Document creation and collection volume is on the rise in the enterprise, due in no small part to the explosive growth in the use of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. This phenomenon creates a true Information Governance challenge for companies.

 

We live in a digital age defined by new types of shared content (email, video, blog posts, scanned images, audio files, and presentations) which improve organizational and personal productivity. But the challenge of making productive use of this growing diverse volume slows down application performance and increases the challenge of implementing proper archiving policies and procedures. Costs, infrastructure scalability, and the protection and preservation of documents are all therefore clearly impacted.

 

Faced with this challenge, it is critical ECM solutions be optimized for the management of "active" content, and ECM systems be enhanced by a complementary solution to manage and archive unstructured content – all in line with enterprise compliance strategy.

 

RSD, in partnership with Alfresco, offers RSD ArchLive for Alfresco, which provides both compliance benefits and performance enhancement for your Alfresco environment.

 

By offloading less active content from your ECM system to a robust archiving platform, performance of the Alfresco collaboration environment improves.

 

In addition, ArchLive for Alfresco provides the trusted environment for long-term archiving of content which new compliance regulations and industry best practices require. Regardless of the form or format, ArchLive for Alfresco ensures content and metadata are captured, archived (and encrypted if required) in compliance with laws and regulations in force, and available over potentially decades-long document lifecycles.

 

Finally, ArchLive for Alfresco is based on RSD Folders, an environment designed for the capture, classification, and distribution of extremely high-volume structured output streams from business applications like ERP and the mainframe. ArchLive for Alfresco delivers structured output to authorized Alfresco users – which until now was locked behind a “digital divide” in the data center and automatically links the human-created content with transactional information. RSD ArchLive for Alfresco key features and benefits include:

• Optimal archiving of all documents created, approved, published, and shared
• Enhancement and organization of diverse content
• Archiving of very large volumes of documents
• Alignment with compliance and retention requirements
• Automatically links human generated documents with high-volume transactional content
• Interoperability: full integration with Alfresco interfaces
• Performance improvement, centralization of data
• Reduction of operational costs of storage and long term archiving (media and maintenance)
• Enhanced user experience (simple, secure, available and effective access to content produced by ERP or Mainframe applications)
• Improved response time and reduction of risk of information loss