On April 2, 2009 EMC finally announced the long-awaited replacement of EmailXtender. No surprise. Actually, it looks like they tried to announce it on April 1 and then pulled all the links—perhaps it was feared it would be seen as an April Fool’s joke. What isn’t a joke is that this product, called SourceOne Email Management, is actually not a one-source archive solution—yet. Like its predecessor, it does still archive one overall type of content: messaging. EMC says that later this year they will release file, XML, and SharePoint archiving. So, that’s when it will be “one source”? Not exactly. Why? Because the SourceOne product family is not integrated. Give them twelve to eighteen months—hey, they promised after all.
Bottom line: EMC’s announcement does not compare to the breadth and range of HP’s current offerings, and EMC is more than six months late to market with a product that does not even fulfill what they previously communicated to customers in terms of their key archiving needs. Furthermore, the release of SourceOne Email Management is a replacement for EmailXtender, and what EMC is delivering with this release is a mere promise of what this product could become in the next year to eighteen months. In these economic times, we need more than promises to show ROI like what HP IAP customers have been achieving for more than four years:
--Improving staff productivity by up to 80%, and email- and file-based productivity by over 34%
--Lowering email and document processing, review, and production costs by up to 90%
--Reducing time needed to analyze email and documents from weeks to minutes
--Achieving control of their corporate data, improving information governance
Posted
04-03-2009 5:51 PM
by
Lisa Dali