We have seen that there are a few ways in which you can achieve an archive exchange synergy.  You can do it all yourself and handle all the issues that come with it.  You can also contract a third party to do most of the work for you and license you a product you can use on site.

There is a third way.  There are vendors out there that will take all of the pain away from your email archiving responsibilities.  The solution is called SaaS or Software as a Service.  This is a method of providing applications remotely while allowing users to access them over a private network or over the internet.  Also referred to as 'Software on Demand' this is the most flexible and scalable system currently on the market.

GoogleMail is a version of SaaS.  You can access it securely over the internet and do almost everything online that you could in your Outlook or other mail client.  This gives you tremendous flexibility as you can access it whenever and wherever you like.

From a buyers perspective this is an excellent solution to their email archiving compliance needs as all of the hardware and support infrastructure is handled by the vendor.  This saves a significant amount of time and money, let alone the confidence that your needs are being met 24/7.

Companies like www.archivecompliance.com are one such outfit that handle these type of issues.  For a set monthly fee they can provide a reliable, resilient and cost-effective email archive solution to fit almost any situation.  This leaves business to do what they do best, do business.