Case study

Storetec story

Storetec is one company that needs little convincing of the need to retain business documents for long periods. That’s what Storetec does – scans and stores paper documents for businesses.

helped reduce the load on our Exchange Server “When we first saw MessageStream, it was a good fit for Storetec because we understand the importance of storing documents, both paper and electronic. The spam and virus filtering also helped reduce the load on our Exchange Server,” explained Sales Director David Wilkinson.

MessageStream is, amongst other things, a digital version of what Storetec does – and the company was also quick to see the advantages of filtering and archiving its own email. Indeed Storetec is preparing to become a MessageStream Partner to complement its own services.

“We know of businesses that actually print off emails to make sure they get archived,” added David. “It makes no sense at all, and is a complete waste of resources.”

David Wilkinson is bullish about the prospects for his company’s service: “Companies in the past have neglected their paper archive because it’s always been seen as too much of a problem and involved too high a cost to contemplate dealing with. Our services allow these issues to be dealt with in an efficient and cost-effective way.

“We see the same attitude with email archiving – it’s all too easy to put it to the back of your mind, but businesses really can’t afford to take these kinds of risks.”

“We previously looked at software email archiving products, but the price was prohibitive, coupled with the overhead of maintaining the software. MessageStream seems to just gets on with the job of archiving our email, and we very rarely get involved in what it’s doing. Occasionally, we’ve retrieved a document that’s been lost – but that’s what it’s there for.”

Storetec is a fast expanding business operating throughout the UK. Storetec works to the BSI’s BIP0008 Code of Practice for Legal Admissibility & Evidential Weight of Information Stored Electronically.