In fact many companies are retaining (and maintaining) data unnecessarily, with studies suggesting that up to 69% of all retained data has little, to no, business value whatsoever! 3. That’s why an effective (and appropriate) data deletion and data management strategy can help to avoid significant downstream e-discovery costs. For example, Samsung’s e-discovery bill following its patent battles with Apple have been reported to have run into tens of millions of dollars.Į-discovery costs are largely based on data volume simply reviewing one gigabyte of data is estimated to today cost in excess of $18,000 according to a study by Rand Corporation. The cost of e-discovery can quickly mount up. Wire’s timed messages can even be applied to pictures, videos and shared files. Being able to share brief updates and notices with colleagues, knowing they’ll automatically delete themselves, makes it easier to keep chat histories tidy, and saves space on users’ devices. Probably not, and that’s what our clients have told us too. Sure, being able to go back through your history to pull last quarter’s sales numbers is going to be useful for months to come but what about that group reminder about Bob’s leaving drinks? Do you really need that sitting around, clogging up your conversation threads for eternity? Here’s a run-down of the use cases, and benefits Wire’s encrypted, ephemeral messaging feature offers enterprises.

Since then, we’ve discovered that the value our enterprise customers see in the technology extends far beyond data security. Wire has offered ephemeral messages (or timed messages as we like to call them) as a feature in its secure end-to-end encrypted service since 2016. But what about its place in the enterprise?

Ephemeral messaging (the ability to set self-destructing messages that automatically disappear from recipients’ conversation histories), is a common feature across many consumer messaging apps.