Compliance & Records Retention

Calls for compliance - legal, regulatory or industry-specific - are proving relevant in some shape or form for every company these days.

Is your organization subject to the well-defined policies of regulatory agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)? And/or broader based requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)?  How about the public record preservation and availability mandates that government agencies at all levels manage? Or simply consider general business best practices for record retention and employee supervision.

So much of today's business is conducted electronically, via email specifically, and the need to organize, index, retrieve, store and protect these electronic records is at the heart of the maturing worldwide regulatory environment.

An email and electronic message-archiving solution is mission-critical to satisfying these obligations. Being prepared with a PROACTIVE solution in place can save your company significant hassle and protect it from both the financial ramifications of non-compliance (that are growing more and more common) or the daunting cost of a REACTIVE solution.

Smarsh built its reputation with solutions originally built to meet the compliance needs of the strictly regulated and enforced financial services industry, and Smarsh has the flawless SEC and FINRA audit track records to show for it.  The company proactively consults with legal and compliance firms nationwide to ensure that our technology and our managed service keep our clients prepared to meet the challenges of the evolving regulatory environment.

Regulations and Smarsh Compliance Solutions

Corporate Knowledge Retention

Email continues to grow into a more and more substantial form of corporate record. According to Osterman Research, email contains approximately 75% of the information used by an organization's individuals on a daily basis, and a large percentage of corporate email users spend more than two hours per day tending to content stored in email systems.

As is the case, a remarkable amount of corporate knowledge - produced by employees that are paid to produce such information - is at risk if message preservation and retrieval is not a priority for your organization.