Your Communications Archiving Strategy: Be Prepared for the Future
Your communications archive compliance strategy can make ripples for years to come. Is your compliance team ready for whatever the future may bring?
Compliance teams today are under constant pressure to continuously adapt to evolving regulations and new communication channels. Without a proactive strategy, organizations risk falling behind — or worse, facing costly penalties. Selecting the right communications archiving platform can ensure your organization meets today’s regulatory needs while remaining agile to adapt to new challenges. Is your compliance team ready for the future?
Why it matters
Your communications archiving compliance strategy isn’t just a short-term fix — it’s a long-term investment that can impact your organization's agility, risk exposure, and bottom line for years to come. As regulatory demands and communication channels evolve, a proactive, technology-forward approach is critical to staying compliant without overburdening your team. By choosing an advanced, AI-powered platform like Smarsh Professional Archive, firms can streamline compliance workflows, reduce manual effort, and cut legacy system costs — all while future-proofing operations.
Transforming archiving costs into valuable ROI
“We have been a customer since 2010. We moved to Smarsh because they offered a comprehensive, feature-rich platform for archiving and review. Having been with two other companies previously for email archiving, they exceeded our expectations. Smarsh continues to develop their product, rolling out improvements regularly and their Technical Support is second to none."
- Director of IT in the Finance Industry
Instead of relying on prohibitive communication policies that are difficult to enforce, a more effective approach is to integrate best-in-class cloud-based archiving technology that seamlessly captures and retains communications across multiple channels, ensuring compliance across all platforms — whether employees are communicating on-site or remotely.
Choosing the right archiving solution allows compliance teams to focus on core business initiatives rather than manual supervision. While some providers may highlight fewer clicks to access data, the true value of an optimized archiving platform is shown by its ability to streamline compliance processes. An intuitive, automated system minimizes the need for extensive technical expertise and eliminates time-consuming data searches.
Empower regulatory compliance with innovation, not compromise
Manual reviews of archived communications records can be labor-intensive and prone to critical human errors. To address this challenge, Smarsh recently announced the Smarsh AI Assistant, an advanced feature within Professional Archive. This AI-powered tool accelerates compliance reviews, providing automated insights that streamline data analysis and flag potential risks in real time. By integrating AI-driven compliance assistance, firms can enhance productivity while reducing operational burdens.
Does your firm feel locked in by your current archive provider’s high data extraction costs, early termination fees, or steep contract exit penalties? These barriers may be preventing you from switching to a solution that better supports your communications governance and archiving strategy. Check out the ways Smarsh Professional Archive boosts your ROI and ensures your archive is optimized for today, and ready for any unknowns of the future.
Leading with 20+ years of regulatory compliance expertise
At Smarsh, we are committed to helping compliance teams meet the challenges of regulatory compliance and digital communications governance. Our industry-leading archiving platform helps financial firms optimize supervisory review workflows with greater efficiency and accuracy.
According to a Forrester Economic Impact Study commissioned by Smarsh from a composite of financial services organizations that have chosen Smarsh showed the following risk-adjusted present value quantified benefits:
- Reduced communications data archiving costs by 25%
- Improved data capture efficiencies worth $40 million in cost savings over three years
- Uncovered cost savings of $2.3 million through decommissioning legacy on-premises tools
Simplify recordkeeping and oversight while minimizing risk
With a global footprint and support for multiple languages, our technology ensures organizations remain compliant with all evolving regulations. By leveraging AI-driven automation, financial services firms can accelerate supervisory review processes, enhance productivity, and reduce compliance workloads. Our Professional Archive platform intelligently analyzes archived messages, flagging potential risks across mobile, email, social, instant messages, and collaboration messaging — all from one place.
Trusted by over 6,500 organizations worldwide, Smarsh provides a seamless, worry-free compliance experience. Our solution empowers businesses to streamline strategies into effective communications, archiving, recordkeeping, and oversight — minimizing risk while reducing the time and resources required for compliance operations.
Check out our announcement about Professional Archive AI – integrated Compliance Assistant
Watch it work to explore the benefits of switching to Professional Archive.
Smarsh is honored to be named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions.
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Scalable for organizations of all sizes, the Smarsh platform provides customers with compliance built on confidence. It enables them to strategically future-proof as new communication channels are adopted, and to realize more insight and value from the data in their archive. Customers strengthen their compliance and e-discovery initiatives and benefit from the productive use of email, social media, mobile/text messaging, instant messaging and collaboration, web, and voice channels.
Smarsh serves a global client base that spans the top banks in North America and Europe, along with leading brokerage firms, insurers, and registered investment advisors. Smarsh also enables state and local government agencies to meet their public records and e-discovery requirements. For more information, visit www.smarsh.com.
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