Archiving data, decommissioning applications, and managing your data doesn’t have to be complicated. ADS brings everything together in a single platform so you can effortlessly store and manage your data.

Whether structured, semi-structured, or unstructured, ADS stores and manages any form of data from any source or application. It also supports various ingestion processes, offering maximum flexibility with your record types, like table, data, file, or compound.

As your business grows, your data storage capabilities should scale with you—without compromising performance. ADS gives you the best of both worlds with high-level performance that scales. ADS’s microservice-based architecture makes scalability possible, and storage tiering and on-demand scaling allow ADS to achieve and maintain exceptional performance.

Accessing data when and where you need it is crucial. But if you store data in dozens of platforms or silo it, searching can be difficult. ADS gives end users simple yet powerful functionality by offering pre-built templates and customizable formats to search for data. You can even configure permissions so that only a select group of users can search for specific data or contents.

Your storage needs will ebb and flow. We built ADS with storage tiering to support your level of need while balancing performance with cost. It also lets you schedule tier migration or do it on demand as your storage needs grow. And you can automate the process, so it migrates in the background—unaffecting the user experience.

Once your admin determines what actions need to be logged, ADS can log those user activities within the system for auditing or review. ADS stores these logs for easy searching and filtering when you need to understand what actions and events transpired.

Managing and storing data is one thing, but discovery is just as important. ADS takes a metadata-driven approach, centralizing the metadata to help you gain absolute visibility into the data flow, retention and disposition and make it easier to search and find data.

When ADS ingests data and documents, it validates and help ensurea smooth migration. Verification includes everything from correctly formatted fields to meeting predetermined parameters, identifying meta data and referential integrity. Only after the data or documents meet all requirements does ADS ingest them into the archive.

If you store sensitive information in ADS—like personally identifiable information—security is paramount. You don’t want it to be accessible to the wrong people. Data encryption ensures that only authorized users with the proper access can view information. With ADS, encryption, masking, and role-based authentication are some of the standard security measures in place.

Create an unbreakable chain of custody to maintain data integrity, throughout the entire data lifecycle. ADS promotes data integrity and validity by taking a metadata-driven approach that allows for validation and decision support before any data in ingested. Within the platform, you can view chain of custody and validation reports.

Sensitive data, like personally identifiable information, is paramount for compliance. But not everyone should have access to it. The ADS platform lets you mask this data at the field level. For example, only specific users can access the complete data, and others can either view partial or no data.

While compliance rules arestandard within some industries, your organization may have additional retention and compliance policies. ADS helps automate retention by letting you set custom rules within your organization. Admins and retention managers can determine and apply a retention period for all or selected records, like retaining employee records for five years post-termination or deleting financial records seven years after the contract end date.

During a lawsuit, you need access to all required data—even if its retention policy expires soon. When you put data on a legal hold in ADS, it keeps the data until the legal proceedings endto ensure no one disposes the data before removing the hold.

Data disposition can be stressful if you’re worried about accidentally deleting vital records or not complying with retention policies. ADS creates a purge list once the retention period for a set group of records ends. Only after an admin or retention manager approves deletion the disposition process begins.