Review: Email Archiving Software For Accounting

Email Archiving for Accountants, CPA Firms, Accounting Professionals

Google Vault

What it Does:

Google Vault helps companies manage retain, archive, search, and export company emails and recorded chats.

Main Features:

  • An archive for emails and chats
  • Google-powered search to find content quickly
  • Legal holds to preserve information
  • Easy exporting to standard formats
  • Audit reports to keep track of activity

Free Trial: (Yes/No)

Yes, 30-day free trial

Pricing:

Starts at $5 per user per month

Cloud based?

Yes

Website:

https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/products/vault/

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Mailstore

What it Does:

Mailstore provides small and medium sized businesses solutions for email archiving, management and compliance

Main Features:

  • Easy, No-Risk Setup
  • Low Cost
  • Integrated Storage Technology
  • All email can be restored from the archive in standard formats at any time

Free Trial: (Yes/No)

Yes, 30-day free trial

Pricing:

Plan starts at $190

Cloud based?

Yes

Website:

http://www.mailstore.com/

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Smarsh

What it Does:

A unified platform for archiving your electronic communications.

Main Features:

  • CONVERSATIONS Messages are presented in a conversation view to showcase context of the thread.
  • LEXICONS Clients can customize company-approved lexicons of keywords or start with a default list.
  • MESSAGE SCORING Use the policy engine to apply scoring to messages based on any criteria.
  • FULL AUDIT TRAILS Every action taken in the platform is documented and stored in a read-only format.
  • GROUPS Model the review structure of your organization to specific users and groups for easy review and permissioning. IMPORTS Migrate legacy data easily from your existing or previous archiving provider.
  • FLAGS & TAGS Reviewers have the ability to open/close, flag, or tag messages based on cases, events or topics.
  • EXCLUSIONS Create policies that exclude certain phrases or signatures to reduce false-positive search results.
  • QUEUES Quickly see the messages you’re responsible for each day and how many you have left to review, then prioritize to get the job done fast.
  • RETENTION POLICIES & LEGAL HOLDS Messages are retained in accordance with client retention policies and active legal holds.
  • PERMISSIONS Grant the appropriate level of access to each user for both review and administration. CASES Prepare and share content needed for audits and litigation in a variety of formats for compatibility with other case management tools.
  • ESCALATIONS Assign or forward messages to supervisors or other reviewers for further review. SAMPLING Search based on random percentages (i.e. 1%, 5%, 10%) or the number of messages.

Free Trial: (Yes/No)

Pricing:

Pricing is not displayed publicly. Website provides a contact sales page

Cloud based?

Yes

Website:

http://www.smarsh.com/

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Live Office

What it Does:

Enterprise email archiving and security. Symantec is a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving.

Main Features:

Email archiving with Symantec Enterprise Vault or Enterprise Vault.cloud frees users from quota frustrations while improving Exchange and Domino performance and scalability. Implementing a Symantec email archiving solution can provide your organization with the following principal benefits:

  • A central on-premise or cloud-based email archiving solution can also allow users to save and archive PST and NSF files, as well as data from other critical information sources.
  • Faster and more seamless email migrations by archiving old and duplicate email before you migrate.
  • Intuitive end user access to archived email while on or offline* and on mobile devices.
  • Proactive compliance with consistent retention policies and faster search for eDiscovery.

Free Trial: (Yes/No)

Yes

Pricing:

Not listed publicly

Cloud based?

Yes

Website:

http://www.liveoffice.com/

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