Legacy data refers to historical information stored in older systems. This data is no longer actively used for daily operations, but it is still crucial for compliance, historical analysis or other business purposes.
Investing in effective legacy data management strategies is a business imperative, not just a best practice. Archiving legacy data is a crucial aspect of modern data management and offers significant benefits for organizations.
Effectively managing this data ensures its availability and accessibility when needed, such as for audits or historical analysis. It also provides historical trends and patterns that inform strategic planning.
Proper legacy data management prevents data loss or corruption, which can be catastrophic for businesses.
Good legacy data management practices improve operational efficiency by minimizing outdated or irrelevant data. This frees up storage space and enhances system performance and speed.
Archiving legacy data helps organizations decommission older systems, which reduces hardware, software and maintenance costs. This process further frees up valuable space on primary storage systems, allowing for more efficient resource use.
Many industries have regulations requiring data retention for specific periods, and archiving helps meet these requirements while keeping data secure and accessible.
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A comprehensive legacy data management strategy is crucial due to unique challenges, including data compatibility, storage, security and accessibility.
Managing legacy data can seem overwhelming, but a clear roadmap makes it more manageable. This roadmap should include plans for data auditing, cleaning, conversion, migration and archiving.
Converting legacy data into a standardized, usable format is a crucial step. This involves transforming data from outdated systems into a format accessible by current systems. This process may include data cleansing, deduplication and validation to ensure accuracy and relevance.
When converting data, maintain strict adherence to data integrity to ensure no valuable information is lost or altered. Professional data conversion tools or services can provide the expertise needed for large-scale projects.
Archiving involves moving data that is no longer actively used but still valuable from live systems to long-term storage. This frees up primary storage space and keeps data secure and accessible for future needs.
Maintain a comprehensive data catalog with detailed information about the archived data, such as its origin, nature and storage location. This facilitates easy retrieval. Archived data should be backed up regularly, and its integrity should be checked periodically to prevent degradation. Archiving must comply with relevant data retention policies and regulations.
In a recent exercise, Nuxeo demonstrated it could support over 11 billion documents in a multiple repository system. We found that implementing the larger system with multiple repositories was a better approach. Not only was it more cost-efficient, but partitioning active content from archival content was the right approach.
While most customers do not have multiple billions of documents that they work on regularly, they do need these billions of documents to be fully searchable and available when they need them.
Download the 11B document studyData migration involves transferring legacy data from old systems to more current, efficient systems without compromising integrity. This requires thorough planning and execution. Here’s how to establish a migration strategy:
Data cleaning is an integral part of managing legacy data, requiring meticulous attention to detail to ensure accuracy and integrity. This process identifies and rectifies errors, inconsistencies and inaccuracies, such as duplicate entries or missing values.
Data cleaning enhances overall data quality, making it more reliable for analysis and decision-making. Tools and software with automated data cleaning features can streamline this process, reducing effort and minimizing human error.
Nuxeo helps organizations manage and modernize legacy archive data, ensuring valuable historical information remains accessible, secure and compliant.
Nuxeo includes several features to manage and organize digital assets. This includes:
The solution also provides a versioning system, allowing users to create and archive document versions automatically or on-demand. This enables easy reversion to previous versions if needed.
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Nuxeo is a highly scalable, cloud-native enterprise content management solution with rich multimedia support. With Nuxeo, you get modern benefits, including:
Cloud-native and scalable architecture: Nuxeo works how and where you want it to. Its cloud-first, modular architecture scales horizontally and independently, handling even the heaviest workloads in real time for high performance.
Adaptable AI capabilities: Nuxeo Insight empowers smarter predictions without a team of data scientists. Business-specific artificial intelligence is just a few clicks away.
Extensible API: Nuxeo features an extensive, document-oriented REST API. This allows for creating, querying and managing complex content interactions, supporting low-code application integration.
Workflow automation: Nuxeo's workflow management and automation systems deliver the business efficiencies enterprises need to remain competitive.
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