Hanzo Archives

Business intelligence, publishing and legally compliant archiving become easy and affordable with Hanzo Enterprise

http://www.hanzoarchives.com PICNIC ’06, AMSTERDAM, 29 September 2006 — Capturing, preserving and accessing documents from websites and intranets became significantly easier today with the launch of Hanzo Enterprise. Hanzo Enterprise is the first Web archiving system designed specifically for archiving a corporation’s total web presence (TWP) – all the internet, intranet, extranet, blog, customer forum and wiki pages it needs to keep. Uniquely, pages retrieved from Hanzo Enterprise are identical to what was originally served, so that enterprises can:

• read exactly what appeared on their websites in the past, for example in response to a customer query, irrespective of the technology used to serve it
• ensure compliance with archiving regulations for digital documents, in the same way as for paper documents
• hold and sell historical content as easily as current content
• broaden the documents and data available for future analysis and business intelligence

“Corporations, government agencies and other institutions increasingly rely on Web-based publications and collaboration, such as: websites, extranets, intranets, blogs, wikis, customer forums, and so on.” said Mark Middleton, CEO of Hanzo Archives Limited. “Collectively they are referred to as the Total Web Presence (TWP). From a legal perspective, the TWP is a central responsibility of the corporation as a whole, with liability for content and accuracy – consistent with it being a significant channel for both external and internal communications.”Hanzo’s understanding of these challenges, coupled with its unique technology, enables corporations to address their Web archiving problems today, with the confidence that should they need to access old content, it will be quick and straightforward.”Hanzo Enterprise uses client-side archiving, combined with archiving of content feeds and integration via our APIs. This approach is the most appropriate in the corporate environment as it archives a very broad range of content from a wide variety of systems,” said Mark Williamson, CTO of Hanzo Archives Limited. “Our Enterprise archiving system generates an authentic flat HTML archive, a draft ISO standard format called WARC, containing an exact equivalent of what a generic user would have experienced. This is a significant advantage for generic uses of the archive, such as business intelligence teams, as well as legal uses, such as regulatory compliance.”This product is the latest development in Hanzo’s suite of radical solutions for managing Web archives and documents. It has been developed in response to the increasing importance of archiving within the corporate sector.

Why Hanzo Enterprise is needed

Hanzo Enterprise provides full control over the life-cycle of the total Web presence across all corporate documents, including publication, archival and deletion. Hanzo Enterprise can significantly reduce e-discovery response times by enabling direct search on the totality of a corporation’s Web material, enhanced by filtering by date, keywords, metadata, publications space and so on.Hanzo Enterprise can archive every page, feed or site browsed by employees and customers. Content is archived and made available in a searchable and browsable time structured archive. Internal and external content are gathered in real time or by pre-arranged schedules and stored with metadata and tags for easy identification, organisation and retrieval. Default collection agents can be set up for key employees, who can choose to add additional agents and collections relevant to their work at any time, bringing the benefits of this knowledge to the whole corporation.Traditional backup of databases and servers is not an option for maintaining accessible web-based information, especially where content management systems (CMSs) are used, utilising a broad range of technologies and systems, databases, schemas and templates that inevitably evolve and are very costly to maintain beyond their period of active use.An Enterprise Web Archiving Policy is the only means of creating and maintaining a stable, time-structured, verifiably authentic and independent version of the corporate Total Web Presence. Hanzo Enterprise enables organisations to do this simply and cost effectively.

About Hanzo Archives

Hanzo Archives Limited is a web archiving software and services company based in England and France. It was founded in 2005 by a team of software entrepreneurs and archivists from globally renowned memory institutions. We have observed important and beautiful websites emerge and disappear from the net everyday; whether by simply editing existing content, neglect, accident, censorship or oppression, this is a profound loss. We started Hanzo with the belief that archiving the content of the net is a social and cultural necessity.Furthermore, web archives, with their cumulative and stable long-lived content, are rapidly becoming the foundation to services and tools for business intelligence, commercial advantage and legal compliance. To this end we have created tools for publishers, organisations and individuals to save sites, pages and links forever.

Hanzo Enterprise

Hanzo Enterprise provides full control over the life-cycle of the total Web presence across all corporate publications, including publication, archival and deletion. Hanzo Enterprise can significantly reduce e-discovery response times by enabling direct search on the totality of your Web material, enhanced by filtering by date, keywords, metadata, publications space and so on.Hanzo Enterprise can archive every page, feed or site browsed by employees and customers. Content is archived and made available in a searchable and browsable time structured archive. Internal and external content are gathered in real time or by pre-arranged schedules and stored with metadata and tags for easy identification, organisation and retrieval. Default collection agents can be set up for key employees, who can choose to add additional agents and collections relevant to their work at any time, bringing the benefits of this knowledge to the whole corporation.

Hanzo Forge: White Label Hanzoweb

Online publishers who need the functionality of Hanzoweb but with their own branding can choose Hanzo Forge, our white label archive solution. This is a tailored version of Hanzoweb that provides publishers with a range of powerful tools to collect, organise and store their digital content and their user-generated content, and make it available to customers within the framework of their own brand.Hanzo Forge enables publishers to extend the value of their content over significant periods of time by making historical content accessible in new ways, engaging users in its preservation and enhancement. Publishers can promote their histories and values through collecting, recording, researching and making accessible material that provides an accurate and comprehensive history of their output.

Managed Archiving Services

Hanzo provides instant Web archiving capability to organisations who wish to archive content, generate indexes and aggregate data of specific interest to their business and applications. Hanzo Managed Archiving Services are available for requirements ranging from a few thousand to several millions of URLs per day.

Consulting and Development Services

To complement our products and to enable customers to integrate our products within their corporate environment, we offer consulting, development and integration services.

Find out more

If you would like to discuss any aspect of web archiving, please contact:Mark MiddletonHanzo Archives Limitedmarkm@hanzoarchives.com http://www.hanzoarchives.com http://www.hanzoweb.com Source Hanzo Archives Limited