The Key to Simple Data Archival
Data archival historically is an extensive and time-consuming process that requires careful planning, testing, oversight, and validation to ensure data integrity. However, data archiving doesn’t have to be this complex. Thanks to technology advancements, some companies now offer archival-as-a-service and can offer services or products that can streamline the data archival process and save costs, protect data integrity, and expedite time-to-market.
One such strategy these companies implement to help clients attain these sought-after business goals is one-click archival. This functionality allows the data archival process to be simplified down to a single click, no matter the current state of data. When designed with the proper intent, one-click archival should allow clients to:
- Perform data archival on a source system with a single click
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards
- Protect data integrity with accurate metadata for effective data management, authorization, and eventual system decommission
- Access archived data easily for historical & analytical value or for complying with audit requirements
Why consider one-click archival?
One-click archival can be a game changer for various situations, including dealing with:
- Legacy systems with no Subject Matter Expert (SME) support and minimal knowledge about their functionality.
- Read-only systems that are no longer actively queried
- Compliance archival when systems must be archived for compliance reasons, even when they have little business value
- Merged systems that have been inherited through mergers and acquisitions with unclear data contents
How does one-click archival measure up to traditional data archival?
There are multiple advantages to using one-click archival vs. traditional data archival. Users can experience:
- Over 90% time saved during implementation
- The ability to address systems without SMEs to define archiving requirements
- Easier management of compliance with reduced infrastructure and legacy maintenance costs
- Efficiently handled data even when it has uncertain future uses
How can I achieve one-click archival?
Traditionally, organizations have been required to invest significant time and resources into data management. This involves identifying data to be archived, planning the archival process, extracting the data, ensuring data integrity and security, and making it accessible on demand. This can often be a cumbersome and lengthy procedure that can take up to several months or years to complete. These prolonged timelines strain resources, build costs, and increase the risk of non-compliance with data retention regulations.
Having a streamlined path to data archival is increasingly important as a result. Yet the benefits of one-click archival are often overlooked as very few companies offer this feature. You can, however, achieve one-click archival with Archon Data Suite from Platform 3 Solutions, a comprehensive solution that elevates data archival to the next level. It seamlessly integrates with existing systems, simplifies the transition from legacy systems, and ensures compliance with data retention requirements.
With this product suite, data archiving is simplified to a process that can take a matter of weeks vs. the months or years that is required of traditional archiving. This saves time, costs, and resource overhead while minimizing risk of compliance issues.
What is Archon Data Suite?
It’s a powerful set of tools that provides an end-to-end solution for the complex challenges of data archiving, migration, analysis, decommissioning, and management.
Comprised of three essential components — Archon Data Store, Archon ETL, and Archon Analyzer — this suite empowers organizations to streamline data processing and harness the inherent potential of one-click archival.
Archon Data Store for a Unified Data Platform
At the core of Archon Data Suite is Archon Data Store, a unified and compliant data management platform. This robust tool brings data from any source into a centralized place as a single pane of glass for eliminated data silos and 360-degree views of all information.
With seamless data engineering, analytics, data science, and machine learning, Archon Data Store simplifies data management to streamline meeting compliance requirements and facilitate a comprehensive approach to data processing.
Archon ETL for Efficient Data Archiving
Another vital component of Archon Data Suite is Archon ETL, used to expedite the archiving, migration, analysis, and decommissioning of data from legacy systems including Lotus Notes or PeopleSoft. Its goal is to efficiently extract, transform, and load data to preserve quality, security, and integrity during the transition. No matter where you’re coming from or how you’re attempting to modernize, Archon ETL simplifies the process and protects data safety.
Archon Analyzer for Intelligent Insights
For an added layer of intelligence, Archon Analyzer is implemented as the final of the 3 products within the Archon Data Suite. Leveraging advanced metadata handling and data crawling techniques, this tool is used for valuable and clear data insights. When planning data migrations or other modernization processes, the use of this tool ensures your data is observable, accessible, and secure.
What now?
You want what’s best for your company and your infrastructure. This typically involves being aware of heavy cost and time investments while also complying with global regulations and audit requirements.
With Archon Data Suite, you can achieve faster time-to-market with reduced costs and more reliable and predictable results. One-click archival is just one feature of many that the Archon suite implements, ensuring efficient data modernization is a reality for any organization.
What’s more, users don’t have to worry about being handed this product suite without further direction. Platform 3 Solutions includes end-to-end services to ensure that the complete data process helps business to achieve expectations and end goals.
Ready to take action and transform your data management and archival processes?
