Unlike other vendors, who take a monolithic approach, Orchestria's distributed architecture intelligently apply policy both before and after an electronic action is taken. This flexible approach allows customers to deploy the right combination of Policy Agents to meet their messaging needs, rather than being forced in any particular direction:

Unified Platform
Centralized Management Server	Orchestria CMS is the central point where policies are created and pushed out to the control agents. In parallel, all captured data is returned from the agents to the CMS for reporting and review. In the case where the agent is disconnected from the CMS, the last remaining set of policies continue to be enforced and all captured data is held. Once a connection is reestablished, new policies are sent out and captured data is returned to the CMS.
Control Agents
Client Agents	Orchestria Client Agents operate at the endpoint whether connected or disconnected. They apply policy before an electronic action, such as messaging, web or file activity, ever leave a users machine. Client Agents have the advantage of being able to provide instant feedback to the user by intelligently analyzing election action prior to encryption. Client Agents support popular applications including Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Multi-user Client Agents for Citrix and similar thin-client server environments are also available.
Server Agents	These agents provide real-time application of policy at a server level. Agents are currently available for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino servers, while Bloomberg LP provides Orchestria customers with access to embedded agents as a fully integrated component of the Bloomberg Professional® service. Server Agents operate prior to the processing of the message, web or file activity, thereby ensuring that electronic actions are in violation are not completed. Client and Server Agents can be used in a hybrid mode, whereby the Server Agent only processes electronic actions which have not already had policy applied at the client. This avoids duplication of effort, while ensuring that messages from secondary clients, such as Outlook Web Access and Blackberry or any third party unmanaged devices, still have full policy applied.
Network Agents	The Network Agent allows electronic action, including message, web and file activity, from any source to have real-time policy applied, usually (though not exclusively) at the network boundary. This ensures that the use of non-standard email systems, such as those embedded into applications, generated by back office solutions, or from unauthorized systems, remains fully protected.
Import Agents	These agents ingest messages post-send, applying policy primarily for review purposes. Import Agents are available for the live ingest of e-mail from Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino Journals, as well as batch ingest from PST, MSG, EML, NSF and Bloomberg files. Instant Messages may be ingested from Bloomberg, IMLogic, FaceTime, MindAlign and other systems.
Archive Agents	Archive Agents These agents provide integration with popular email archiving solutions, preventing long-term duplication of stored messages, while allowing high speed access during the review period. Archive Agents can also provide real-time contextual meta-data to the archive, facilitating selective archiving, policy based retention, optimization, categorization and intelligence. Archive Agents are available for archiving solutions from IBM, EMC, Symantec, Iron Mountain and others.
Pre Built IP
Integration API’s	In order to leverage your existing infrastructure and control the entire life cycle of electronic action control, Orchestria integrates with many archiving vendors and other technology partners.
Workflow Applications	To streamline the electronic actions, which are mission critical to business, Orchestria provides a solution that fits into your existing business operations to enhance your current workflow with an easy way to ensure that all electronic actions are compliant.
Queries/Reports	With robust reports and search queries, substantial ramp up time is avoided. The learning curve is greatly reduced and the most common reports and queries are at your fingertips

Any number of Policy Engines can be accessed by one or more messaging servers, with automatically load balancing across them. Policy Engines can be added or removed 'on the fly' to allow for periods of peak operation, as well as for scheduled or unscheduled downtime.