Enterprise Bank Chooses Mimosa's NearPoint

Massachusetts' Enterprise Bank (www.ebtc.com) has purchased  Mimosa NearPoint, from California's Mimosa Systems (www.mimosasystems.com). NearPoint captures e-mail, files, Microsoft SharePoint content, instant messages, and other data. It can be used to support legal search workflow, employee supervision, mailbox/message recovery, and disaster recovery, Mimosa explains.

Paul Rosseau, the bank's vice president of technology services, said CA and EMC were considered, but ultimately Mimosa won the deal because of ability to support e-mail archiving. The bank, which as 16 branch offices, recently migrated from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange. NearPoint for Exchange was installed in the bank's virtualized infrastructure, and the bank plans to add SharePoint archiving support in the near future, he said. It is being used to provide content archiving, e-discovery (including individual-item level legal holds), and user searches, among other functions.

The self-search function helps individuals recover e-mail, contacts, or calendar items, without IT intervention. The new system also helps the bank's legal and human resources staff conduct e-discovery tasks without assistance.

Rosseau also cited the system's ability to "not put any overhead on our Exchange server." The architecture does not require "journaling" or any agents, on either the Exchange Server or user desktops, says Mimosa, to avoid any impact on the bank's Exchange Server performance. 

E-discovery features include individual item-level legal holds, conversation and proximity analysis, and intuitive search.

The IT department can set poliicies to scan file shares and capture files. Captured files are indexed and archived; then NearPoint FSA de-duplicates across multiple file shares, as well as across messages and attachments. 

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