Actiance, a communications, collaboration and social networking platform, recently announced a partnership with Symantec to aid customers in managing, capturing, and archiving Instant Messaging, social networking, collaboration and Unified Communication traffic.

As a result of the agreement, Actiance has integrated its Actiance Governance Platform with Symantec Enterprise Vault, and Symantec will resell Actiance's core products: Vantage and Socialite. The relationship provides enterprise organizations an integrated compliance, e-Discovery, and archiving solution that allows for real-time management, active compliance, and contextual capture of messages and data across all forms of real-time communication channels.