ZyLAB Enhances Microsoft SharePoint Bundle with Support for Wiki’s and Blogs
New Capabilities Support e-Discoveries and information Governance by Extending Integration for Managing Content between ZyLAB’s Information Management Platform and Microsoft SharePoint Server
London, UK - April 13, 2010 - ZyLAB, a leading provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, today announced a new version of its Microsoft SharePoint Bundle that enables organizations to further seamlessly integrate content, specifically wiki’s and blogs, between the ZyLAB Information Management Platform and Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server. ZyLAB’s Information Management platform, a XML-based system that provides a robust foundation for the archiving and long-term management of information, augments Office SharePoint Server by providing a single source for integrated enterprise content management activities and a full range of functionality that ensures easily searchable information.
The new version of the ZyLAB Microsoft SharePoint Bundle includes full support for archiving and searching SharePoint blogs as well as Wiki’s and Record Centers into the ZyLAB XML Storage. These capabilities are critical to today’s e-discoveries and can be processed, analyzed and reviewed rapidly and efficiently with a full audit trail to the original location of the information. Off-loading information from a SharePoint environment into a file-based open format becomes even easier with these new additions and enables organizations to share and reuse content with the ZyLAB Information Management Platform information that was previously locked up in “unused” team sites.
Wiki’s and blogs often contain views and content essential to internal and external corporate communications, and much like other web content, must be considered as company records as they can lead to legal exposure. Because they are official records they must be archived and included in eDiscovery processes.
“We are extending our Microsoft SharePoint Bundle by offering access to the open ZyLAB XML storage structure for wiki’s and blogs which are now common place within organizations,” said Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer for ZyLAB. “SharePoint is great for team collaboration, but after a project is finished many users need to take the information out of SharePoint and store it in an open and sustainable format. All information in the project can be exported to the ZyLAB storage, indexed and made searchable.”
ZyLAB’s Microsoft SharePoint Bundle offers numerous benefits to a SharePoint environment, including:
- Expanded search capabilities on scanned documents in different languages
- Handle large volumes of unstructured data; no limits to the size and number of documents per project are in place
- Eliminate need for costly future SharePoint upgrades
- Offload documents and structure and entire projects once projects are ready
- Offer a background platform for long-term sustainable and scalable XML based storage, security and advanced searching (also through the SharePoint portal); avoid hidden costs caused by additional SQL-server licenses, maintenance, backup and upgrades
- Out of the box compliance with many (international) standards
- Full integration with the ZyLAB eDiscovery & Production System for rapid response to discovery requests