Archive IBM FileNet Legacy Content Securely, Compliantly, and Accessibly with Archon

Archon’s governed archival solution ensures your IBM FileNet legacy content is secure, compliant, and easily retrievable, allowing your enterprise to focus on active, business continuity.

Overview

When enterprises consolidate content into IBM FileNet, historical and inactive documents often occupy significant space, create compliance risks, and complicate ongoing content management. Migrating legacy content without an archival strategy can result in: 

  • Increased storage costs due to unnecessary historical content 
  • Compliance risks from lost audit trails, metadata, or retention rules 
  • Performance degradation due to large inactive datasets 
  • Difficulty retrieving historical content for audits or investigations 

Archon solves these challenges by archiving legacy content with full fidelity, including metadata, version history, and document relationships. Enterprises retain access to historical documents without overloading FileNet, while staying compliant with regulations like SOX, GDPR, and HIPAA. 

Why Choose Archon?

Secure Archival

Archon ensures sensitive legacy content remains protected, tamper-proof, and fully auditable, safeguarding critical business and regulatory records.

Features:

  • AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit
  • Role-based access control with clearly defined user privileges
  • Immutable WORM storage for evidential integrity
  • Full audit trails logging every access and modification
Secure Archival
Compliance-Ready Retention and Governance

Compliance-Ready Retention and Governance

Archon delivers regulatory-ready retention and governance, ensuring archived content meets SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, and other industry requirements. 

Features: 

  • Document-level retention policies configurable by type, source, or regulation 
  • Legal hold management automatically freezes content for audits or litigation 
  • Automated governance-driven purging based on retention policies 
  • Preservation of metadata, version history, and document relationships 

Easy and Contextual Retrieval

Archon ensures archived content is instantly discoverable, providing business, audit, and legal teams with secure access without FileNet or legacy system dependency. 

Features: 

  • Full-text and metadata search across all documents and attachments 
  • Pre-defined search templates plus ad-hoc query support 
  • Preservation of linked documents, attachments, and related records 
  • Secure retrieval of encrypted content with a complete audit trail 
Easy and Contextual Retrieval
Cost-Optimized Storage

Cost-Optimized Storage

Archon ensures historical and non-operational content is archived on a purpose-built storage tier, reducing FileNet storage and licensing costs while maintaining full accessibility.  

Features: 

  • Offloading inactive and historical content from FileNet to optimize storage costs and system performance 
  • Leveraging tiered storage to automatically move content based on access frequency 
  • Applying built-in data compression and compaction to minimize storage footprint 
  • Reducing FileNet infrastructure and licensing overhead 
  • Enabling retirement of legacy repositories without losing access to historical data 
Data Security and Compliance Guide

Product Security Whitepaper: Archon Data Suite

Check out our definitive guide to security & compliance within Archon Data Suite, and learn more about the product architecture, design considerations, our methodology, and our approach to data processing.

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