Search: The Business Challenge

The Simpana® Search web interface services the growing demands of business compliance and legal discovery teams as well as end-users. It includes capabilities designed to assist organizations in responding to legal discovery actions and compliance audits. It enables higher levels of business productivity and competitiveness by offering users direct access to data.

The Simpana Search web interface allows search, sort, select and retrieve of corporate files and information from online, archive, and backup data copies. This allows for rapid retrieval of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) when litigation is pending. Timely responsiveness is a key requirement in providing information for meet-and-confer sessions, as is being emphasized with amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). Having powerful search at business-user's fingertips provides peace of mind that all data can be searched and subsequently put on legal hold, as required.

Legal Discovery and Business Compliance Benefits

• Simplify, speed and reduce the cost of enterprise-wide eDiscovery
• Reduce the legal cost of discovery by removing more extraneous data earlier in the process
• Lower risks by providing legal teams with direct control of legal hold actions
• Improve and simplify responses to business compliance inquiries and audits
• Enable discovery teams to work together more easily to search and review relevant files and messages

IT Productivity Benefits

• Reduce and alleviate the burden on administrators supporting legal discovery and business compliance audits
• Reduce and alleviate the burden on administrators to recover files and messages on behalf of users
• Easily control user access to data with CommVault User Group definition leveraging Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
• Point-and-click audit reporting

User Productivity Benefits

• Improve end-user productivity and business competitiveness
• Enable fast and easy search for files on a user’s own desktop including Microsoft Office, text, messages, and other files

In addition to the Simpana Search web interface, administrators working with Simpana software have expansive search capabilities in the unified console interface. Content Indexing enables keyword search, for end-users, business teams and administrators.