IBM Content Collector
The five Content Collector products:
- Content Collector for Email
- Content Collector for File Systems
- Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint
- Content Collector for SAP Applications
- Content Collector Discovery Analitics
What is Content Collector?
In today’s economic environment, you can’t afford to just archive e-mail, files, SharePoint and other content into a siloed archive and never see it again. You need to gain control of your content and use your content for a business advantage.
IBM Content Collector is an overcoupling professional software archiving solution, that exists out of five different products.
Content Collector collects, enhances and manages email, file systems, SharePoint content, and SAP data and documents.
This enables you to have a deeper understanding of what information to archive through discovery
and analytics-based assesment technologies. You can eliminate point solution complexity and
lower costs by unifying data and content archiving through common collection (ingest) and classification technologies.
The five products
Content Collector for Email
Based on a modular, extensible architecture, this product enables organizations to gain control over their Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange E-mail Servers.
- Uses smart archiving and deduplication to help reduce runaway storage costs.
- Centralizes policy management enabling common rules and policies across all content.
- Provides automated, policy-driven e-mail collection and archiving using ZeroClick technology, with journaling and manual options also available.
- Enables flexible routing or processing of internal, external and custom instructions with task routing architecture.
- Connects and archives e-mail and attachments and inserts them into a business process.
- Prompts users for custom metadata during manual email capture.
- Eables users to search, view, restore and retain their e-mail which has been collected and archived.
- Brings agility in responding to litigation, investigations, audit and information inquiries using eDiscovery Manager and eDiscovery Analyzer.
- Dynamically declares collected content as a record using Enterprise Records.
- Makes classification decisions on-the-fly based on metadata using Classification Module
Content Collector for File Systems
This is an enterprise solution for controlling documents on network file shares, providing tools that help users comply with corporate and regulatory policies.
- Uses smart archiving and content deduplication capabilities to help further reduce IT infrastructure costs associated with the management and retention of file systems and other content
- Provides on-the-fly decisions and seamless integration with classification and records with task routing architecture
- Automatically captures documents as they are placed in a monitored location on the file share
- Enables leaving documents in place, or moving, flagging or replacing them with shortcuts so users can find previously loaded documents
- Permits sophisticated and targeted file handling using an advanced rules engine
- Highly scalable to support collection and archiving high volumes of file system content
- Classifies documents and content using metadata and rules with Classification Module
- Dynamically declares collected content as a record using Enterprise Records
- Brings agility in responding to litigation, investigations, audit and information inquiries using eDiscovery Manager and eDiscovery Analyzer
Content Collector for SAP Applications
Content Collector for SAP reduces operational costs and increases efficiency of SAP users and processes. It provides SAP data and document archiving, SAP content-enabling, and complementary process management for SAP environments while supporting the widest choice of archive targets on the market.
- Content Collector for SAP supports Content Manager, Filenet Content Manager, Content Manager OnDemand, and Filenet Image Service, as well as direct to IBM and non-IBM storage devices via Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) with built-in hierarchical storage management support.
- It is specially optimized for SAP environments and supports both SAP ArchiveLink and SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) protocols.
- Manage the growth of SAP application data through periodic archiving to improve and control overall system performance and reduce cost.
- Improve efficiency of SAP business processes and users by linking relevant content to SAP.
- Increase end-user productivity with easy retrieval from the archive -- simply and effectively from an SAP GUI interface, even years after the data or content was originally stored.
- Establish a scalable and secure back-end archive management repository that offers virtually unlimited growth capabilities, expanding to become an in-place repository for your organization's enterprise content management (ECM) deployment.
Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint
Content Collector for SharePoint replaces FileNet Connector for SharePoint Document Libraries with a product that is completely integrated into Content Collector. It provides collection and archiving of SharePoint content and extends capabilities of SharePoint.
- Now supports collecting and archiving SharePoint documents into Content Manager Enterprise Edition as well as FileNet Content Manager.
- Supports all previous features of FileNet Connector for SharePoint Document Libraries.
- Enables common rules and policies from a common administration console - across all content including Content Collector for eMail and Content Collector for File Systems.
- Is priced in the same fashion as other Content Collector products.
- Classifies documents and content using metadata, rules or Classification Module.
- Dynamically declares collected content as a record using Enterprise Records.
- Brings agility in responding to litigation, investigations, audit and information inquiries using eDiscovery Manager and eDiscovery Analyzer.
- Supports Windows SharePoint Server (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)
Content Collector for Discovery Analytics
This solution brings the innovative and full-featured capabilities of Content Collector and eDiscovery products conveniently into one product offering. It is:
- Value-Packed: Enables you to intelligently collect, archive, search and analyze electronic content for legal discovery and regulatory compliance mandates; in a one stop shop.
- Affordable: Available in a starter pack designed to help budget-conscious organizations kickoff their small to medium compliance projects between 250 and 1,400 users.
- Flexible: Starter Pack customers can upgrade to the full-licensed product at any time, as business needs evolve.
Content Collector Discovery Analytics gives you the latest tools to intelligently collect, search, cull, hold, and export case-relevant content; all through an easy-to-use, feature rich, Web-based user interface. It supports organizations efforts to gain early insight into a case, identify key concepts, locate critical pieces of evidence, understand important facts, and form early case strategies while preserving chain of custody to help improve security, auditability, and defensibility.