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Application Decommissioning from Legacy System to Archon Data Store

Application decommissioning shuts down an app while preserving compliant access to its data. Retirement ends the lifecycle and usually replaces it with a new system.

Enterprise Data Archiving | Archon Data Store

Enterprise Archiving is the practice of securely preserving enterprise data and communications for compliance, cost optimization, and long-term accessibility.

SAP DART Implementation

Legacy SAP ECC systems hold decades of data, increasing costs, For many enterprises across various industries, it is a daily reality to face the same challenge. How to stay compliant while managing the relentless growth of financial and tax data?

Unified archive for financial records supporting Dodd-Frank compliance

Dodd-Frank compliance is about proving what happened, not simply proving that records were retained. Regulators expect firms to produce complete, accurate, and accessible evidence on demand.

Transforming fragmented enterprise data into trusted, governed information with Archon.

Enterprise data governance establishes the policies, ownership, and controls needed to keep data trusted, secure, and compliant.

Microsoft Dynamics AX data migrated to Archon Data Store, and the Dynamics AX system gets retired.

With Microsoft support ended, organizations running AX face increasing security, compliance, and operational risks without access to vendor patches or updates.

Enterprise data audit workflow showing Archon transforming data into audit-ready information.

A data audit evaluates how data is collected, stored, accessed, governed, retained, protected, and used across an organization.

Archon data storage infographic with cold, warm, hot layers, cloud, and documents on the left, shield in foreground, and three legal icons on the right (scales, gavel, courthouse).

Cold data storage holds data you rarely access but cannot delete, yet most enterprises treat it as a pure cost decision and skip the governance step.

Illustration of a COBOL-based system on the left transferring data to a blue Archon cloud database with a security shield on the right.

COBOL modernization is fundamentally a data challenge. Preserving decades of business records, rules, and context is often harder than migrating the applications themselves.

Archon archive platform supporting FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance for regulated records.

FDA 21 CFR Part 11 establishes the requirements that make electronic records and electronic signatures legally equivalent to paper records and handwritten signatures in FDA-regulated industries.

Data archiving vs backup compared across purpose, retention, retrieval, and governance in one diagram.

Data archiving vs backup is a question of purpose: backup exists to restore lost data, archiving exists to retain and retrieve data you must keep.

SAP ADK versus Archon

SAP ADK is designed for archiving, not decommissioning. It helps reduce database growth and improve SAP performance by moving inactive data into archive files while keeping it accessible through SAP.

Lakehouse Archiving

Database-centric archiving was built for relational data and single-source retrieval, creating sprawl when your estate is now 60% unstructured and multi-application.

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