WPDM

What WPDM does

WPDM Ltd is a UK-based specialist reseller and professional services provider for enterprise email and file archiving solutions. Operating from a single office in Towcester, Northamptonshire, the company serves customers across the UK, Ireland, Mainland Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, with global engagements handled on request. Its customer base spans government bodies, legal firms, healthcare and research organisations, non-profits, and cloud service providers that require tamper-proof email archives, regulatory compliance (GDPR, FOI, Basel II), DSAR response, eDiscovery, and unstructured file data management.

The company's product portfolio is built on three certified vendor partnerships. With Waterford Technologies it resells and implements MailMeter (real-time email capture with compression, deduplication, digital stamping, and encryption for on-premise or cloud compliance archiving) and SISCIN (Azure-hosted file analysis and archiving with a single dashboard, policy creation, what-if analysis, TripleLock immutable WORM storage, bit-level encryption, and tiered cloud/local storage). With Dell EMC it delivers SourceOne (Email Management, File Archiving, eDiscovery) along with EmailXtender and Discovery Manager. With Transvault it provides archive migration services using Transvault Migrator, preserving chain of custody and evidential weight from source to target systems.

WPDM generates revenue through two streams: software licensing resale from its vendor partners on a subscription/recurring basis, and professional services covering discovery, implementation, deployment, migration, and long-term support. Pricing is custom and quote-based, structured as multi-year enterprise contracts following a discovery and archive-statistics review. Go-to-market is relationship-driven, relying on direct phone and email outreach, vendor referrals, and a high proportion of repeat customers and referrals, with customers frequently supported for well over ten years. Remote project delivery has been adopted to reduce cost and enable broader geographic coverage.

Name

WPDM

Legal name

WPDM Ltd

Website

https://wpdm.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

WPDM Ltd is a UK-based specialist reseller and professional services provider for enterprise email and file archiving solutions. The firm delivers implementation and support services across the UK, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, reselling Waterford Technologies, Dell EMC, and Transvault products.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Archiving Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

E-Signature & Digital Transaction Management (DTM) (HDAEAGAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Secure File Transfer & Managed File Transfer (MFT) (HDADAFAK), Managed File Transfer (MFT) & B2B Integration (EDI) (HDAEAIAE)

Keywords

• Email archiving
• File archiving
• Archive migration
• EDiscovery solutions
• Compliance archiving

Headquarters

HQ city

Towcester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Resale: WPDM resells Waterford Technologies products (MailMeter, SISCIN), Dell EMC SourceOne, and Transvault Migrator as a sales and delivery partner. Revenue comes from software licensing fees from these vendor relationships.
2. Professional Services: Implementation, deployment, and long-term support services for archiving solutions. Includes archive migration services from planning through costing, design, and delivery. Projects can be completed remotely or on-site.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

WPDM is a specialist value-added reseller and professional services provider for enterprise email and file archiving solutions. It resells and implements partner products including Waterford Technologies MailMeter and SISCIN, Dell EMC SourceOne (with EmailXtender) and Discovery Manager, and Transvault Migrator. The company wraps these technologies with end-to-end services covering discovery, design, deployment, archive migration, and long-term support, delivered to organisations in the UK, Ireland, Mainland Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Product overview

WPDM is a specialist provider of email and file archiving solutions offering a portfolio of products. Core products include MailMeter (email compliance and archiving with eDiscovery capabilities) and SISCIN (file analysis and archiving hosted in Azure). Additionally, WPDM offers Dell EMC SourceOne and Discovery Manager as part of their service portfolio, and Transvault Migrator for archive migrations. The company provides professional services covering design, deployment, and long-term support for these archiving solutions across the UK, Ireland, Mainland Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SISCIN File Archiving File analysis and archiving solution hosted in Azure, providing a single dashboard for full visibility of file server data. Allows creation of policies for retention, deduplication, deletion or archiving, with flexible storage to cloud (AWS, Azure) or local destinations. For organisations with large unstructured file estates needing analysis, policy-based management, storage tiering and ransomware protection.
• MailMeter Email Archiving Email compliance and archiving software that captures emails in real-time, compresses, de-duplicates, digitally stamps and encrypts them to a secure archive. Available on-premise or in the cloud, with attachment stubbing to reduce mail store size and a DSAR/eDiscovery interface that can search millions of messages in seconds. For regulated organisations, government, legal firms and enterprises needing tamper-proof, legally defensible email archives.
• Dell EMC SourceOne and EmailXtender Enterprise email management, file archiving and eDiscovery suite from Dell EMC, resold and implemented by WPDM. Covers Email Management, File Archiving and eDiscovery modules, with EmailXtender for mailbox management. For enterprises running SourceOne who need specialist delivery and long-term support.
• Dell EMC Discovery Manager Dell EMC eDiscovery tool for performing in-depth searching, analysis and production across archived email and file data. Resold and implemented by WPDM as a Dell EMC delivery partner for organisations needing formal eDiscovery capabilities.
• Transvault Migrator Archive Migration Archive migration software and services for moving existing archives from one platform to another (for example to Office 365 or a new archiving vendor) while preserving chain of custody and evidential weight. WPDM guides customers through initial planning, costing, design and delivery as a Transvault delivery partner.
• Archiving Professional Services End-to-end professional services for enterprise email and file archiving, covering discovery and requirements analysis, archive statistics review, solution design, deployment, archive migration, and ongoing long-term support. Projects can be delivered remotely or on-site and are aimed at organisations seeking expert implementation and a long-term support relationship.

Quantifiable outcome

• Search through millions of email messages in seconds
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Waterford TechnologiescoreTechnology or IntegrationWPDM are Waterford Technologies Sales and delivery partners, specialising in MailMeter eMail archiving and SISCIN File Archiving solutions. They provide professional services for all modules of these products.
• Dell EMCcoreTechnology or IntegrationWPDM are Dell EMC Sales and delivery partners with expertise in SourceOne including Email Management, File Archiving and eDiscovery. They also handle EmailXtender and Discovery Manager products.
• TransvaultcoreTechnology or IntegrationWPDM are Transvault partners offering Transvault Migrator for archive migrations. They guide customers through migration from initial planning, costing, design and delivery ensuring archive data is migrated safely while maintaining evidential weight and Chain of Custody.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Smarsh: Smarsh is a broader compliance archiving and communications surveillance platform serving financial services, government, and regulated industries — the same end-customer segments as WPDM. Comparable as a larger incumbent offering enterprise archiving solutions that compete with MailMeter for similar compliance RFPs.
• Global Relay: Global Relay provides cloud-native compliance archiving and eDiscovery for regulated industries (financial services, legal, government). Comparable as a specialist competitor for the same DSAR, eDiscovery, and compliance use cases WPDM addresses in its regulated EMEA customer base.
• Veritas Technologies (Enterprise Vault): Veritas Enterprise Vault is a long-standing enterprise archiving platform with many UK/EMEA installs that WPDM-adjacent migration services target. Comparable because customers moving off Enterprise Vault rely on archive migration specialists — including competitors to WPDM — making Veritas a relevant incumbent in the same end-market.
• Proofpoint (Compliance Archive): Proofpoint offers enterprise email compliance archiving and information protection, competing directly with MailMeter in regulated customer RFPs. Comparable as a broader, well-funded incumbent with overlapping email archiving technology and similar regulated buyer profiles.
• OpenText (InfoArchive / Magellan): OpenText offers enterprise information management, archive, and eDiscovery products addressing the same compliance, retention, and DSAR use cases as WPDM. Comparable as a broader incumbent whose products and partner ecosystem overlap with WPDM's file and email archiving practice.
• Micro Focus (now OpenText) Enterprise File Archiving: Micro Focus (now part of OpenText) offered enterprise file archiving, information governance, and structured data management tools. Comparable as a broader incumbent whose product footprint overlaps with SISCIN's file analysis/archiving capability for unstructured data.

Emerging players

• Archive360: Archive360 is a niche archive migration and management vendor targeting Microsoft 365 and legacy archive transitions. Comparable as an emerging player with strong overlap to WPDM's Transvault-based migration services for organisations moving to O365.

Direct peers

• Waterford Technologies: WPDM's primary upstream vendor and a direct producer of MailMeter and SISCIN — the same products WPDM resells and implements. Comparable because they sell overlapping email and file archiving technology to similar regulated enterprise and government buyers, with WPDM functioning as the regional delivery layer for Waterford's products.
• Quadrotech (Barracuda Networks): Quadrotech (acquired by Barracuda) specialises in enterprise archive migration and PST management, directly overlapping with WPDM's Transvault-based migration practice and email compliance offering. Comparable because both target regulated enterprises undergoing platform transitions with similar chain-of-custody and eDiscovery needs.
• Transvault (Compass Group): WPDM's Transvault partner relationship makes Transvault both supplier and a directly adjacent service provider in archive migration. Comparable because both sell migration tooling and services to enterprises moving between SourceOne, Enterprise Vault, and O365 archive environments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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