New York-based enterprise archiving company Archive360 has launched a collaboration with Microsoft to deliver advanced AI-powered eDiscovery and compliance solutions for large organizations. This collaboration combines Archive360’s governed data cloud with Microsoft’s AI capabilities through Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models to enable large and complex enterprises to conduct sophisticated investigations while maintaining strict data governance and regulatory compliance.
Archive360 began in 2011 as a small startup, and has since grown to over 200. They were recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant, which they say is a testament to the product, the market need, and the execution behind it. They were just named to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.
Archive360 is a Microsoft Top Tier Partner and global Co-Sell Prioritized ISV, activating customers that would otherwise resist Azure adoption due to data security and compliance concerns. As a leader in Azure-based Data Governance, Archive360 offers scalable and secure Azure and AI-ready solutions, seamlessly aligning with Microsoft’s commitment to innovation. It is a modern cloud archiving platform that seamlessly integrates with a data ecosystem – providing streamlining, onboarding, classification, retention, and deletion with powerful automation and full audit trails. Archive360 customers currently manage more than 150 Petabytes of data in Azure.
The collaboration with Microsoft addresses a critical need in large organizations. Compliance officers, HR 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. In many organizations, the data that lends itself to this insight has been historically trapped in source applications and other complex isolated data silos, which makes it difficult to find and govern.
Through this integration, AI agents built using Azure technologies will use curated data from archived emails, Microsoft Teams communications, and other digital communication and collaboration platforms, all while respecting granular permission controls and data segregation requirements. This ensures that AI analysis only accesses data that users are authorized to view, maintaining the confidentiality and privacy requirements of sensitive information.
“This collaboration represents a breakthrough in how organizations can use agentic AI for compliance and investigation workflows,” said Dan Manners, Vice President of Product Strategy, Archive360. “By combining our governed data platform with Microsoft’s AI capabilities, we can enable organizations to conduct thorough investigations while maintaining the strict data controls and permissions that regulated industries require. And this is just the beginning of demonstrating the potential of this future collaboration. We plan to develop even deeper capabilities in the near future.”
The centerpiece of this collaboration is the Archive360 AI Discovery Investigator feature, which enables end-users to initiate comprehensive investigations using natural language prompts. For example, an analyst who receives an alert about potential misconduct can ask questions using simple prompts to learn more about the potential incident. The new capability automatically scans archived digital communications – including emails, mobile messages, and chat messages — identifies potential misconduct, creates e-discovery cases, and applies legal holds to the relevant data within the platform.
Unlike traditional approaches that struggle with mixed data types, Archive360’s platform supports both structured and unstructured data in a unified environment. The collaboration uses Azure’s ecosystem to ingest and unify data from a wide range of enterprise systems and communication platforms. This 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, CTO Enterprise Partners at Microsoft. “This collaboration will enable organizations to perform deep, sophisticated investigations quickly, all while governing the data to remain compliant.”
As a channel-first business, partners are a key pillar in Archive360’s go-to-market strategy, and the company says that they know what it takes to build a sustainable channel partnership. Their team ensures partners accelerate their business growth through consistent and predictable upsell, cross-sell, professional services and consultancy revenue streams. Partners are their extended sales force, and your success is their success. Archive360 partners with organizations in both the public and private sectors including systems integrators, advisory organizations, Microsoft resellers, value added resellers and technology alliance vendors. Our joint goal is to reduce the costs and risks associated with legacy archive migration, application retirement and data migration, data retirement, retention and disposition, file system archiving and unified communications compliance.
Archive360 expects to release the integration by the end of 2025.