Business Intelligence

Is your Enterprise Vault data analyzed? 

At Microsoft’s recent Inspire conference in Las Vegas, Satya Nadella quoted a statistic from Forester that 76% of data is not analyzed. 

In virtually all cases, the data sitting in an Enterprise Vault environment falls into that category.  While it is relatively easy to search on that data, it is not easy to gain insights from it.  For example: 

• How many messages have been sent to your competitor, by whom, and when?   
• How many messages did the supply manager send to a supplier over a given date range?  This may be needed if there is a potential lawsuit and they need to know how many emails may be subject to review by outside counsel.   
• Who does a given custodian communicate with most frequently? 

These types of queries can be done using Discovery Accelerator, but quite often running the searches is relegated to a small team who must keep a close eye on the demand for Enterprise Vault indexing resources. 

Having your Enterprise Vault data analyzed can unlock its value for non-technical users.    

• There would be no need to enlist the help if IT to perform such queries, and it would not compete with the existing indexes required for Discovery Accelerator searches.   
• These questions could be answered in a split second, with no strain on the indexing resources.  
• You could enable such queries to dozens of people without adverse effect on your archiving platform. 

This is all mode possible by combining our ‘Catalogue’ product with Microsoft’s business intelligence platform,  Power BI.  Searching on data in Enterprise Vault the traditional way takes minutes, and consumes valuable, limited indexing resources; searching on it with the Catalog take seconds, without consuming indexing resources, and using Business Analytics enables queries to happen at sub-second speed. 

Which way sounds better for you and your team? 

Contact us to learn how you can get more value from your archived data. 

Increasingly, enterprises need faster access to data of all types in their organizations.   

Financial institutions have a requirement to retain all emails for many, and sometimes all, employees for 6 or 7 years. It turns out this trove of data can be of value to business units if they can find a way to harness it.  Veritas Enterprise Vault ^TM customers can use the built in Search, Discovery and Compliance applications.  These applications use the Enterprise Vault indexes which unfortunately are not very fast.  Most environments have thousands of indexes, only a few of which will be in memory at any given time.  Consequently, a search using the discovery application can take several minutes. 

By creating a Catalogue of the metadata in Enterprise Vault, our Archive Accelerator Catalogue product can dramatically reduce the time it takes to do many searches.  For example, it is possible to do a search of all external email accounts that a person sent mail to over the last week in seconds, rather than minutes. 

Using the Catalogue to do such searches does require a certain amount of expertise with SQL, but the flexibility it provides is very valuable to many companies using it. 

Recently, we’ve been working with Microsoft’s Power BI (Business Intelligence) which promises to not only make it much easier to perform ad-hoc queries on the data in the Catalogue, but also speed up those searches to provide sub-second response times.  This is finally bringing the ‘Google-like’ experience to this data set that many companies have dreamed of. 

Anyone can use Power BI today to build reports such as the one above using Archive Accelerator Catalogue, but we at Vault Solutions are working on templates to make it easier.  Please contact us if you’re interested in learning more.