Case Study: Raiffeisen Informatik Center Steiermark achieves automated SharePoint compliance and secure, audit-ready archiving with AvePoint DocAve Vault

Raiffeisen Schweiz Genossenschaft Crafts Proactive SharePoint® Compliance Policies With DocAve®

Raiffeisen Schweiz Genossenschaft, part of Switzerland’s leading retail bank, deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to support collaboration across its central organization but faced strict regulatory and audit requirements it couldn’t meet with native SharePoint tools. Administrators needed a deployment-wide way to create immutable copies of records (including metadata, usage and audit trails), apply flexible retention policies, and avoid time-consuming, error-prone manual archiving practices.

The bank implemented AvePoint’s DocAve Vault for SharePoint to automate compliance archiving and preserve metadata and audit information in an immutable form, with rich search and export capabilities for legal discovery. The solution streamlined compliance across eight site collections and ~1,200 sites, eliminated manual processes, boosted end-user confidence and platform adoption (with growth and branch rollouts planned), and was delivered smoothly, prompting consideration of additional DocAve modules.

Raiffeisen Informatik Center Steiermark

Philip Spakouskas

System Engineer, Raiffeisen Schweiz Genossenschaft