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Business Archive Management
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Archiving Stages
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Sustaining Business Archive Management

 

Gaining control over the archive process

  Sustaining organizations understand that constantly reacting to seemingly uncontrolled archive requirements and requests is inherently risky and expensive. As a result, they start implementing formal processes to gather archive requirements and identify specific information assets for archiving. Business and IT managers collaborate among each other, and archiving processes begin to integrate with the business.

Business Archive Management in Sustaining companies supports the majority of corporate governance concerns and promotes efficient use of storage resources. And the benefits of reusing archived information start becoming apparent. 

Key attributes of Sustaining organizations

» Defined archives exist for most domains subject to compliance
» General business objectives such as corporate governance and
   implementing “green” technologies are important components
   of the archiving process
» Archiving processes comply with most regulations and
   e-discovery is enabled
» Primary storage is optimized by keeping archive data on less
   expensive storage devices
» Discovery across domains is possible and automated
» Silos of archived information start becoming
   integrated/federated
» Archives can be sustained over time and survive multiple
   technology upgrades
Sustaining Business Archive Management is the fork in the road
At a minimum, companies should strive to reach the Sustaining stage of Business Archive Management. Corporate governance requirements are being met effectively and efficiently. Once your archives are minimizing risk and sustaining the business, it is important to evaluate whether it is financially and strategically beneficial to continue the evolutionary process. For some companies in some industries, the decision to advance to the Proactive stage will be easy. And other non-regulated and non-information centric businesses may find that further investments do not provide adequate returns.

Benefits of moving to Proactive Business Archive Management
The benefits of advancing to the Proactive stage include the following:

» Greater ability to reuse your information assets to generate
   incremental business value
» Complete cost optimization for your archived information
   including archive applications and processes
» Improved access to information results from the
   consolidation/federation of archives

Take the Business Archive Management Assessment to learn if your organization is Sustaining, and discover practical recommendations on how to improve your archiving processes.