I am often asked how it all got started.  The usual answer has been June 6, 1978, when I rented the original 450 sq’ Stereo Advantage space in the Village of Williamsville, NY.  It is a convenient response, but it doesn’t do justice to how so many opportunities actually took root well after that moment in time.

When asked about the start of the Capax experience, the easy answer has always been 1993, when Joe Kreuz and I launched Advantage Professionals.  From there the narrative quickly moves on to Tom Thomson and the launch of Advantage Systems Professionals [now c1secure].  That is the inflection point.  That is when we entered the IT market.  From there the story builds on AP Metro – and it is a great story.  

But the genesis of Capax Global truly starts from that auspicious moment when Jerry Hawk and John Baiocco decided that the AP Metro staffing model was dated and that there was a new IT services business to be built [and that business turned out to be Capax Global].

Over the past dozen years, I can say without a doubt that nothing has been more successful in the annals of the Advantage Co than Capax Global and its progeny.  Although the Capax Global plot was worthy of a masterful mystery, it never failed to deliver success. 

For the Advantage Co, the Capax partnership, and me – nothing has been more rewarding.  And although Capax Global has been sold to [and internationally launched by] Hitachi, I am confident that there will be many more chapters to write with Jerry and Jessica down the road.

The Capax experience, however, lives on in our UGA Capital Management.  UGA is now made up of 5 great independently owned and operated companies – each with their own future to build:

1. 1. Capax Discovery
      This is the license holder of our key resources [e.g. EAS*, IDOL, HPCA, CAMM, Nearpoint, Supervisor, etc].
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   2. PremCloud
      This is the world-class deliverer of all we offer.  PremCloud provides the advanced professional services, support & maintenance, managed services, hosted services, and developmental services that our customers require.  It is the foundation on which all of UGA is built.
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   3. Sceven
      This is our software development company.  Right now it is servicing only our UGA portfolio of independently owned and operated companies, but it will soon be servicing an international array of customers.  There is almost nothing our worldwide team of programmers and developers can’t build [specializing in turning software into SaaS].
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   4. Zovy Cloud
      This is our cloud hosting resource specifically for our Zovy Cloud Archive and ZHub.
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   5. Data Detect
      This is our newest independent company which has developed Data Detect 1.0, GDPR Services, and Data Supervisor.  It is our most promising start-up … and the native software is entirely ours [developed by Sceven].
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      Data Detect 1.0 is the premier solution for capturing, cleaning, managing, and providing access to all of our customer’s dark data [providing a consistent, defensible manner in which to apply critical compliance, purge, or retain decisions].
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      Data Detect 1.0 enables organizations to move and analyze data from anywhere to anywhere, with Data Detect 1.0 acting as the ‘data police’ in between.  Whether our customers are simply managing their corporate data responsibly, going to the cloud, complying with GDPR data privacy regulations, or merging with another company, Data Detect 1.0 provides the capability to locate, identify, categorize, and properly manage the dark data scattered throughout their organization.

The story keeps getting better, but as I told a group of the young guns at UGA yesterday, the story begins with Jerry and John.  We owe our ongoing success to their vision and their ability to bring it to life.

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  Aside from the ability to capture a vast range of content types, EAS separates itself as the world’s premiere archiving solution in that it now has the ability to be deployed in virtually any capacity.  Originally established as the leader in on-premise archiving, EAS 10.0 can now operate in a hosted or hybrid state.  Additionally, EAS 10.0 can be hosted in a variety of locations, including an organization’s private data center, a third-party data center, our Zovy Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.  With its hybrid capabilities, multinationals can deploy EAS on-premise for their Japanese division, in a private data center for their German division, in the Zovy Cloud for their U.S. division, in a third-party data center for their South African division, in Microsoft Azure for their Canadian division, and so on.  Regardless of the chosen deployment structure, organizations leveraging EAS have the ability to access and take action on the entirety of their global archive, all through our single total access optic.
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  The future of EAS is exciting, as we will continue to develop and expand upon core capabilities while innovating to meet the changing demands of tomorrow.  We are committed to building EAS in conjunction with Microsoft services to optimize organizations’ use of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure, providing greater accessibility to the archive for both end-users and administrators, offering our customers new deployment capabilities through the leveraging of additional cloud services, and developing new connectors to capture an increasing number of enterprise content types.  Schedule a demo today to learn how EAS can unify your information management practices and help you achieve your long-term organizational goals.