Case Study: National Financial Partners achieves rapid e-discovery and 18–20% lower email costs with Proofpoint Email Archiving

National Financial Partners - Customer Case Study

National Financial Partners (NFP), a fast-growing broker with more than 2,900 employees and numerous subsidiaries, faced mounting regulatory and e-discovery demands that their in-house email archive could not meet. Rapid email growth (about 3 GB/day), large attachments, corrupted indexes and a 4 TB archive produced slow searches (6–8 hours), frequent downtime for re-indexing, rising backup tape costs (~$35,000/yr) and unsustainable staff effort.

NFP moved to Proofpoint Email Archiving, a scalable SaaS grid with attachment stubbing and AD integration, giving users real-time Outlook/browser access while shrinking Exchange stores. The change cut projected email-related costs by 18–20%, eliminated over $25,000 in annual tape costs, reduced staff hours from ~60 to under 10 per week, reclaimed ~80% of mailbox space via stubbing, and slashed e-discovery search times from hours to seconds–minutes, improving compliance and user experience.

National Financial Partners

Stuart Tainsky

SVP of Technology