Looks like Quest Software have finally given up on their Archive Manager offering in favour of a new acquisition of New Zealand-based AfterMail. This is good for two reasons; firstly, Archive Manager wasn't a great success - using yet another Exchange server as the DB tp store archived emails made it a little pointless to many. Secondly AfterMail is a pretty good product that had very little support outside NZ, certainly when I looked at the product about 12 months ago the thing that put me off adopting it was the lack of Sales/Commercial support in the UK. AfterMail has a lot of good features, most notably the ability to integrate with other applications such as CRM to show email conversations that are relevant to x customer, along with the traditional CRM tracking of telephone calls. Its also pretty open, so supports Exchange, Domino and a host of other mail systems. That open-ness, unlike KVS, allows you to utilise the archiving product as a migration tool when moving between vendor products. Sweet.
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