Organizations must effectively manage desktop documents and email for retention, eDiscovery, knowledge, and cost. However, users currently create, modify, share, and store documents on their desktops and network file shares without regard for corporate policy standards, organizational structure, or retention rules. The Trusted Edge® Solution overcomes this problem by automatically capturing, classifying, and managing unstructured information created, accessed, and stored at the network’s “edge” – on laptops, desktops, and file shares – where 80% of documents are created and stored.

"In essense, Trusted Edge is able to leverage policies to understand the nature and ownership of unstructured data at the edge of the enterprise and take appropriate action to ensure that it is both secured and accessible in support of the organization's goals."

Following a Trusted Edge deployment, organizations can proactively apply enterprise-wide policies to desktop information and email at the point of creation and use - and manage content based on centrally-defined business rules. Furthermore, by intelligently identifying, classifying, and securely routing critical email, documents, and files to their appropriate location with the enterprise content management or records management platform, Trusted Edge improves retention compliance, mitigates litigation risk, and reduces enterprise storage costs.

With its rich set of policy management and information management features, Trusted Edge is leveraged by organizations as a unified platform which can be deployed as the foundation for numerous enterprise solutions including:

• Email Archive with both automated and user-driven message classification
• Desktop Backup to automatically secure information from desktop and notebook-based systems
• Intelligent Content Migration from file shares and desktops to a broad range of ECM platforms
• Desktop Legal Hold using centrally managed policies
• Content Disposition that extends from the central records management environment to the edge of the enterprise

Trusted Edge provides certified connectors to enterprise content management (ECM) and records management (RM) solutions from the following industry-leading vendors: