AvePoint Recognized in Gartner’s Market Guide for Data-Centric Audit and Protection
Jersey City, NJ (PRWEB) January 14, 2016 -- AvePoint, the established leader in enabling enterprise collaboration across platforms and devices, today announced it has been named to the Gartner 2016 Market Guide for Data-Centric Audit and Protection (DCAP). The DCAP Market Guide outlines the status of the emerging market in order to help organizations make purchasing decisions suited to their technology needs.
According to Gartner, DCAP is a category of products characterized by the ability to centrally manage data security policies and controls across unstructured, semi-structured and structured repositories or silos. Within its matrix comparing DCAP vendor capabilities, Gartner lists AvePoint for integrated policies, data classification, and data discovery across multiple data silos – including file shares, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Office 365.
“Companies have been using AvePoint solutions to discover sensitive information, analyze system security, and check for Key Control Indicators across enterprise collaboration systems in order to better respond to audits for many years,” said John Hodges, Vice President of Product Strategy, AvePoint. “AvePoint’s inclusion in the DCAP Market Guide underscores the capabilities our software has to create a safe and well-governed place for data.”
AvePoint solutions for DCAP provide the following capabilities to organizations:
Discovery and Classification: Understand important information by easily finding and classifying data based on organizational need.
Simplified Governance: Empower users to easily collaborate and ensure corporate policies are met by automating processes.
Proactive Enforce Policies: Ensure all actions by your users fall within defined policies with real-time monitoring and restoration.
Audit and Reporting: Provide auditable data access reports and prove policies safeguard against malicious behavior.
“With data breaches making headlines and major new data protection laws slated to take effect in 2016, organizations must be aware of the data they hold and how it is protected against potential leaks,” said Dana Simberkoff, Chief Compliance and Risk Officer, AvePoint. “Gartner’s new report provides a comprehensive view of the DCAP landscape for those who are looking for guidance on vendor capabilities – giving a clear understanding of how AvePoint solutions keep data secure across platforms.”
To learn more about AvePoint’s solutions for DCAP, please visit our website; and to read the full Gartner 2016 Market Guide for DCAP, please visit the Gartner website.
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About AvePoint
AvePoint is the established leader in enabling enterprise collaboration across platforms and devices. Focusing on helping enterprises in their digitization journey to enable their information workers to collaborate with confidence, AvePoint is first to market with a unique solution that centralizes access and control of information assets residing in disparate collaboration and document management systems on-premises and in the cloud. AvePoint solutions and services aim to bring together business, IT, as well as compliance and risk officers to serve key business objectives such as big data, cloud integration, compliance, enterprise content management, and mobile data access monitoring.
Founded in 2001 and based out of Jersey City, NJ, AvePoint serves over 15,000 organizations and 3 million Office 365 users in five continents across all industry sectors, with focused practices in the energy and utilities; financial services; healthcare and pharmaceuticals; and public sector industries. AvePoint is a Microsoft Global ISV Partner, Gold Certified Collaboration and Content Partner, Gold Certified Cloud Platform Partner, winner of the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Collaboration and Content in 2015 and Public Safety and National Security in 2014, as well as a US Government GSA provider via strategic partnerships. AvePoint is privately held and backed by Goldman Sachs and Summit Partners.
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Heather Aponte, AvePoint, http://utm.io/183141, 201-793-1111 Ext: 1783, [email protected]
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