Web archiving for everyone

 
 


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White paper on enterprise web archiving
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LONDON, 10 March 2008

Today we release our white paper on enterprise web archiving for e-discovery, in which we seek to answer the following following questions:

  1. How do you archive your documents and ensure they comply with all the relevant business processes, laws and regulations?
  2. Most organisations have systems for dealing with paper documents – from contracts and memos to advertising and marketing materials. Many also have systems for emails. But what about sales and marketing literature on your website, pages from your intranet, customer forums, blogs and so on? They all have to be compliant, and you may need to refer to them in the future.
  3. How do you archive a website and all its links, when it may be hosted on multiple servers using different software and possibly managed by an agency?

Corporations, government agencies and other institutions increasingly rely on web-based publications and collaboration, such as: websites, extranets, intranets, blogs, wikis, customer forums, etc. 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.

Traditional backup of databases and servers is not an option for maintaining accessible web-based information, especially where CMSs are used, utilising a broad range of technologies and systems, databases, schema and templates that inevitably evolve and are very costly to maintain beyond their period of active use.

The client-side archiving approach is the most appropriate in the corporate environment as it generates an authentic flat HTML archive, 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, as well as legal uses, such as regulatory compliance.

The first solutions for implementing this approach, as well as emerging standards in the field, are presented in this white paper.

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.

To obtain a copy of our white paper, please contact us with an outline of your interests or requirements in web archiving.