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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM InfoSphere Optim

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AIBM InfoSphere® Optim™ solutions manage data from requirements to retirement, to improve governance across applications, databases and platforms by managing data properly, enabling organizations to support business goals with less risk.N/A

    Proofpoint Archive

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AProofpoint Enterprise Archive is a cloud-based file archiving system which provides a central, searchable repository of a wide range of content types without the headaches of managing an archive in-house.N/A

    Smarsh

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Smarsh Enterprise Platform is a unified, cloud-native solution designed to future-proof enterprise communications data strategies. Its technologies include elastic compute, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    IBM InfoSphere OptimProofpoint ArchiveSmarsh
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    7.5
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    8.1
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Optim is especially recommended for those companies that have their own or third-party development teams that must be provided with a complete data environment to test the applications. Optim is not recommended for use as an ETL or Data Integration tool.
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    Proofpoint
    As a business archiving software, Proofpoint Enterprise Archive offers the best security features, it's scalable, highly secure, and most importantly, it's cloud-based. All these features make it irresistible.
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    Smarsh
    This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Easily extract data from production environments with no-coding
    • Intelligent filtering capabilities using physical or logical relationships.
    • Advanced data masking funtions
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    Smarsh
    • Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
    • Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
    • Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
    • Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Poor UI
    • Complex architecture
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    Proofpoint
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    Smarsh
    • Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Smarsh
    It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Smarsh
    This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Optim can save companies a lot of money by protecting the sensitive data found in their databases, thus avoiding the theft of real customer information with the economic and media impact that this has.
    • Accelerate the generation of non-productive environments saving time from human resources.
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    Proofpoint
    • With Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, we never worry about data loss thanks to the easing of archiving and retrieval.
    • The software is highly secure guaranteeing the security of our business files.
    • Searching through the archive is easy.
    • It's scalable which is a plus.
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    Smarsh
    • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
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