Business Archive Management (BAM) - Proactive archiving stage

Business Archive Management

» »	Overview Archiving Stages Chaotic Reactive Sustaining Proactive Value-add
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Green Archival Storage

Archive vs. Backup

Proactive Business Archive Management

Archiving Defined

Plasmon Archive Solutions

Optimizing archives for business use

Proactive organizations are shifting their archiving priorities from corporate governance and cost savings to creating incremental business value. Archived information is routinely used to enhance customer relationships, develop new products, and/or improve operational efficiency.

Key attributes of Proactive organizations

» Business requirements drive archive composition
» Defined archives exist for all information identified as having
   business value
» Ability to comply with all compliance and corporate governance
   regulations
» Archiving processes meet business objectives such as reusing
   information and enabling “green” technology
» Archive silos become consolidated and/or fully federated
» Archives have sustained several generations of technology
   changes
» Storage infrastructure is fully optimized regarding cost and
   performance criteria

Proactive Archive Business Management adds business value
Proactive Business Archive Management is fundamentally different from Sustaining Business Archive Management. Sustaining organizations are primarily focused on minimizing the loss of business value by complying with regulations, and optimizing the storage infrastructure. Proactive organizations have already established the necessary archiving processes to minimize business and legal risks, and are seeking to create value by effectively reusing archived information.

As part of this process, investment decisions are no longer justified exclusively on reducing risk. Creating new revenue streams, increasing customer loyalty, leveraging corporate cost structures, and providing environmentally responsible alternatives become important investment criteria.

Benefits of moving to Value-add Business Archive Management
Only a handful of companies in the world may decide to upgrade their Business Archive Management processes to the Value-add stage. If your organization decides to take this step, you will experience the following benefits:

» An information asset management process that is completely
   linked to your business objectives and goals
» Complete cost optimization for your archived information
   including archive applications and processes
» Maximum incremental business value generated from the
   reuse of information assets
» Higher levels of business innovation

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