Microsoft Companion
Smart Stack 3.0
Zantaz delivers AI-Ready Trusted Data @ Speed and Scale, closing the critical gaps Microsoft users encounter every day.
Smart Stack 3.0
At the center of Zantaz is the Microsoft Companion Smart Stack 3.0, an AI-infused data architecture purpose-built for the AI era. It addresses the most persistent challenges Microsoft customers face: unmanaged unstructured data, fragmented and legacy archives, regulatory and evidentiary exposure, and the pressure to deploy Copilot without confidence that their data is AI-ready.
The Microsoft Companion for the AI Era
Zantaz Data Resources exists to make Microsoft AI work in the real world. As organizations rush to deploy Copilot and AI agents, one reality has become unavoidable: AI success depends entirely on the quality, governance, and readiness of the data behind it. While Microsoft provides world-class AI models, governance frameworks, and data platforms, most enterprise data remains unstructured, fragmented, and unprepared for AI utilization. That gap, not the models themselves, is what stalls AI adoption.
Smart Stack 3.0 is not just an architecture. It is the foundation that makes Microsoft AI usable, defensible, and economically productive in the enterprise. By refining data upstream, before it reaches Copilot, AI agents, analytics platforms, or governance layers, Zantaz enables Microsoft AI to operate with accuracy, safety, and scale in production environments.
Three Core Solutions + Trusted Data Tools
Smart Stack 3.0 is built on three core solutions that close the critical structural gaps in Microsoft's enterprise ecosystem, plus a suite of specialized Trusted Data Tools that extend the stack for legal, compliance, and data operations.
- Trusted Data Refinery: Transforms chaotic Dark Data into curated, policy-aligned AI-Ready Trusted Data through Data Reader, Data Identifier, and Trusted Data Collections, across SharePoint, Windows, and Linux file systems.
- Trusted Data Portal: The central intelligence brain and control plane. Elasticsearch organizes meaning, Nextcloud enables action, and MCP makes AI use safe, mirroring only high-signal, policy-approved data into Microsoft OneLake.
- Trusted Data Archive: Industry-leading journal archiving (EAS, HPCA, Z Cloud, Arcivium for Azure) serving as the data intelligence, security, and retention-policy governance layer for Microsoft Exchange and 365, aligned to SEC 17a-4, FINRA, HIPAA, and MiFID II.
Beyond the three core solutions, Trusted Data Tools extends the stack with specialized capabilities: AI-Ready Data Feeder for Trusted Data Mirroring to OneLake, the Data Migration Suite for archive consolidation, the ROI Calculator for value quantification, Supervisor for communications compliance monitoring, and Data Connect for proprietary archive format integration.
A Decade of Evolution
Since 2013, the Smart Stack has served as a core Microsoft solution suite, purpose-built to solve the most challenging data identification, availability, and compliance challenges within the Microsoft ecosystem. What began as market-leading journal archiving for Microsoft Exchange has steadily evolved into a comprehensive Microsoft Companion architecture. Each generation expanded Zantaz's role, from protecting and preserving data, to organizing it intelligently, to preparing it for advanced analytics and enterprise AI. Smart Stack 3.0 represents the most significant evolution to date: combining Trusted Data Archive with Trusted Data Refinery, Trusted Data Portal, and AI Smart Legal to close the critical gaps that limit AI adoption, Copilot effectiveness, and data utilization at scale.
An AI Accelerator for Microsoft
Zantaz is an AI accelerator for Microsoft, not a competing platform. Smart Stack 3.0 complements Purview, OneLake, and Copilot by reducing data chaos, improving governance outcomes, lowering AI risk, and accelerating time-to-value. We do not replace Microsoft services, we prepare the AI-Ready data that those services depend on. For Microsoft sellers, partners, and customers, Zantaz unlocks a clear expansion opportunity: faster Copilot readiness, stronger governance and compliance outcomes, reduced AI hallucination and exposure risk, and higher customer confidence and broader AI adoption.
Key Benefits
- Speed at Scale: Scan 8 million files per hour, one billion files per week, with no disruption to production systems
- Cost Certainty: $1M all-inclusive annual license with unlimited users, unlimited usage, and no activation fees
- ROT Elimination: Identify and eliminate up to 60% of Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial data before it reaches AI
- AI Acceleration: Move from Copilot pilots to productivity in weeks, not years, with defensible, governed data
Conclusion
Smart Stack 3.0 helps enterprise organizations move from AI ambition to AI execution, turning unstructured data into AI-Ready Trusted Data @ Speed and Scale.
Core Solutions. Three Pillars of AI Readiness.
Curing Dark Data
Trusted Data Refinery
Transforms chaotic, unclassified Dark Data into curated, policy-aligned AI-Ready Trusted Data across SharePoint, Windows, and Linux file systems through Data Reader, Data Identifier, and Trusted Data Collections.
The Intelligence Control Plane
Trusted Data Portal
The central intelligence brain of Smart Stack 3.0. Elasticsearch organizes meaning, Nextcloud enables action, and MCP makes AI use safe. Organizes enriched metadata into Trusted Data Collections and mirrors only high-signal data to OneLake.
Compliant Journal Archiving
Trusted Data Archive
Industry-leading journal archiving (EAS, HPCA, Z Cloud, Arcivium for Azure) making Microsoft Exchange and 365 data safe, scalable, searchable, AI-ready, and compliant with SEC 17a-4, FINRA, HIPAA, and MiFID II.
Trusted Data Tools. Specialized solutions for every need.
AI-Ready Data Feeder
Delivers AI-Ready Data through Trusted Data Mirroring, mirroring only enriched, policy-aligned, high-signal data into Microsoft OneLake or Fabric.
Data Migration Suite
Supports necessary data movements such as consolidating legacy archives or migrating on-premises servers to Azure, without unnecessary forklift migrations.
ROI Calculator
Quantifies savings from storage reduction, compute cost optimization, and improved legal spend to assess real-world AI readiness value.
Supervisor
Communications monitoring for regulatory compliance and discovery. Provides supervision capabilities allowing organizations to monitor data for regulatory compliance.
Data Connect
Purpose-built connectors that translate proprietary archive formats, preserve metadata and evidentiary integrity, and enable high-velocity point-to-point transfer.
The Enduring Legacy of Smart Stack
Since 2013, evolving from market-leading journal archives to an extraordinary lineup of Microsoft ecosystem solutions.
Foundation
Market-leading enterprise-scale journal archiving for Microsoft Exchange, establishing Zantaz as the trusted leader in compliant data preservation.
Cloud Era
Extended into the cloud era with supervision, discovery, and cloud-scale intelligence for distributed Microsoft environments and rising regulatory complexity.
AI Era
The most significant evolution to date: purpose-built for the AI era, transforming massive Microsoft-generated data into AI-ready, policy-approved assets at speed and scale.
Closing Four Critical Gaps
Unstructured Data Chaos → Trusted Data Refinery
Data Reader, Data Identifier, and Trusted Data Collections transform Dark Data into AI-Ready Trusted Data at 8 million files per hour
AI Activation Gap → Trusted Data Portal
Elasticsearch organizes meaning, Nextcloud enables action, MCP makes AI use safe, mirroring only curated data to OneLake
Legal Readiness Gap → AI Smart Legal
Universal drop zone with immutable chain of custody, upstream refinement before outside counsel, and AI-powered discovery
Enterprise Memory Gap → Trusted Data Archive
Compliant journal archiving (EAS, HPCA, Z Cloud, Arcivium for Azure) aligned to SEC 17a-4, FINRA, HIPAA, and MiFID II
Files scanned per hour
ROT data eliminated
All-inclusive license
"Enterprises are stalled on AI, not because Microsoft is incomplete, but because their data is unready, unorganized, and unsafe for AI utilization and enterprise agents. Trusted Data Refinery eliminates Dark Data, the single greatest blocker to enterprise AI adoption, by refining it in place and mirroring only organized, high-value, AI-Ready data into OneLake at speed and scale. In weeks, not years, Copilot, Fabric, and enterprise AI move from pilots to productivity."
Ready to Transform Your Data?
Zantaz's Microsoft Companion Smart Stack 3.0 is delivered under an all-inclusive $1 million annual enterprise license. No additional user fees, usage penalties, or activation licenses.