Global Relay Archive vs. Informatica Data Archive (legacy)

If you have a finance company and are bound by certain compliance rules then Global Relay is the gold standard. It does cost more than typical Exchange archival solutions so regular non-compliance organizations can look at other options. We have had multiple events that required the use of Global relay some simple some much more complicated. They came through every time.

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To manage users, go to the admin dashboard, here is a section for users. In this users section here you can see which users are configured and you have the ability to suspend a user. If you want to edit or add users, you need to go to the Organization section, then click on another user section there, which then gives you the ability to edit or add users.

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• legal searches
• archive of all communications coming and going
• extraction of data and delivery without users ever touching it

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• It's not a major problem, but it's an example of one of many small annoyances.
• Also, there is no proper documentation available

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• Pricing is a bit high for data extraction

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• No [suggestions for] improvement as such we amazed with the performance and the services
• Standalone not integrated with power center

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Exchange Online Archiving is fine but the gold standard for finance is Global Relay. Most clients will go outside of MS for compliance-related archiving.

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My company currently uses Hadoop for big data management, as well as ParAccel/Matrix databases for storing the data. The combo is fairly effective, and the only reason we are exploring ILM is because of our use of other Informatica products, and looking to build in either synergies between the technologies, or cost savings by bundling all our licensing through one vendor (Informatica)

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• The business can responsed appropiately to legal actions as required by law
• The business can remain functioning
• The product has worked 100% of the time

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• Tracking the usage of specific brackets of data across the entire organisation has now become possible.
• The team was already using PowerCenter. Therefore, using ILM was a very apt decision that allowed easier management of data at the organisation level.

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