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Case Study : Forensic Communication archiving and compliance solution


Product/Project Name

Forensic Communication archiving and compliance solution

Client Profile

Our client is a UK based world's leading forensic archiving and compliance solution provider for email, instant messaging and other electronic records. Enterprises, businesses and governments rely on it’s solution r for assurance surrounding the retention and access of critical business, operational and publicly held information.

Duration

May 2004 – Till Date

Team Size

9

Project/Product Description

Product intercepts email traffic (the means of interception depending on the type of traffic involved -- SMTP, Exchange, Notes, Sun ONE and so on) and copies it for storage and indexing. A search engine is provided that can query large volumes of archived email by content including any attachments and metadata.

 

As relevant for government agencies, global corporations and small businesses, an organisation's communication system and associated backup files now constitute a critical hub of information. Today, email and other forms of electronic communication are used to convey and store a wide range of material.

  • Contracts and subsequent variations to contract terms
  • Financial performance and planning data
  • Health and Safety notices
  • Human Resources records
  • Legal advice
  • Intellectual property (e.g. designs, business plans, processes etc...)

Technologies

Language Java, XML ,C++, WIN32 SDK, MFC, COM, DCOM, MS Exchange Framework, VS 6.0, MAPI Framework, VS 2005, WinDBG, MSXML, Linux\Unix Shell Scripts
Frameworks RMI, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, Struts, Tiles, Lucene, Apache POI, PDF-Box, JCIF, Castor, LDAP
Bulit Framework Ant
Transports RMI over SSL, HTTPS
Front End HTML, DHTML, Advanced Java Scripts
Optimizer Tools Eclipse Profiler Plugin
App Servers Tomcat
Databases MYSQL, Derby, Lucene
Platforms Windows, Exchange 2003,Exchange 2007, SuSE Linux, Redhat Linux
Outlook Outlook 2000,2003 and 2007 with SP2 and SP3

 

Challenges

Took the complete product development ownership from Corporate Internet (CI) Engineering team in very short span of time Faced rigorous performance issues before release of 1.4 version that were successfully handled.

Achievements

PSI has played a very crucial role in managing the product for last 4 years; involved in architecture, development, feature enhancements, integration and its QA.

 

PSI optimized and made the Product 1.3 version, a robust product. Analyzed and fixed many critical issues on several live Product sites and restored the system back in real time.

 

Involved in architecture and design of Product’s 1.4 version; a complete revamped version of product, which supports compliance of Instant Messages along with emails. Product is re-designed to handle multiple document types like web pages etc. and it handles the processing of duplicate documents, which is required with many email servers like Group wise

 

Overall added several crucial features in product like supporting additional Journaling modes, adding message delete feature, management reporting, global search, message monitoring framework and attachment-processing framework.

 

Successfully Integrated MS Outlook with Product