CYA was selected for this honor because its CYA SmartRecovery™ solution helps enable IBM ECM to achieve its objective of helping IBM FileNet P8 customers reduce the costs and risks related to electronic information management. FileNet P8 customers are facing more pressure than ever before to protect and preserve their ECM information, and CYA SmartRecovery is the piece of the puzzle that helps them do that in a cost-effective manner without taking systems offline.
According to the AIIM 2007 State of the ECM Industry Survey, mitigating the risks associated with compliance and business continuity has emerged as the number one reason companies are investing in ECM systems - 43% of respondents selected this as their most significant business driver, an increase of over 16% from 2006. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure eDiscovery Amendment, effective December 1, 2006, as well as numerous industry-specific and government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, FDA CFR Part 11, and SEC 17a-4, mandate the preservation and authenticity of content and its associated metadata (audit trails, digital signatures, renditions, etc.) regardless of information complexity. They also require that companies produce information in its original state and in a timely manner when requested for a trial, audit, or inspection. Potential consequences of non-compliance include heavy fines, negative brand exposure, and removal of products from the market.
CYA SmartRecovery helps IBM FileNet P8 customers facilitate compliance and reduce eDiscovery obstacles by ensuring the integrity and granular recoverability of FileNet P8 information in response to data corruption and partial information loss incidents without having to take the FileNet P8 repository offline. According to AIIM International and Strategic Research Inc., partial information loss incidents account for more than 80% of ECM system data loss. The solution also helps achieve the highest FileNet P8 availability possible by performing “hot” (online), synchronous backups of content and metadata.
“If ECM is truly a ‘mission-critical’ enterprise resource as the 50,000+ associates and members of AIIM believe, and a complex solution at that - as anyone who has deployed such as system will acknowledge - then clearly the ability to maintain suitable business continuity and granular recovery capabilities that specifically address ‘enterprise content’ is an inevitability that would be best to address sooner rather than later,” said Dan Keldsen, Director of Market Intelligence at AIIM – The ECM Association (www.aiim.org). “From a litigation standpoint, all it takes is one corrupt link to destroy the validity of your evidence. From a revenue-generating standpoint, lost TTM (time-to-market) due to human error, a process glitch, or virus is the last thing that any company wants to experience and therefore precautions should be taken to ensure that complex ECM information is fully recoverable.”
“We’re very honored to receive this award, which is truly a testimony to our close working relationship with IBM ECM,” said Wayne Crandall, president and CEO of CYA Technologies. “Partnering with IBM has enabled us to deliver innovative, high value solutions that make a real difference to their customers’ bottom lines.”
About CYA Technologies
CYA Technologies provides the only end-to-end portfolio of granular recovery, object integrity, and asynchronous replication solutions for enterprise content management (ECM) systems. CYA solutions protect over one thousand repositories at more than 250 global organizations including DuPont, SwissRe, Standard & Poor’s, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Gruenthal, British Petroleum and the U.S. Army. The company is privately funded and headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut with regional offices through the United States and Europe. CYA solutions are available worldwide through over two dozen authorized VARs and systems integrators.
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Contacts:
Lauren LaFronz
CYA Technologies
203.513.3111 x 531
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Topaz Partners
781.404.2400
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