ORLANDO, Fla.Sept. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Microsoft Ignite — Actiance®, the leader in communications compliance, archiving, and analytics, today announced at Microsoft’s annual Ignite Conference capture and archiving support for Microsoft Teams, a real-time collaboration hub that’s bringing new levels of efficiency to the enterprise.

Actiance Vantage for Microsoft Teams enables customers to capture Microsoft Teams messaging and files and then send to their electronic communications archive of choice for long-term retention. When used in conjunction with Actiance Alcatraz, the company’s context-aware cloud archive, customers can replay Microsoft Teams communications along with those taking place on more than 80 other communications channels such as email, secure text messaging, unified communications and social media, for a holistic view of all communications through the Actiance compliance platform.

Bringing the full benefits of collaboration to the regulated enterprise

Adoption of Microsoft Teams is growing fast, and a recent study by Spiceworks projects that it may be the second most commonly used workplace messaging platform by 2018. However, organizations in highly regulated industries like financial services face regulatory challenges, as they must meet strict records retention requirements set by regulatory bodies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), among others. In addition, government organizations that use Microsoft Teams must retain and produce public records to meet federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state open records laws.

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