Brief: Database Archiving Offers New Use Cases That Go Beyond Compliance And Performance

Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals often pay little attention to database archiving compared with other data management functions, largely because organizations focus only on compliance and performance use cases and don't consider the broader business, technology, and cost benefits. Database archiving is a highly flexible data management technology that can be applied to a wide range of business situations from supporting new initiatives (such as big data analytics and predictive analytics) and assisting with security investigations and real-time fraud detection, to supporting the retirement of legacy applications and helping to recover corrupted data on production systems. Enterprises that invest in enterprisewide data archiving strategy are more likely to find more than one benefit in doing so, whether it's business-, infrastructure-, or cost-related.