Viewpointe and ZL Technologies Extend Alliance

Viewpointe Archive Services, LLC, a private-cloud service provider to regulated industries, announced the extension of its partnership with ZL Technologies, Inc. (ZL), in unified information governance for enterprise unstructured big data.

Under the strategic alliance agreement extension, Viewpointe and ZL will continue to jointly provide services to customers, integrating the ZL Unified Archive (ZL UA) architecture into core components of Viewpointe’s information governance platform, OnPointe. Viewpointe and ZL have been working in partnership since 2012 providing customers with advanced analytics, records and retention management, supervision and end-to-end eDiscovery capabilities – deployed in the cloud as a managed service through OnPointe.

“Through our ongoing alliance, we have successfully implemented best-of-breed capabilities into our Information Governance platform, OnPointe, for some of the largest global brands,” said William Shute, Viewpointe chief strategy and marketing officer. “Our growing partnership and innovative approach to the market enables customers to leverage ZL’s best-in-class technology coupled with Viewpointe’s unique expertise, knowledge and private cloud delivery model.“

Since 2013, ZL has been recognized as a leader in that Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving, where it also acknowledged Viewpointe as one of its strategic channel partners and specialty cloud providers. ZL was named in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant, which also identified Viewpointe as a ‘notable vendor,’ highlighting OnPointe’s ability to support a variety of content and provide a scalable infrastructure to manage archiving, content management, retention management, text analytics and eDiscovery.

Kon Leong, CEO ZL Technologies, said: “We’ve long catered to the unique demands of highly regulated organizations, and we continue to see great value in our relationship with Viewpointe as we expand into new markets and industries. Our partnership empowers a truly innovative and secure option for cloud-based information governance that meets the exacting requirements of the large enterprise.“

The technical and product collaboration delivered through a managed service has provided an alternative to many well-known solution providers, and afforded both Viewpointe and ZL opportunities to jointly help some of the largest global organizations that are looking for a secure, scalable, agile solution to their information governance challenges.

“This alliance extension speaks volumes about the strength and uniqueness of our relationship with ZL,” said Viewpointe chairman and CEO Lou Buglioli. “This partnership has already successfully migrated and deployed numerous customers serving in excess of 200,000 employees; and we anticipate growing that figure over the term of the extended partnership.“

OnPointe provides a sophisticated governance solution to help organizations keep pace with growing data volumes and the variety of data formats spread across the organization that challenge user productivity, IT efficiency, corporate agility and compliance efforts. Enabling centralized policy enforcement to manage, archive and govern enterprise data while reducing the TCO via a cloud-based service, OnPointe provides customers with a modernized, secure and scalable solution.

Built as a flexible, modular service that can grow with an organization as it embraces information governance one challenge at a time, the OnPointe platform leverages the ZL Unified Archive to provide focused governance solutions to address:

• Governance of email, electronic messaging and social media
• Supervision of regulated communications
• Control of previously unmanaged file share and collaborative content
• Management of end-to-end eDiscovery processing and workflow
  

With one of the largest, most secure national archives of digital information in the cloud, Viewpointe enables organizations to manage their enterprise content, via a managed private cloud. With a combination of technology and services, the OnPointe platform is delivered in a secure, scalable and cost-effective manner. OnPointe provides focused information governance solutions for messaging, file shares, enterprise applications, print streams and eDiscovery.