Smarsh Named a Leader in 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant For Enterprise Information Archiving

Electronic communications retention and oversight critical for Mifid II compliance

Smarsh^® today announced that analyst firm Gartner Smarsh a Leader in its 2017 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving for the third consecutive year. The report provides a detailed overview of the EIA market, and evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

In this year’s Magic Quadrant, Smarsh is positioned furthest to the right overall based on its completeness of vision and second-highest based on its ability to execute.

“Over the past three years as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving, we have continued to move further to the right for completeness of vision,” said Stephen Marsh, CEO of Smarsh. “We believe this recognition validates Smarsh leadership and innovation in helping the market tackle compliance and e-discovery challenges, as well as our mission to enable customers to compliantly and responsibly leverage more and more forms of electronic communications for business.”

With The Archiving Platform™ from Smarsh, organizations capture, retain, search and produce content across a broad range of electronic communications, including email, mobile text messaging, social media, instant messaging, websites and voice. Content is immutably retained, indexed and stored in a search-ready state, and can be supervised and produced in support of compliance, e-discovery and risk management efforts.

Over the past 18 months, major drivers and enhancements to Smarsh business have included:

• Acquisition of London-based Cognia, and the introduction of archiving for mobile and fixed-line voice communication through the, rounding out Smarsh solutions for MiFID II compliance.
• Archiving support for new forms of messaging and collaboration, developed in partnership with leading messaging providers such as Slack and Workplace by Facebook.
• Acquisition of MobileGuard, and growth in adoption of Smarsh solutions for text message archiving. Smarsh provides solutions for both corporate-issued devices (with content captured directly from leading international mobile carriers) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scenarios.
• Continued momentum in the public sector. Adoption of Smarsh services at the federal, state and local level, in support of records retention and e-discovery initiatives.
• Expansion of the Smarsh Partner Ecosystem. Best-of-breed, platform-complementing partnerships are helping to solve customer challenges in both North America and Europe.
• Launch of the Smarsh Central community, with consolidated technical support, training and administration access for customers.

Download the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving here. For more information about Smarsh and The Archiving Platform, visit www.smarsh.eu.