Arctera takes compliance platform down SaaS street

Arctera is moving to a subscription business model for its unified platform of communications governance offerings.

The Arctera Unified Platform (AUP) combines capture, archiving, classification, surveillance, and eDiscovery into a single, integrated platform, with a shared data foundation. AUP operates as a continuous governance loop, establishing a complete, defensible record of communications across the lifecycle. It says its new SaaS operating model delivers compliance as a unified, cloud-based service and enables customers to extend compliance across systems, data sources, and workflows. 

Soniya Bopache, GM and SVP at Arctera, said: "Enterprise compliance is no longer system-specific, rather it has become a system-wide requirement. Organizations must apply governance consistently across everything they manage. Arctera's SaaS model is designed to help organizations maintain compliance as their needs expand, without being constrained by challenges of legacy systems." 

The company says legacy approaches, which have point products and silos, struggle to keep pace as data volumes grow and operating environments evolve. Its SaaS-based AUP enables consistent, scalable, context-preserving governance across 130-plus data sources without data movement, duplication, or reprocessing.

Arctera says its SaaS operating model brings together product, engineering, and go-to-market teams under a unified structure focused on delivering cloud-based compliance capabilities at scale. It claims governance can be applied across communications, data systems, and workflows without introducing fragmentation or operational overhead. 

Cloud Software Group owns Arctera, which includes the Enterprise Vault products. It has launched Enterprise Vault as a standalone business unit focused on compliance, governance, and data control, led by Soniya Bopache. We're told that, for existing Enterprise Vault customers, the launch will not disrupt current deployments, support, or roadmaps.

Customers requiring on-premises support for its Enterprise Vault offering will continue to be served through a dedicated organization, ensuring continuity and ongoing service.

Read up on the Arctera Unified Platform here and download a datasheet here.

Comment

Compliance with industry and country-specific regulations is a cost that has to be borne by businesses operating in those environments. It's simply a burden, an expense, and anything that makes the generation of compliance data and its management more efficient is worth looking at. Arctera's unified platform concept seems a useful approach.

The SaaS business model provides easy resource scalability for customers, as well as giving Arctera a more reliable revenue stream.