Links, Papers and Resources for the Email Corpus Management Community

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Papers

Email Archiving and Email Filing - What's the Difference? (And Why are Both Important?)
IT teams and businesses have been talking about “email archiving” for a long time, but Topaz Filer is an “email filing” product.  What’s the difference?  In this article we’ll take you through both types of system and explain why both are important.

Bringing Email Filing to Business - What our customers always say when they want to talk about email filing
The intention of this paper is to discuss some of the common items that come up when we’re talking to customers about implementing an email filing system.  It includes topics on shared email repositories, closing off project files, replacing printed records, security and reducing the size of the email store.

.PST Files, .PST Problems and .PST Hell
A “.PST file” is a type of file that is used by Microsoft Outlook as a container for email messages.  As well as being a native storage format, users can create separate .PST files to store and archive emails into.  For example, a company may create a .PST file for a project or set of projects, or .PST files for periods of time.  This paper illustrates some of the problems with .PST files.

An Impartial Treatise on Using Google Apps as a Replacement for Microsoft Exchange
At AMX Software, our primary interest is in helping companies manage their email corpus more efficiently, and in such a way that controls risk and helps increase regulatory compliance.  As such, we have some interest in the IT systems that organisations use in order to actually send and receive email communications.  Google Apps offers significant competition to organisations currently basing "groupware" solutions on Microsoft Exchange.  This article discusses the pros and cons of each, and answers important questions related to responsibility and security.

Choosing the Best SharePoint Version for Your Firm
Microsoft SharePoint can be a great way for firms to manage any matter related documentation, including emails.  But with Microsoft offering a free version under the name Windows SharePoint Services and a paid version called Microsoft Office SharePoint Services, how do you choose the most appropriate one?

10 Benefits of Email Filing
For this article, we wanted to look at the ways in which a slick, well-oiled electronic email filing system could offer real benefits to you, your team and your organisation.  We thought of these ten...