Web Archiving Services

Corporations, government agencies and institutions are increasingly required to produce website content and social media postings in their native format for compliance, records management, business intelligence and other applications. Traditional methods of printing to paper or PDF, website copiers, page archives, and file archives such as backups, are all questionable in terms of their authenticity and usefulness. Furthermore, these methods fail to collect and preserve in working order the links, website structure, playable media, and interactivity associated with websites in their native form.

A native format web archiving service is essential to a corporation’s legal and regulatory responsibilities for content published on their website, intranet, company blogs, wikis and social media. A web archiving service brings the following benefits:

• Eliminates dependencies on complex publishing environments and technical architectures, such as database, content management and publishing software.
• Manages retention and access policies independent of operational systems. E-discovery can be done without impact on current operations and services.
• Guarantees authenticity of content archived using digital signatures and robust time-stamping, ensuring consistency in an inconstant environment.
• Enables capture to be performed from the cloud or from your own infrastructure without needing privileged access to any CMS or other back-end server.
• Enables the archiving function to be centralised in one place regardless of the location of the servers and the technology used.
• Lets hosting and operations of the web archiving process and archives to be done in-house or outsourced, as archiving tools can be operated remotely.

Web archiving is a relatively new technology, commonly used by national libraries around the world for collecting web publications on a very large scale. Archival crawler technology was based on search engines and web crawlers and over the last 5-7 years has progressed rapidly, thanks to the efforts of the Internet Archive and various members of the national library community. More recently, Hanzo’s own proprietary crawlers and content capture tools have developed to better able to capture the most sophisticated websites, including rich-media and interactive content, as well as social media sites, which are increasingly prevalent in the enterprise web. While we have developed advanced tools and crawlers to capture the most complex and sophisticated modern web content and social media, our archives are fully compatible with the ISO 28500 WARC standard for web archives.

“The Coca-Cola Company have used Hanzo Archives to capture and preserve corporate and brand websites and social media sites for the past two years. Hanzo has been a great partner in this endeavor, and together we have worked to create a groundbreaking historical package. The Coca-Cola Company has been very happy with the archiving services provided by Hanzo Archives.”
says Ted Ryan of The Coca-Cola Company.

“The health insurance industry is now, more than ever, closely scrutinized by state and federal agencies and highly regulated. Archiving our web presence in this competitive market is crucial. Hanzo Archives has made us ready to respond to all requests for documentation of our marketing and legal web based content. Having our archived content preserved in its native format so that it looks and functions in perfect replication of our web site is a great representation of our company and our message.”
– Health Insurance Company Marketing Web Content Manager.

“It is impressive to see a web archiving product that can handle video, form posts, Flash and Ajax”
says industry guru Sharon D. Nelson of Sensei Enterprises Inc.

Hanzo Enterprise is the first solution to bring these benefits to the corporate world, providing full control over the lifecycle of your web content across all publications, including archiving and deletion, and provides a wide range of management functions that cover all archival needs.

Hanzo brings the best of this evolution with the first and most advanced commercial product that enables archiving of any type of web-published information, independent of the underlying publishing system and template technology used to publish the information.

Hanzo’s range of tools and services enable you to archive your websites, social media, SharePoint servers, intranet,wikis and blogs - your total web presence - and preserve the content in a secure, searchable and browsable archive. The archive will be accessible, searchable and browsable at any time, using just a web browser. It does not require backup restores, CMS’s, templates or databases to be restored. Using Hanzo tools, you will be able to archive every item of data ever published on your websites and intranet and retain it for as long as required, always accessible.

Hanzo Enterprise is the one solution that can archive and provide access to any type of Web-published content. It guarantees easy access, provides advanced search functionality across systems and time, and provides life-cycle management capabilities to ensure that enterprise memory is sustainable.