IBM Content Collector

Provides archiving solutions to help you realize the business value of your information

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Overview

Manage enterprise-wide information

IBM Content Collector is a family of products designed to collect, enhance and manage email, file systems and SAP data and documents. Its capabilities identify and archive content based on business value and ensure that critical content is protected and retained. The comprehensive set of solutions offers a strategy to extract value from your content.

Products

IBM Content Collector for Email
Capture and archive email from Exchange or Domino environments, including Exchange Online, to support compliance and reduce storage costs. Manage email within IBM ECM systems, ensuring retention, protection, and defensible disposal across a unified content management environment.
IBM Content Collector for File Systems
Control documents on network file shares through deduplication, compression and retention functions.
IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications
Delivers value based archiving for SAP applications.
IBM Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint
Deploy a comprehensive SharePoint collection and archive strategy.

Features

Designed for scalable content governance

Content Collector for Email provides automated, policy-driven email archiving from mailboxes on various email systems. This helps manage information and fulfill legal requirements.

Content Collector for SAP Applications enables you to collect, archive and manage SAP-generated data in an integrated, security-rich repository using your ECM platform.

Content Collector for File Systems enables users to control documents on network file shares and can be configured to automatically capture documents as they are placed in a monitored location.

Content Collector is designed to allow system operators to define policies about how rarely used data can be archived and removed from source systems.

Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint enables users to capture content from SharePoint for long-term archive, compliance or other business-driven reasons.

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Use cases

Managing content across key business needs

IBM Content Collector helps organizations capture, manage, and govern business content across systems. It supports regulatory compliance, cost optimization, and lifecycle control by ensuring critical information is retained, archived, and disposed of efficiently.
Archive email, files, and social data

Collect and archive email, files, and social business content based on business value and regulatory requirements. Ensure critical communications are preserved, searchable, and compliant across distributed systems.
Manage retention and compliance needs

Retain, protect, and defensibly dispose of content according to policy. Reduce risk and over-retention while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate governance standards.
Optimize storage costs and performance

Archive and migrate content to lower-cost storage tiers to reduce infrastructure costs. Improve system performance by managing data efficiently across storage environments.
Manage SAP content lifecycle and linking

Integrate with SAP to manage document linking, lifecycle processes, and the collection of structured and unstructured content. Ensure seamless governance and accessibility within enterprise content management systems.

Resources

Expert guidance on content governance

Creating value-based archiving solutions with IBM Content Collector
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