Soarsoft International information governance partner, Acaveo, named "Cool Vendor in Information Governance" by Gartner

Soarsoft International, a specialist of information governance, archive, migration, messaging and collaboration solutions and distributor of Acaveo solutions in Africa and the Middle East, has announced the inclusion of Acaveo in Gartner's Cool Vendors in Information Governance and MDM 2014 report. Acaveo is one of the world's leading innovators in information governance solutions, developing software that provides an actionable understanding of the unstructured data residing in on-premises and cloud-based repositories.

According to Michele Cantara, VP of Research at Gartner: "Rather than looking in the rear view mirror, Cool Vendors are kind of a signal of what's coming in the future. They show what's possible in terms of technologies, different approaches and different business models. It's a way for end-user organisations to 'future proof' their IT strategies to figure out where they might want to invest in the future and what they might want to keep an eye on."

Acaveo was named to this prestigious list for a number of reasons, including the fact that its solutions enable companies to automate the discovery, classification and management of unstructured data across on-premises and cloud-based data repositories. In addition, Acaveo's flagship product, Smart Information Server (SIS), supports an array of essential information governance initiatives, including: identity and access rights auditing, file server clean-up, moving data to SharePoint or the cloud, defensible deletion, eDiscovery, and more.

"According to the Gartner report: 'Massive data growth, new data types, litigation, regulatory scrutiny and privacy/information risks have all created an urgent need for information governance.' Added to this are the best practices outlined by the King III Report, and the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act in South Africa, which makes the effective data management of personal or sensitive data organisations may be keeping more important than ever. Acaveo solutions straddle the intersection of information management, eDiscovery, compliance and security, and enable organisations to govern data at its source in order to avoid overly complex and unnecessary costs," says Chris Hathaway, Director at Soarsoft International.

Acaveo has recently made its flagship product, SIS, available through its Discover Program, an economic means of accessing and utilising the software's value for short-term projects such as identity and access audits, defensible deletion, file server clean-up and consolidation, data migrations to SharePoint or the cloud, eDiscovery, etc. To learn more, contact us at info@soarsoft.co.za.

Information managers, IT storage administrators and eDiscovery professionals use our software to easily discover, analyse and manage unstructured data without the traditional complexities of moving or re-indexing the data. Acaveo's simple yet powerful technology can be used strategically to simplify information governance with in-place data management, or tactically for file server consolidation, identity and access rights audits, defensible deletion, eDiscovery, data migration and other such projects. Recently launched, the Acaveo Discover Program provides a low-cost way of getting the value of Smart Information Server (SIS). The Discover Program's 90-day engagement terms and pricing give you the full experience and value of SIS for a short-term project. To learn more and register for the Discover Program, contact Soarsoft or follow the company on Twitter @Acaveoinc or @soarsoft.