A smarter approach to archiving

IBM InfoSphere Content Collector software is a key part of the IBM Smart Archive strategy, which provides capabilities that organizations can use to:
- Enable a deeper understanding of what information to archive through discovery- and analytics-based assessment technologies.
- Eliminate point solution complexity and cost by unifying data and content archiving through common collection (ingest) technologies that create an information-aware infrastructure.
- Implement cost-optimized retention leveraging a unified, flexible and secure policy-aware infrastructure.
- Speed time to value through multiple modular yet integrated solutions including choice of management and delivery models, such as traditional on-premise software, preconfigured
appliance, software-as-a-service, cloud-ready and hybrid options.
- Help reduce risk, respond faster to legal inquiries, trust and leverage information through integrated compliance, records management, analytics and electronic discovery
(eDiscovery) value-added capabilities.

Beyond Archiving

A leader in content collection and archiving, this IBM solution is designed to deliver far more than conventional point products, which focus primarily on archiving e-mail. Instead, it focuses on four principal business needs:
- To archive e-mail and content for storage space management
- To manage e-mail and content for legal obligations
- To connect e-mail and disconnected content to other managed content
- To manage e-mail and content as part of a business process

Archive e-mail and content for storage space management

Overburdened storage can cause systems to slow, productivity to decrease and user frustration to rise. IT organizations have long looked for ways to free space by off-loading this burden.
Now they also need ways to better manage content. InfoSphere Content Collector software has the management capabilities you need to reduce operational problems introduced by the growing amounts of content.
Information previously stored and managed in information silos now can be managed together—because it resides together— lowering the cost of management and risk. InfoSphere Content Collector smart archiving and content deduplication capabilities can help further reduce IT infrastructure costs associated with the management of e-mail and other content.

Manage e-mail and content for legal obligations

An intensifying legal and regulatory climate is making it more important than ever for you to collect and manage your business content. If you cannot locate and produce information
quickly, you’ll likely incur increased cost, risk and complexity inyour operations—and you could face fines or other actions from regulatory bodies. InfoSphere Content Collector software helps
you comply with requirements for the production of authentic and trustworthy records.
Together with offerings such as IBM InfoSphere eDiscovery Manager software, InfoSphere Content Collector enables you to produce a quick and cost-effective response to compliance
requirements by helping you analyze, monitor, protect, control and report information in accordance with legal requirements.

Connect e-mail and disconnected content to other managed content

The volume of casually created, contributed and consumed content is growing exponentially, spurred by new technologies that create a wide variety of content types from different sources.
With InfoSphere Content Collector software, you can control, protect and leverage disconnected content by managing file systems and collaborative content environments, enhancing content with advanced classification, connecting content for use with enterprise content management (ECM) services and extracting knowledge and insight buried in content—all using the same infrastructure.

Manage e-mail and content as part of a business process

Content can be the heart of business processes. Organizations use it to initiate service requests, respond to insurance claims and otherwise play a vital role in actions and activities.
But linking content with the related business process often is still a manual process—and a costly one. InfoSphere Content Collector software can help you optimize business processes
involving e-mail and other content by automating workflow steps, reconnecting content with workflow or active cases, automating response suggestion or routing of e-mail, and supervising and monitoring content for noncompliance.

Helping to reduce costs from deployment to administration

InfoSphere Content Collector software can help you achieve a lower TCO and a higher return on your investment. Thanks to its single point of administration and advanced functionality enabled out of the box, InfoSphere Content Collector can virtually eliminate the need for custom integration. The traditional stepped model of system deployment results in increasing and repeated fixed costs to deploy each system, requires administration from each location and creates silos with their own integration costs. But implementing an ECM environment that includes InfoSphere Content Collector software can mean only slight and gradual increases in costs due to incremental deployment. And your return on investment (ROI) can skyrocket when the efficiencies of automation, automated records classification and a more efficient and reliable eDiscovery solution are added to the ECM equation.