System and Method for Capturing Data Sent by a Mobile Device

A system for capturing data originating from at least one device comprising:

• at least one device operable to send data over a network;
• at least one network element operable to receive data from the at least one device;
• an application programming interface (API) operable to retrieve data from the at least one network element;
• and
• a database operable to store and/or archive the retrieved data.

A method for capturing data originating from at least one device comprising the steps of:

• at least one sender device sending data over a carrier network to at least one recipient device;
• an application programming interface (API) retrieving from the carrier network the data sent over the carrier network by the at least one sender device by accessing a carrier network element over a secure web connection through at least one firewall;
• archiving the data sent over the carrier network by the at least one device in at least one database server and/or at least one hot server;
• and
• an analytics engine analyzing the data sent over the carrier network;
• wherein the data is in a form native to the at least one sender device;
• wherein the data includes at least one of a short message service (SMS) message or a multimedia message service (MMS) message;
• wherein the at least one sender device and the at least one recipient device do not include any additional software applications to implement the steps of the method.