Last night Google announced the integration of email
compliance features into Google Apps Premier Edition. They also increased the Premier Edition’s 10GB inbox to 25GB.
This is big news for Google Apps. Compliance and archiving are huge concerns for corporate customers. Just ask Intel or Merrill Lynch. Full-blown compliance systems are typically very expensive and come with liability concerns that make choosing a vendor very important. With Google in the game now, it makes the decision to move to a hosted collaboration platform like Google Apps much easier.
Some key features:
Policy management: lets administrators implement rules for how
messages are handled based on the sender, recipient, attachments or
content of the message.
Message recovery: allows you to search for mail across your whole
domain and recover deleted emails on a 90-day rolling basis, adding
peace of mind that important information is safe with Google Apps,
even in the case of accidental deletion by your users.
A full description can be seen here:
http://www.google.com/a/help
the ‘net seems to be buzzing about this a bit:
