“The introduction of EU data hosting is a welcome feature for our EU customers who can now be confident that their data is protected by storing it locally” said Alan Byrne, Director and co-founder of Cogmotive.
Cogmotive provides reporting solutions for organisations using Microsoft Office 365 services like Exchange Online, Skype for Business and SharePoint Online so that they can understand how their staff are communicating and collaborating. To do this Cogmotive collects millions of data points relating to service usage, security and settings in their Office 365 environment – and particularly data about their users.
“Many of our large enterprise customers in the EU have strict data protection and regulatory requirements around data security and storage. The recent Court of Justice decision on the Safe Harbor framework has triggered a necessary rethink of the arrangements in place and whether they are effective in protecting people’s privacy.”
“It is more important than ever that EU customers can be confident that their privacy and data security is being safeguarded by service providers.”
“Privacy and data security are major priorities at Cogmotive because our business is data, and our customers trust us to protect their confidential information. Our EU customers can now be certain that their reporting data remains in the EU”, Mr Byrne said.
Cogmotive customers have two options: customers can nominate to have their reporting data stored in EU domiciled data centres or they can continue to have their data stored in US facilities, but either way their data is protected.
Cogmotive’s flagship Office 365 Reports product was the first of its kind and continues to innovate to include new features to help customers using Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite. Cogmotive also provides SharePoint Online Reports that helps customers to safeguard the security of their confidential documents and manage storage costs in the cloud. Cogmotive products are currently used by thousands of customers across the globe to manage more than 2 million Office 365 seats.
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