The combined cost of social media & email archiving for the single user is about 2 to 4 Starbucks lattes a week – based on publicly available prices (as of Oct 1 2013) in table below.  For compliance or other business reasons, professionals in financial services and other sectors are archiving email and social media business records.  As new firms and technologies emerge to enable retention of social media interactions, some email archiving firms have stepped up to enable feeding of social media data into email archives.  The pricing table below presents both standalone and combo solutions for email and social media archiving.

 Social media & email archiving pricing

Sources:
(1) arkovi.com/feature-comparison-chart
(2) cappusocial.com/pricing
(3) orders.erado.com
(4) cloudpreservation.nextpoint.com/pricing
(5) utopiasystems.com/services/exchange_emailcompliance.asp;  saashost.net/email-hosting/global-relay-hosted-email-archiving-pricing
(6) google.com/intx/en_sg/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
(7) sonian.com/tco;  aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B007I8W8MK
(8) office.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/microsoft-exchange-online-archiving-archiving-email-FX103763589.aspx

– by InvestmentPal