IG Central vs ZL Unified Archive

IG Central is a self-hosted, single-tenant governance engine for classifying, governing, and searching enterprise content where it already resides. It runs inside the customer’s environment and does not require data migration. Its drill-down LLM classification follows a records taxonomy and extracts typed metadata, sensitivity, and personally identifiable information. The platform enforces retention schedules, supports disposition workflows and policy application, and provides enterprise-wide search, an embedded document viewer, and governance review workflows. Users can inspect classifications, prompts, metadata, and outcomes, then correct classifications; those corrections feed MCP tools for ongoing model refinement. A transactional outbox tracks state changes and is described as crash-safe and fully auditable. Content can arrive through uploads or connected cloud services. Google Drive is available today, while additional connectors are planned. The maker says processing stays inside the customer’s network without public-AI dependency. Pricing is on request.

ZL Unified Archive consolidates archived and in-place unstructured content in a repository for archiving and governance. It supports email, files, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, social media, instant messages, legacy databases and archives, and formats including CSV, XML, and JSON. Search combines Boolean logic, wildcards, fuzzy logic, and proximity rules. For Teams, the system captures files, messages, reactions, and surrounding content for policy application, review, and selective archiving. Records management offers more than 20,000 manual and automated classifications, configurable lifecycle policies, an audit log of document actions, and one-click legal holds. eDiscovery capabilities include early case assessment, search and culling, hierarchical tagging, email threading, and customizable workflows within the archive. Deployment options are on-premises, cloud, and hybrid. ZL Technologies positions the platform for large enterprises, including financial institutions and government organizations, and lists requirements such as SEC, FINRA, MiFID II, GDPR, CCPA, and DoD 5015.02. It runs on web, API, and self-hosted deployments. Pricing is on request.