The combined company will serve more than 6,500 financial services firms, including the top 15 global banks and regional, mid-size banks and broker-dealers ? as well as government agencies and organizations in other regulated industries. Smarsh provides comprehensive archiving solutions for compliance, e-discovery and risk management, creating the clear, global market leader in compliance and enterprise information archiving. They also have products that cover other products besides Skype for Business, Actiance customers include the top 10 U.S., top 5 Canadian, top 8 European, and top 3 Asian banksĪctiance has also started supporting capture and compliance archiving for Microsoft Teams. I’ve not come across Smarsh before, but Actiance is a common compliance platform for Skype for business, particularly in Finance. Microsoft has completed its 8.5 billion acquisition of Skype Global, giving the software company a major foothold in the growing market for Internet telephony services.

Now K1, an investment firm has bought Actiance and are combining them with Smarsh.

Cisco recently bought Broadsoft, Sonus merged with Genband and Verint bought Verba. Mergers and acquisitions really are in the air in the UC and Collab space. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation which produces computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washington, United States.

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