We see that Save2Archive.com is created for the companies around the world. The product is suited for companies that have any of those challenges:
Save2archive is designed to solve various types of problems. Most of problems are caused by legacy systems. Using legacy systems companies are faced to security risks, expensive maintenance, incompatibility, poor data quality, compliance, lack of legacy skill set and support from manufacturer. All solutions of problems sound simple and logical, however for us it is important to show possibilities of Save2Archive.com.
Legacy systems inhibit digital transformation
There are many cases when business rules are built in legacy systems and poor documented. Business people are not ready to define those rules again and change their paper processes to digital ones because everything works and IT personnel will fix any issue or find workaround.
In order to solve the problem our approach is to generate all digital documents, reports and unload valuable data and load those digital assets into your Save2Archive.com archive system instance. Therefore, legacy systems are freed from storing digital assets and can be excluded from new digital processes. However, Save2Archive.com system can be included into new digital environment as a source of historical digital assets.
Old legacy systems are used as data sources and generates expenses
When company uses legacy systems only as data sources for reports or storage of documents then it takes a lot of energy, attention and financial resources to keep them up.
Using Save2archive.com solution to bring all digital assets together and keep data from being scattered across company’s networks and costly legacy data sources. Central archive storage costs are less than keep up running two or more old systems.
Legacy systems that are not compatible and integrable with other systems and requires specific infrastructure and licenses
Legacy systems often are not integrable with modern systems (at least it is not so simple and it is often required custom-coding).
Therefore, moving all data to central archive storage (that could be accessed by API) is one of solutions how this integrality problem could be solved.
Legacy systems are not compliant with GDPR or similar requirements
Over time, business regulations and laws change. GDPR is even new regulation. Some legacy systems are not changeable to be compliant with GDPR because it could require data base and a lot of complex source code changes that could negatively affect legacy system’s functionality or even data quality.
Old systems were created when the world did not have GDPR. Therefore, majority of companies did not pay attention of detailed audit logs, masking personal data, set up retention period for personal data and other required data storing and processing activities. Legacy systems should be changed to systems that are built according to GDPR regulations.
Lack of support causes security and availability risks
What happens when the vendor stops supporting your legacy system? Company can either support it by themselves, or upgrade to latest version of software. Company lacks options and it is pushed to pay more for knowledge or pay more for support for the same reason. Unsupported systems are like a magnet for security and availability risks.
In order response to those risks the best way is to avoid the risks, that could be done by migrating valuable digital assets to newer and cheaper storage system.
Expensive data storage is used for storing rarely needed archived data
Data storage has never been as costly as it is today. Those complex machines are designed to store and serve terabytes of data for thousands of simultaneously working users. Storing data is just part of problem, company also need to create backups and store them. If a company stores its rarely used archive data in expensive storage, it reduces the efficiency of the company's operations. To improve the situation, rarely used archive data should be migrated to less expensive data storage and managed by archival system.
Legacy systems contains undocumented business rules and algorithms
Few legacy systems have adequate documentation and may have been written for hardware that is no longer available. Majority of legacy systems contains undocumented business rules embedded into source code. This is reason why business people often object to eliminate or replace old systems. In these situations, our approach is to create PDF (or other type of printouts) type of files by using old systems as generators (using its embedded business rules, algorithms and data interpretation rules). Content of PDF files remove the need of data interpretation using legacy skills set. Number of generated PDF files is equal to number of records in legacy data base. All PDF are imported into Save2Archive.com system.
Legacy skill set is limited and complicated to maintain
Legacy applications require a legacy skill set, which fewer and fewer people possess. Once the employees carrying these skills retire, your available talent pool shrinks. It is complicated to hire new specialists because old technologies are no attractive and motivating.
The best solution is to get rid of old technologies and your data is handled by one easy-to-manage system.
The main goal to implement save2archive.com is to decrease different operational costs and to help companies to adapt to a digital world. Save2Archive.com system is Big Data solution for a long-term storage of large amounts of digital content (data and documents), thus reducing the need to maintain infrastructure,
licenses, expertise and manpower to support multiple legacy systems.
Implementation of save2archive.com could get some of these benefits for business: