Case Studies
Hanzo's customer base is diverse - from corporations, world-renowned scientific laboratories, national media corporations, academic institutions to small independent web technology companies. We provide our web archiving services for an equally diverse range of business requirements, including website litigation-support and e-discovery, compliance, brand heritage and corporate memory.
World Renowned Investment Management Organisation
FINRA Compliance
One of the world’s largest investment management organisations selected Hanzo Archives to provide a comprehensive, fully browsable web archive for FINRA compliance. FINRA and SEC 17a4 compliance is a challenge for websites and social media for many reasons.
Hanzo collects the entirety of their websites, including Flash presentations, RTMP video, membership-only websites, and financial calculators. These are collected every day of the week and all instances of their websites available are fully browsable and searchable on the same day; they can browse all the links to any page, play videos and presentations, and re-play their financial calculators showing historical data and behaviour.
Global Food & Beverage Brand
Corporate Web Archive for Legal, Brand Development, and Marketing
One of the world's most admired and successful Food & Beverage brands selected Hanzo Archives to capture its web-based marketing and brand developments.
Hanzo capture 100's of websites around the world, enabling the company to preserve their web marketing and communications investments for future use, in legal, brand development and marketing campaign development. Uniquely, Hanzo are able to capture the most challenging of web content, including dynamic websites, video, and Flash. In an interesting recent development, the company have moved several of the websites into the cloud entirely, utilising Twitter, Facebook and YouTube extensively. Fortunately Hanzo Archives' technology is able to capture social web content and preserve it in the same was as regular websites.
A representative of the company stated “Websites now contain unique information that doesn’t exist in any other form. While we can exhaustively capture advertisements, TV commercials, print, etc., we had so far not found a product that could successfully capture our websites. We are very excited by Hanzo’s capabilities.”
CERN, Switzerland
Cultural Heritage, Scientific Archive
CERN, the birthplace of the World Wide Web, selected Hanzo to archive their entire public website and their collection of collaborators' sites and make the archives available to the public.
The collection comprises of 10's of websites and 100's of microsites, collaborators and publishers sites that carry stories, news and insights into this extraordinary institution.
Using Hanzo Enterprise software and archiving services, Hanzo enables CERN to collect a comprehensive snapshot of all accessible content several times a year. Along with this Hanzo frequently captures regularly updated items such as news and blogs. Hanzo also provides crawl engineering services and QA services to ensure that the archived content is of the highest quality. In addition, Hanzo have uploaded this entire collection to the public web collection of the European Archive.
Nations' Memorybank, United Kingdom
Personal Heritage Archive
UK based, Nations' Memory Bank, the online people's archive for memories and personal heritage, turned to Hanzo Archives’s unique archiving software to keep their collection of precious and valuable memories, memorabilia and research items safe. This site is a vast public archive of memories, enabling users to record moments in their lives for posterity.
Hanzo’s archiving software captures every memory and media item that is uploaded and archives it into Hanzo's public web collection in an application-neutral format. This archive is regularly donated to other public web archives for shared preservation. Hanzo are proud to be making this contribution.
Gemeenteweb B.V., Netherlands
Enterprise Archive
Gemeenteweb B.V., of Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, has selected Hanzo Archives enterprise web archiving system to power their innovative Municipalities Web Archive. Hanzo's commercial and technical solution enabled Gemeenteweb to offer public-accessible archives of municipality’s websites, to comply with the municipality's legal regulations. A bonus to this development for the municipalities, are the lasting digital heritage of their websites.
Hanzo’s Research and Development Projects
Hanzo is involved in a variety European and transatlantic research and development in web archiving software.