Migrating to Office 365 or thinking of migrating?
Remember your sensitive data migrates with you and Office 365 by itself is not a compliance or retention platform.
Office 365 offers great benefits for organisations moving their email to the cloud, but Office 365 offers neither the functionality nor the security that IT departments require without additional addons or 3rd party software.
Ensuring regulatory compliance and servicing eDiscovery and data requests using native Office 365 tools can be an overwhelming challenge. Microsoft agrees and requires expensive Office 365 add-ons or user licenses to supplement native tools to manage eDiscovery, retention, legal hold and to meet compliance requirements.
Here are some of the challenge’s organisations face using Office 365 for compliance and data retention
Ensuring regulatory compliance and servicing eDiscovery and data requests using native Office 365 tools can be an overwhelming challenge. Microsoft agrees and requires expensive Office 365 add-ons or user licenses to supplement native tools to manage eDiscovery, retention, legal hold and to meet compliance requirements.
Here are some of the challenge’s organisations face using Office 365 for compliance and data retention
Compliance Gaps
Simple keyword searches across all email accounts are impossible without a 3rd party compliance solution or expensive add-ons. eDiscovery, retention and legal hold all require expensive and complex add-ons or full E5 licences.
Data Loss
Shared mailboxes have storage limits with no retention, discovery, accountability, compliance or legal hold capabilities
Complexity
Office 365 eDiscovery and compliance require complex planning and implementation, with slow and sampled search results that are difficult to review, retrieve, and export. Sampled results mean you can’t see if the search is correct or contains huge amounts of non-relevant information, you only find out when you’ve completed your download which could take hours or days and results in a completely new search.
Increased Costs
To provide eDiscovery, retention, compliance, and visibility O365 requires E3 with add-ons or E5 licenses for every user including Shared, Inactive, Ex-Users and Legacy users. MailMeter works with EVERY license so you only pay for the license you need.
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