Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/09/2012 -- Erado, the nation's leading compliance and archiving firm in electronic communication, today was recognized as a "Cool Vendor" in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Application and Data Protection, 2012 report by Gartner analyst, Andrew Walls.

Erado is recognized as a "Cool Vendor" for its social media archiving application. It captures all social media activity at sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The application is downloaded at the social media site and runs in the user profile, allowing access to all activity and content associated with the profile. The user content is then delivered to Erado's hosted archiving service or to the client's own archiving solution.

"Being named by Gartner as a 'Cool Vendor' is a tremendous honor. It further validates our solution and the importance of social media compliance," said Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado. "We've always been firm believers in helping our customers define, deploy, and defend their corporate policies. This designation by Gartner is 'very cool.' We are excited to be delivering a social media application that helps our customers stay compliant, and redefine relationships with their clients."

About Erado
Erado is the nation's leader in social media compliance, and one of the fastest growing business-tech companies. In addition, Erado provides a suite of SaaS solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications including, email, instant messaging, and social media content such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and more. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For further information, see http://www.erado.com.

Cool Vendor Disclaimer
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process: Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/20/2012 -- Erado, the nation's leading compliance and archiving firm in electronic communication, is proud to announce they are looking to fill positions in Customer and Technical Support immediately.

Earlier this year, Erado announced their tremendous growth, that led to the necessity for additional hires. As the influx of business continues to rise, Erado is seeking to fill 70+ positions in Customer and Technical Support ranging from part-time to full-time.

Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado is excited about the prospect of adding more employees from the area as the company continues to grow.

For more information on career opportunities, see our career page (http://www.erado.com/about/careers/), or contact careers@erado.com.

About Erado
One of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies, Erado provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies.

Contact
Lisa Ung
Public Relations Coordinator
Phone: (425) 336-0480 ext. 205
Email: lung@erado.com

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/17/2012 -- Erado the nation's lead service in SaaS based archiving of electronic communications, formally announces its exclusive agreement to provide social media compliance services to Al Frank Asset Management, Inc., G.A. Repple & Company, Larson Financial Group, LLC, Syverson & Company, LLC, Certified Financial Group, Inc., Capital Investment Companies, Financial Management Network Capital Corporation, TandemGrowth Financial Advisors, LLC, Asset Planning Corporation, Capital Securities Management, Inc., and Financial Telesis Inc.

With the implementation of Erado's social media solution, representatives from these firms will have the ability to engage in social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter—while staying compliant under FINRA guidelines. Erado is pleased to provide the compliance tools that allow tracking and archiving of social media activity.

"We've had a tremendous start to 2012 and are very excited to be working with these broker-dealers," said Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado. "Their decision to use Erado's solution reaffirms how well our social media compliance provides value, and a lower total cost of ownership through extensive integration, with existing advertising review, archiving, and surveillance solutions."

About Erado
Erado, one of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see us at http://www.erado.com.

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Erado, the nation's leading compliance and archiving firm in electronic communication, today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to provide social media compliance services to M Holdings Securities, Inc. (“M Securities”), the exclusive broker-dealer of M Financial Group.

Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) --02/13/2012 -- Erado, the nation's leading compliance and archiving firm in electronic communication, today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to provide social media compliance services to M Holdings Securities, Inc. ("M Securities"), the exclusive broker-dealer of M Financial Group (http://www.mfin.com). M Financial is one of the nation's leading financial services design and distribution companies, serving the insurance, investment, and executive benefit needs of ultra-affluent individuals, corporate executives, successful entrepreneurs, and Fortune 1000 companies through a network of more than 130 Member Firms in 36 states and Canada.

With the implementation of Erado's social media services, M Member Firms have the ability to utilize social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter—within the compliance guidelines set forth by FINRA—to engage with clients and expand their presence on the Internet. Erado is pleased to deliver compliance services for M Securities to track and store the social media activity of Member Firms.

"At the end of the day, Erado's purpose is to help our customer define, deploy, and defend their social media policy. We are just now starting to see the financial services industry begin to use social networking sites," said Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado. "Once you decide to move into social media, you need to get compliance involved, and compliance concerns are real. FINRA's regulatory notice 11-39 requires diligent capture, record keeping, and supervision of social media content, especially posts and updates made from mobile devices. We're very excited to be working with M Securities and the Member Firms of M Financial."

Ken Ehinger, President & CEO of M Securities, added, "In an environment where the potential benefits of social media can be challenged by regulatory requirements, Erado provides the clarity we need. We look forward to connecting our Firms with Erado's compliance services and insight, and exploring opportunities to support Member Firms as they develop and implement social media strategies."

About Erado
One of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies, Erado provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see us at http://www.erado.com.

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/10/2012 -- Erado, the nation's leading compliance and archiving firm in electronic communication, formally announces their record shattering growth in 2011. Amongst many other key milestones, Erado added over 30 new broker-dealer clients and partners, provided social media compliance services to over 40,000 advisors, and will be hiring more employees from the area.

"There are many reasons for us to celebrate this year," said Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado. "We've seen skyrocketing growth in email archiving, Microsoft 365 integration, and especially our go-to solution in social media compliance. We launched our social media solution in April 2011, and since then, it's been the most successful product release in the history of the company. Our astonishing year is fueling many new opportunities, and we look forward to continued growth in 2012, as we expand our operations worldwide and open offices in Europe and Asia."

Some of Erado's key milestones include:

Capturing over 500 million unique social media messages for over 40,000 advisors.
Doubling their workforce with plans to hire 30+ additional employees.
Bringing new services to the financial industry including broker-dealers, RIAs, banks, credit unions, investment banks, hedge funds, and commodities.
Capturing all major social networks including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and blog sites.
Having a workflow package that integrates with many compliance training, advertising review and content management tools.

About Erado
One of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies, Erado provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see http://www.erado.com.

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/23/2011 -- Erado, the nation's leading compliance and archiving firm in electronic communication, formally announces they will add 30 new hires in 2012.

Just in the last 15 months, Erado has seen a tremendous growth that has led to the necessity for additional employees. There will be new positions in Tech Support, Customer Service, Accounting, Administration, and Web Development ranging from part-time to full-time.

Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado is excited about the prospect of adding more employees from the area as the company continues to grow.

To apply for new openings and learn more about Erado see our career page http://www.erado.com/about/careers/. Stay updated with Erado news by following us on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/erado and Twitter http://www.twitter.com/erado and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Erado/110306062418.

About Erado
One of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies, Erado provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies.

Contact
Lisa Ung
Public Relations Coordinator
Phone: (425) 336-0480 ext. 205
Email: lung@erado.com

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/16/2011 -- Erado, the nation's leading compliance and archiving firm in electronic communication, formally announces its strategic social media partnership with Quest CE, the premier provider of Compliance Training to the financial services industry.

This strategic partnership will implement Erado's social media compliance services with Quest CE's FINRA firm element training and tracking services. Erado's social media compliance services allow representatives access to interactive social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Quest CE's compliance training and tracking services allow firms to remain compliant with annual FINRA requirements.

"We are very excited to be partnering with Quest CE and find great value in both our service offerings," said Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado. "We are just now starting to see the financial services industry begin to use social networking sites. Once you decide to move into social media, you need to get compliance involved, and compliance concerns are real. FINRA's regulatory notice 11-39 requires diligent capture, record keeping and supervision of social media content."

"We believe Erado provides an excellent service for firms seeking compliance with industry regulations on social media," said Alan Krenke, CEO of Quest CE. "Our mission at Quest CE has always been to provide the financial services industry with a single source compliance solution and we believe this partnership will allow us to continue to offer the industry a turnkey compliance program. Erado's archiving services provide a valuable component to our social media compliance solution, Codex."

About Erado
Erado, one of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies, provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see us at http://www.erado.com.

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/17/2011 -- Erado the nation's leading compliance and archiving firm in electronic communication, formally announces its exclusive multi-year agreement to provide social media compliance services to Investacorp, Inc., an independent broker-dealer subsidiary of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc.

With the implementation of Erado's social media services, Investacorp will allow its advisors access to interactive social network sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and to communicate with clients and engage in business development programs. Erado is pleased to provide the compliance tools that allow Investacorp to track and archive its advisors' social media activity.

"We're looking forward to working with Investacorp as our newest exclusive social media compliance customer. We are just now starting to see the financial services industry begin to use social networking sites. Once you decide to move into social media, you need to get compliance involved, and compliance concerns are real," said Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado. "FINRA's regulatory notice 11-39 requires diligent capture, record keeping and supervision of social media content. It lays out specific guidelines for practices, and outlines the need to capture social media content from mobile and other devices. At the end of the day, Erado's purpose is to help our customers define, deploy, and defend their social media policies."

Patrick Farrell, President and CEO of Investacorp, stated, "Investacorp is thrilled to be partnering with Erado to deliver industry leading social media services to our national network of independent financial advisors. Erado's technology will make it substantially easier for advisors to fully utilize the power of social media to connect with both existing and potential clients, while staying in compliance with FINRA requirements."

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/21/2011 -- Erado the nation's lead service in SaaS based archiving of electronic communications, announces that Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado will be featured in a web seminar on Social Media For Advisors: Engaging And Growing Your Client Base.

The web seminar will be held Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST sponsored by LPL Financial, member of FINRA/SIPC. Other feature presentations include Marissa Fox-Foley (LPL Financial), Stephanie Sammons (Wired Advisor), and John Sullivan (Investment Advisor Magazine, AdvisorOne). For more details and to register, see http://www.advisorone.com/webseminars/social-media-for-advisors-engaging-and-growing-you.

About Erado
Erado, one of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see www.erado.com.

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/07/2011 -- Erado the nation's lead service in SaaS based archiving of electronic communications, formally announces its exclusive agreement to provide social media compliance services to Liberty Partners Financial Services, LLC, Jeffrey Matthews Financial Group, LLC, Protected Investors of America, Inc., LaSalle Street Securities, LLC, Financial Management Network, Inc., Summit Brokerage Services, Inc., and JW Cole Financial, Inc.

"The financial services industry is recognizing the power of social media, and we are excited to be working with these broker-dealers," said Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado. "Our continued success emphasizes the benefits and value broker dealers are finding, by utilizing our social media compliance solution."

About Erado
Erado, one of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see us at http://www.erado.com.

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/05/2011 -- Erado, the nation's leader in patent pending SaaS based archiving of electronic communications formally announces its' newest product, Microsoft Office 365 Compliance Services.

Erado provides a suite of hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies.

Microsoft Office 365 Archiving & Encryption
Archiving and encrypting your Office 365 hosted exchange has never been easier. It's designed to make sure your organization stays compliant. Our service captures and archives all hosted exchange mail traffic, and automatically encrypts sensitive email. Archiving utilizes the built in envelope journaling to deliver advanced compliance and e-discovery capabilities, and SecureMail policy based encryption assures information sent over email stays private by utilizing Office 365's easy to configure smart hosting.

About Erado
Erado, one of the nation's fastest growing business-tech companies provides a suite of patent pending hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see us at http://www.erado.com./

Contact:
Lisa Ung
Phone: (425) 336-0480 ext. 205
Email: lung@erado.com

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NPH will Allow Social Media Activity for more than 3,500 Representatives

Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/28/2011 -- National Planning Holdings, Inc. (NPH), one of the nation's largest independent broker-dealer networks1, has engaged Erado to provide social media compliance services. NPH is expected to roll-out social media capabilities to more than 3,500 affiliated representatives by the fall of 2011.

Upon implementation of Erado's technology suite, NPH will allow its representatives to leverage the interactive social networks of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to communicate with clients and establish innovative
business development programs. Erado's technology will assist NPH in monitoring, tracking and archiving its representatives' social media activity for compliance purposes.

The agreement with Erado covers each of the four broker-dealers in the NPH network: INVEST Financial Corporation, Investment Centers of America, Inc., National Planning Corporation, and SII Investments, Inc.

"Clearly, social media has reached critical mass and is becoming an increasingly important communication tool for financial advisers," said Jim Livingston, president and chief executive officer of National Planning Holdings. "However, managing the compliance implications of social media activity has been a challenge, and our relationship with Erado will help us address these issues head-on. NPH has a history of technology innovation and remains committed to helping our representatives utilize the latest resources available to build their
businesses."

"We value our strategic relationship with NPH, and are pleased to be working with the firm," said Craig Brauff, Erado's chief executive officer. "The financial services industry is increasingly recognizing the power of social media, and the effect it can have on marketing and communications efforts. With that said, compliance regulations continue to evolve and companies in the sector must ensure that they are properly monitoring and archiving their social media activity. That's where Erado can help, with its patent-pending, cost-effective and innovative solution."available to build their businesses."

For more information about Erado, please visit www.erado.com.

For more information about the broker-dealers in the National Planning Holdings network, please visit:

About National Planning Holdings, Inc.
National Planning Holdings, Inc. (NPH) is a broker-dealer holding company and an affiliate of Lansing, Mich.-based Jackson National Life Insurance Company. NPH serves as the holding company for the independent broker-dealers INVEST Financial Corporation, Investment Centers of America, National
Planning Corporation, and SII Investments, Inc. Collectively, the NPH broker-dealer network has 3,563 registered representatives. NPH and Jackson are wholly owned by Prudential pIc (NYSE: PUK), a company incorporated and with its principal place of business in the United Kingdom. Prudential pIc is not
affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America.

About Erado
Erado, one of the nation's fastest-growing business-tech companies provides a suite of hosted solutions for capture, review and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations
manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see us at www.erado.com.

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) --05/24/2011 -- Erado the nation's leader in archiving of electronic communications, is pleased to announce today an agreement to provide social media compliance services to LinkedIn, the world's largest professional social network beginning in May 2011. LinkedIn is working closely with the financial services industry and compliance companies like Erado, to allow regulated employee to leverage the power of social media for business.

Erado, headquartered in Renton, WA, is a cloud based service provider offering a suite of archiving, surveillance, hosting and security services tailored for the financial services industry. Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado says,"We're excited about working with LinkedIn, and integrating our services with their professional network. Our solutions will help those who use LinkedIn for business to meet and exceed industry regulations.

What's great about our system is it will automatically capture and send to LinkedIn activity for post-review and retention by internal IT and compliance teams. Our purpose is to help businesses define, deploy, and defend social media policy."

About Erado
Erado provides a suite of hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see us at http://www.erado.com.
 
Contact:
Lisa Ung
Phone: (425) 336-0480 ext. 205
Email: lung@erado.com

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Renton, WA -- (SBWIRE) --05/20/2011 -- Erado, the nation's leader in archiving of electronic communications, is excited to announce today a multi-year agreement to provide social media compliance services to linkedFA, the leading social network for financial and insurance professionals to collaborate, grow business, and increase profits starting May 2011.

Erado, headquartered in Renton, WA , is a cloud based service provider offering a suite of archiving, surveillance, hosting and security services tailored for the financial services industry. Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado says, "We're delighted to be working with linkedFA and to be integrating our solutions to create enhanced compliance tools to meet and exceed industry regulations. It's a challenge to keep up with the growing community of networking platforms, and especially with the nation's largest professional social network." Recent data from the American Century Investments survey in 2011 say that 86% of advisors own business or personal social media accounts. "Our solutions define, deploy, and defend social media policy," says Brauff.

linkedFA CEO Jason Bishara said, "We are delighted to announce this partnership and excited to work with Erado. This is the first relationship of its kind which fully integrates a financial electronic correspondence solution with a destination website. This partnership comes at a prime time in the evolution of social media for the financial community. While the enterprise is explicit in its demands to monitor financial advisor's (FAs) social media activity whether they are office based, on mobile devices or off premises; FAs are increasingly vocal in their requirements to leverage social media openly and freely without firm restrictions. Our relationship with Erado enables us to address the concerns of the enterprise and the FAs with an easily digestible pricing structure for both parties."

About Erado
Erado provides a suite of hosted solutions for capture, review, and archiving of electronic communications, including email, instant messaging, and social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Founded in 1994, Erado helps organizations manage and enforce cost-effective compliance and records retention policies. For more information, see us at http://www.erado.com.

About linkedFA
Founded 2008 – linkedFA is designed as a niche-focused website for the financial industry to enable the use of social media by registered financial professionals. To date, linkedFA is the nation's leading social media website to address the concerns of industry regulations while allowing FAs to communicate with their clients, prospective clients, and peers. See us at http://www.linkedFA.com.

Contact:
Lisa Ung
Phone: (425) 336-0480 ext. 205
Email: lung@erado.com

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