Piler vs Jatheon
Flexible deployment vs single-vendor lock-in
Two Approaches to Email Archiving
Jatheon offers compliance-focused archiving with proprietary appliances. Piler Enterprise provides similar compliance capabilities with modern, flexible architecture and transparent pricing.
Jatheon
- ❌Proprietary appliance architecture
- ❌"Contact sales" pricing model
- ❌Limited deployment flexibility
- ❌Proprietary format, harder to migrate away
- ❌No semantic/AI search
- ⚠️Teams/Slack archiving via add-on
Piler Enterprise
- ✅Modern container-based architecture
- ✅Transparent per-mailbox pricing
- ✅Deploy anywhere: on-prem, cloud, hybrid
- ✅Standard EML export, easy to migrate
- ✅Built-in AI semantic search
- ✅Teams + Slack archiving included
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Jatheon | Piler Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment Options | Appliance / Cloud | Docker / VM / Cloud / On-prem |
| Pricing Transparency | Contact sales only | Published pricing |
| Full-Text Search | Yes | Yes (sub-200ms) |
| AI/Semantic Search | No | Yes (on-premise ML) |
| Sensitive Data Detection | Limited | Built-in Smart Insights |
| eDiscovery | Yes | Yes |
| Legal Hold | Yes | Yes |
| Retention Policies | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Teams | Add-on | Included |
| Slack Archiving | Add-on | Included |
| Multi-Tenant (MSPs) | Yes | Yes (built-in) |
| ARM64 Support | No | Yes |
| Data Sovereignty | On-prem option | Full control, any location |
Why Choose Piler Over Jatheon
💰 Transparent Pricing
Jatheon uses opaque "contact sales" pricing that varies by customer. You never know if you're getting a good deal.
Piler publishes straightforward per-mailbox pricing. No negotiations, no surprises, no pressure from sales teams.
🔧 Deployment Freedom
Jatheon locks you into their appliance model or cloud infrastructure. Moving data later is difficult and expensive.
Piler runs anywhere: your data center, AWS, Azure, GCP, or any Docker-capable host. Your archive, your infrastructure.
🤖 AI-Powered Features
Jatheon offers traditional keyword search. Finding emails by concept requires knowing exact terms.
Piler includes semantic search (find emails by meaning) and Smart Insights (detect sensitive data like SSN, credit cards) - all running on-premise.
📱 Modern Messaging Included
Jatheon charges extra for Microsoft Teams and Slack archiving as add-on modules.
Piler includes Teams and Slack archiving in the standard license. One price for all your messaging channels.
Same Compliance, Better Value
Both solutions help you meet compliance requirements. The difference is how much you pay and how much control you have.
HIPAA
Healthcare compliance with encryption, audit trails, retention policies
SEC/FINRA
Financial services compliance with immutable storage, legal hold
GDPR
EU data protection with on-premise deployment, data sovereignty
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