Joint Go-to-Market Effort for Smarsh Enterprise Archive, Supervision and Discovery Designed to Grow Microsoft Office 365 Footprint in Financial Services Industry

PORTLAND, Ore., September 2, 2020 – Smarsh®, enabling organizations to manage the risk and uncover the value within their electronic communications, today announced that Enterprise Discovery is now co-sell ready as part of the company’s participation in the Microsoft One Commercial Partner (OCP) program. The enterprise-grade application enables organizations to efficiently collect, review and produce employee electronic communications in support of litigation, internal investigations and audits.

Enterprise Discovery, Enterprise Supervision and the Smarsh Enterprise Archive can be deployed on Microsoft Azure and have secured OCP co-sell ready status. Smarsh and Microsoft go to market together with these integrated solutions to accelerate the compliant adoption of Microsoft Office 365, including Microsoft Teams, within the financial services industry.

"Electronic communications data continues to diversify and proliferate, and legacy infrastructure refresh cycles are becoming more expensive and resource-intensive," said Brian Cramer, Smarsh CEO. "Where the data resides, and having flexible, immediate access to it, are key strategic decisions that impact organizations' abilities to meet e-discovery and compliance requirements today and in the future.  The deployment of the Smarsh Connected Suite on Microsoft Azure enables organizations to future-proof in a highly regulated environment, and provides the strategic path forward for the global financial services industry."

Enterprise Discovery provides a highly secure, defensible, and auditable workflow across all electronic communications. Content is preserved securely in evidentiary quality. Users can apply legal holds and rapidly cull, categorize, and analyze archived content. Customers can perform discovery across an industry-leading breadth of electronic communication channels, including email, collaboration platforms, mobile/text messaging, social media, and voice content.

Among these communication channels, Smarsh offers unique capture capabilities for Teams, capturing content in one-to-one chats, multi-party chats and persistent channels. This includes edits, deletes, replies, emojis, GIFs, files, stickers and links. Smarsh also enables voice recording, transcription and archiving for Teams. Once ingested into the Enterprise Archive, content is stored in immutable format, automatically indexed and accessible at any time in a search-ready state.

Smarsh Enterprise Discovery, Enterprise Supervision and Enterprise Archive are all available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. For more information on Enterprise Discovery, please visit https://www.smarsh.com/connected-apps/discovery/.

About Smarsh:

Smarsh is the recognized global leader in electronic communications archiving solutions for regulated organizations. The Smarsh Connected Suite provides innovative capture, archiving, e-discovery, and supervision solutions across the industry’s widest breadth of communication channels.

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 federal and state government agencies to meet their public records and e-discovery requirements. For more information, visit www.smarsh.com.