Information archiving and management platform company Archive360 Inc. today announced a new collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to deliver artificial intelligence-powered eDiscovery and compliance solutions.

The collaboration sees Archive360’s governed data cloud combined with Microsoft’s AI capabilities through Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models to allow large enterprises to conduct sophisticated investigations while maintaining strict data governance and regulatory compliance.

The collaboration between Archive360 and Microsoft seeks to address the issue where compliance officers, human resources investigators and insider threat analysts must be able to quickly identify and analyze potential policy violations, fraud, workplace harassment, or other areas of misconduct across vast amounts of data that’s being archived. Archive360 argues that in many organizations, the data needed has been historically trapped in source applications and other complex isolated data silos, which makes it difficult to find and govern.

With the new integration, AI agents built using Azure technologies can be used to obtain data from archived emails, Microsoft Teams communications and other digital communication and collaboration platforms while also respecting granular permission controls and data segregation requirements. The result ensures that AI analysis only accesses data that users are authorized to view, maintaining the confidentiality and privacy requirements of sensitive information.

The collaboration also sees the debut of the Archive360 AI Discovery Investigator feature, which allows users to initiate comprehensive investigations using natural language prompts.

Archive360’s platform supports both structured and unstructured data in a unified environment and the collaboration uses Azure’s ecosystem to ingest and unify data from a wide range of enterprise systems and communication platforms. According to Archive360, the data foundation enables agentic AI workflows within the Archive360 platform, enabling AI to identify relevant data patterns across diverse sources, which previously would have been extremely complicated or even impossible to detect.

“Microsoft Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models is a powerful tool and Archive360’s integration demonstrates the value it can bring when integrated into other platforms,” said Tony Surma, chief technology officer for enterprise partners at Microsoft. “This collaboration will enable organizations to perform deep, sophisticated investigations quickly, all while governing the data to remain compliant.”

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