Orchestria Integration with IBM E-Mail Archiving Software Helps Customers Better Enforce Compliance in Electronic Communication
New York, NY - August 8, 2006

Orchestria Corporation, a global leader in software that helps organizations assure that their employees comply with critical regulatory and company policies associated with electronic communication, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced Orchestria's software now interoperates with IBM Content Manager and CommonStore for Messaging.

Together, the software provides a new approach for organizations that are concerned about messaging governance. This includes help in the prevention of corporate and regulatory policy violations, identification of non-compliant messages and the capability of intelligent review and more effective supervision of Web mail, corporate e-mail and instant messages.

Orchestria's Active Policy Management approach enables policies to be accurately enforced instantly as the user presses the send button, by applying corporate and regulatory policies across all key electronic communication channels including e-mail, instant messages, Web mail and blogs.

IBM CommonStore for Messaging provides e-mail archiving and retrieval of e-mail and attachments for any Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange database or server platform. It helps improve e-mail system performance, provides virtually unlimited user mailbox space and helps reduce the size of e-mail databases to reduce storage costs. This integration between IBM and Orchestria software helps assure good messaging governance across all electronic communication from creation or receipt of a message, through to archiving.

The combined Orchestria and IBM software together can help customers:

• Solve the "smoking gun" problem by helping eliminate communication violations from occurring;
• Enable targeted review by removing irrelevant messages from the review queue;
• Enable self-governance by providing rich interaction with the user ranging from block, warn, or quarantine to continue current operation, depending upon the severity of the violation;
• Capture and pass rich event data, such as when a policy-violating event occurred, which policy was violated and by whom; and
• Analyze messages sent and received by both internal and external recipients.

"Significantly increased data volumes will inevitably require more sophisticated, increasingly automated message review solutions in order to more accurately identify potential policy infractions." explained Brian Babineau, an analyst with leading industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. "Through its partnership with Orchestria, IBM can now provide its customers with an integrated message management solution that will ensure comprehensive governance from policy enforcement through to archiving. This provides IBM customers with greater control over the vast amounts of e-mail that businesses create on a daily basis."

"Messaging governance concerns every organization," said Bo Manning, chief executive officer, Orchestria. "By working with IBM we are expanding the reach of our award-winning solution, thereby driving innovation and accessing the global deployment capabilities offered by IBM's consulting and services teams."

About Orchestria
Orchestria enables companies to control their electronic communication to defend against confidential data leakage, enforce regulatory compliance, protect intellectual property, adhere to critical financial and legal controls, and ensure appropriate employee behavior.

Orchestria adds controls to the use of electronic communication such as e-mail, instant messages, web transactions and mobile devices and is used by Fortune 500 companies to implement and maintain good messaging governance. It is relied on by 90 customers in 33 countries including organizations such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and St. Paul Travelers, which require the speed and flexibility of e-mail and other forms of electronic communication without exposing themselves to the risks inherent in these uncontrolled interactions.

Orchestria's approach works in real-time and is unique in its ability to analyze all common electronic communication channels to determine their context and content with unparalleled accuracy and to discern the user's intent. It prevents inappropriate communication from ever being sent ensuring they are not archived for later discovery. Orchestria also guides and advises end-users while preserving workflow. It is integrated with leading archive vendors including Symantec, ZANTAZ, IBM and Iron Mountain Digital.

The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York. More details can be found at www.orchestria.com.

For more information:
Stephanie Powers
Orchestria
+1 212-402-3336
stephanie.powers@orchestria.com

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