Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance) vs. Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)

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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Solix EDMS is the recognized global provider of enterprise data management solutions for information lifecycle management and compliance. It helps data migration for [application] sunsetting and upgrades, reduce storage, and secures sensitive data. Solix is considered a pioneer in providing a complete infrastructure platform to manage data across [applications], e-mail, and documents in an enterprise.

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• 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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• Automates the process for archiving and purging of historical data.
• Helps towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.
• It is the foundation for E-Discovery through long-term data retention, data masking, database audit, and enterprise search.

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• Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.

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• Still some minor upgrade on indexes of records.
• It was a bit tough to get started so user onboarding could be improved.

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It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.

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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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At the core of Solix EDMS is the Solix Enterprise Metadata Manager which manages multiple applications metadata for all data types independent of the hardware platforms. By implementing Solix, companies will keep data growth in check and lower storage costs, and improve overall system and reporting performance.

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• Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.

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• Helps create rapid database subsets for test and development.
• Benefitted from faster backup and recovery.
• Helped towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.

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