Hanzo’s new CEO Sarai Schubert clearly articulated Hanzo’s shift from compliance archiving to unified navigation and access of diverse collaborative enterprise sources. It could be that I am just out of date with their brand shift, but the briefing put them back on my RFP list for Enterprise clients seeking governance solutions for Slack, Teams, Google Workplace, Atlassian, Asana, Websites and other dynamic SaaS collaboration platforms. Hanzo addresses modern source identification challenges with dynamic mapping of user relationships across live sources. Historical mapping of Teams and other channels is always tough with sources that have no memory of inactive users, group membership changes and activity beyond short term system logs. Slack’s connect, canvas and lists also continue to be challenge for Enterprises.
VP of Product Dave Ruel dove deep into how Hanzo leverages smart API’s, Dynamic Capture Technology and predictably priced secured LLM models to tackle investigations, ECA, compliance monitoring and other real world governance use cases. Their new Spotlight AI solution should speak to corporations feeling AI hesitancy over the inherent uncertainty of ‘per Token’ charges and the data security challenges with API calls to global public LLMs. The market favors predictable, practical solutions that address recognized pain points over unspecified ‘fast, better, cheaper’ easy button pitches.
Hanzo started as a SaaS Information Governance archive for regulated enterprise customers. Their compliance story has expanded to provide customers with in-place investigations, ECA, legal holds and secure AI-driven relevance and classification over complicated data sources outside of their M365 tenants. We all need the tools to reach beyond our traditional email and files as our custodians innovate with new data sources and types.
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