledge and insights.

IBM Content Collection and Archiving offerings will help clients movebeyond e-mail archiving to provide organizations with comprehensivemanagement capabilities for virtually all their business content, includingfile systems, Lotus Quickr, Microsoft SharePoint, instant messages andother information. These products offer more advanced functionality tomeet new legal eDiscovery and records management requirements as well asde-duplication and integration with records retention services, helping toreduce storage and electronic discovery costs.

Yorkshire Water, a subsidiary of Kelda Group, manages the collection,treatment and distribution of water, supplying around 1.24 billion litersof drinking water each day. With a combined IBM and Neocol UK offering,Yorkshire Water is using IBM software to help them integrate e-mail contentwith other documents and facilitate retention and archiving with associatedstorage management.

"IBM's Content Collection and Archiving offerings will help us to simplifytasks, including managing email archives and records management, whileleveraging our existing content management platform to manage and controlcontent over the long run," said Ian Marshall, Senior Technical Analyst,Yorkshire Water.

"Today, many organizations' needs have outgrown the limited business valueof e-mail archiving as they seek better control and management of theircontent in support of their business goals," said Ken Bisconti, vicepresident, product and strategy, IBM Enterprise Content Management. "OurContent Collection and Archiving products will help enable clients makemore complete use of all their information and content, providingsimplified, consistent usability while reducing costs and improvingproductivity for both business users and IT."

IBM Content Collection and Archiving Family

IBM's Content Collection and Archiving products are based on a modular,extensible architecture and are designed to collect content from nearly anysource, including email or file attachments, enhance the content byapplying modular tasks, and mange the content in an Enterprise ContentManagement (ECM) repository to be controlled-- consistently andcost-effectively.

IBM Content Collector and Archiving is based on a secure and scalable IBMECM platform, and is pre-built to take advantage of IBM ECM capabilitiessuch as advanced classification, records management, and eDiscovery searchand analytics to fully optimize the lifecycle of compliant informationmanagement.

IBM Content Collector and Archiving plays a key role in implementing IBM'svision for a new Information Infrastructure in which key technologies andservices tackle the massive growth and mobility of data, skyrocketingenergy use, growing security concerns and more demanding consumers with thecompliance, availability, reliability and scalability clients need today.

IBM's Content Collection and Archiving family consists of:

IBM Content Collector for Email: An automated, flexible andscalable offering that is designed to expand e-mail information usage forcompliance, ECM, Business Process Management and Business Intelligenceapplications.

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