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UK LEGAL REGULATORY FRAMEWORK.

In the last few years, a number of new pieces of legislation have had a huge impact on all businesses in the UK. Click the links below to see the outline of each piece of relevant legislation-

Against this backdrop, disputes arising from, or relying on, electronic documents will become a more regular occurrence.

IMPLICATIONS FOR DIRECTORS

  • Companies and their Directors can now be held liable for electronic messages and documents (sent by themselves OR their employees.)
  • Parties can take legal action based on these documents.
  • Parties can enter into contracts based on electronic documents/email.
  • Electronic Documents can easily be lost, copied or altered, often without detection.
  • Email documents CAN assume the same legal standing of other forms of communication.

IMPACT OF EMAIL FAILURE ON PRODUCTIVITY

We are all becoming more dependant on the use of email, but the down side was illustrated when a recent study has shown that users are typically 20% less productive when the email system has crashed. It is therefore of general benefit to all users if the instances of email crashes can be reduced.

IXOS CLIENTS in the UK include:

BAe AIRBUS · Brake Bros Foodservice Ltd. · Bridgestone Firestone · British Aerospace · Cable & Wireless Communications Ltd · Centrica Plc · J.P Coats · Kraft Jacobs Suchard Ltd. · Mitsubishi Electric · News International plc · Orange Plc · Roche Products Limited · Siemens Plc. · Sony UK Limited · Tate & Lyle Sugars · The Post Office (UK) · Wilcon Homes Ltd.

 

 

Computer Security in Scotland- if you are a large or small organisation (based in Scotland or the North of England), wishing to improve computer security, then online-edge can help. We explain the risks and recommend sensible and cost-effective solutions, in language that non-experts can understand. In fact, our company philosophy is based on being easy to work with. In short, we talk -

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 Lotus Notes and MS-Exchange Archiving

Email Systems such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes/Domino provide excellent communication capabilities. Research has shown that up to 40% of many organisations' data is held within email systems, often as file attachments.

EMAIL ARCHIVING PRINCIPLES

The principle behind IXOS email archiving is to intelligently migrate most of the 'Bulk Data' from the Email Server. In typical cases, email databases can be reduced by 90% or greater. This provides a great increase in operating speed and general stability, since the effective load on the email server has been significantly reduced.

AVOIDING LOSS OF VALUABLE EMAIL DATA

A recent study indicates that over 80% of users have extreme difficulty in accessing personal email archives (such as PST files). The implications of this are quite serious, for example:

  1. Valuable time can be spent by users in trying to restore local email archives.
  2. Important information can be, and will be, lost to the organisation if it is locked in an archive file that has been corrupted or deleted.
  3. Where a tape-based backup is available, it can take hours or days of administrator time to locate and restore individual files.

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