Trusted Edge Delivers New Records Compliance Software to Support Records across Multiple Applications; New Solution Leverages IBM Records Management to Administer, Automate and Control Record Keeping at the Desktop

Business Wire, May 22, 2006

MCLEAN, Va. -- Trusted Edge today announced a new integrated compliance offering with IBM to help organizations better streamline compliance and allow customers to manage all desktop applications and files from the moment they are created using a single records management solution.

The Trusted Edge Desktop Data Management Suite is a leading open standards-based electronic records solution that manages all enterprise information throughout its lifecycle. It helps organizations centrally define policies to classify, file, retain and dispose of information on desktop PCs, laptops, file servers and content management systems throughout the enterprise. This enables all documents and emails within an organization to be automatically managed for compliance no matter what software they were created in.

Because most organizations create information in a variety of applications, heterogeneous support for records management is becoming a necessity as part of a comprehensive enterprise content management strategy. Records management solutions that support only one brand of software simply cannot accommodate ever-growing compliance needs.

The integration of Trusted Edge Desktop Data Management Suite with IBM DB2 Records Manager and IBM DB2 Content Manager comprehensively enables organizations to gain control over desktop documents across multiple application types, including IBM Lotus Notes, recent versions of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Exchange, as well as other applications and file formats.

"Trusted Edge provides the unique ability to classify any document right from the point of creation," said Jon Prial, vice president, IBM Content Management and Discovery. "For example, a document or email can be classified as a record by the user the first time the file is saved. Combined with IBM's robust content management and records management platform, this enables organizations to ensure all content can be immediately managed according to policy."

"IBM's technical and thought leadership in content and records management provides customers with an open standards approach to complete control of electronic records," say Michael Beck, CEO of Trusted Edge. "This integrated solution helps organizations control and manage all desktop documents, from creation to disposition, whether they reside in a content management or shared file system or are distributed on desktops and laptops."

Records management policies, including disposal and litigation hold, are enforced on all document copies, including those in DB2 Content Manager, on desktops, laptops and fileservers. The Trusted Edge server maintains a complete log of all document and email activity, enabling information mining, document and email forensics and compliance auditing, complementing IBM DB2 Records Manager audit trails. All desktop documents and emails are managed, tracked and controlled, from creation through disposal, according to corporate policy.

About Trusted Edge: Trusted Edge software products dramatically improve the enterprise's ability to manage its unstructured information. From its inception, Trusted Edge recognized the challenge to corporations as their volume of information grows exponentially and is distributed throughout and between enterprises. Trusted Edge has consistently pursued the notion of persistent control of information regardless of its location as the fundamental driver of a solution that would make a difference and lend itself to breakthrough applications. The company was founded in 2003, is located in the technology corridor of Northern Virginia. On the Net: www.trustededge.com