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BearingPoint has joined forces with it's long-standing partner Microsoft to create a compliance and risk management solution based on the SharePoint platform. And you said SharePoint didn't do compliance...

Updates to the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM) becomes effective today. They four main provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act for commercial emailers are: Bans false or misleading header information Prohibits Deceptive Subject Lines Requires an opt-out method Requires Commercial Email to be Identified as an Advertisement an must include the senders valid [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CAN-SPAM Act Enforceability Goes into Effect Today", url: "http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/07/07/can-spam-act-enforceability-goes-into-effect-today/" });

Archiving has become a huge deal for organizations large and small as rules and regulations dictate how easily information needs to be available for compliance and legal purposes. So it's no surprise that enterprise content management vendors are incorporating these requirements into their solution offerings.

Oracle, being no exception, has developed the Oracle Online Archive that uses their database as a storage repository for all types of content, including email, files, etc. Seems like they have been down this road before though. Does a "single solution for all content types" work in the real world?

Oracle has taken it's Universal Content Management solution to a new level by announcing two new components: Universal Online Archive and Email Archive Service. Both of these components are just the latest in the long line of integrated products to support the growing needs of content management.

HP has taken a dip into the acquisitions market with its recent purchase of Tower Software, an Australian Enterprise Content Management Provider. But they don’t call it an ECM acquisition – rather it’s a deal that will help HP expand its reach into the ediscovery and compliance software market.

Surety, LLC, a provider of data integrity solutions, has announced the release of AbsoluteProof for Microsoft SharePoint -- a lightweight, automated software solution that seals and authenticates records in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).

CYA Technologies, a leading provider of complete granular recovery solutions for enterprise content management (ECM) systems is ready to save you from a world a trouble. They have just released their latest Data Integrity Service offering for users of EMC Documentum and IBM FileNet P8 ECM systems, a service designed to find, document, and repair corruption in your ECM system.

Varonis has launched a new version of its DatAdvantage solution, which extends its data governance capabilities to unstructured data in UNIX environments. DatAdvantage 3.5 provides visibility to and enables auditing for data held in UNIX repositories, ensuring that such data is accessible for appropriate business activities only. The move marks a significant evolution of the DatAdvantage product, which hitherto could only be applied to Windows environments. Users can now manage unstructured data from both environments from a single interface. The technology provides visibility for any UNIX file server, gathers user data from NIS, LDAP and local machine accounts, and grabs event data from Network Appliance filers and Sun Solaris v8, v9, and v10 file servers.

No doubt as an organization today, you have compliance regulations to consider in everything you do. If you are currently an IBM customer then there's a solution fit for you. If you are not, have a look anyway - it may be just the ticket you need. IBM has launched the IBM Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control. It's an integrated software, hardware, and services environment that will aide organizations in managing legal and compliance mandates.

When Google >dropped a cool US$ 625 million on communications security and compliance company Postini in July of 2007, speculation was rampant about the company's intentions, with most pointing to a desire to attract more enterprise customers by beefing up their "Apps" with security options. The pundits appear to have gotten this one right with Google's announcement of a series of enticing email compliance and security products -- all powered by what was Postini. The new offerings include message filtering, transport layer encryption, and business records archiving and discovery. Shazam! The records management market just got Googled.