--- title: "Archiving" url: https://maxistechnology.com/archiving/ type: page date: 2022-09-02 modified: 2026-09-11 markdown_url: https://maxistechnology.com/archiving.md author: "charles" --- # Archiving # Archiving made easy… Just let Alchemize Suite do it! Alleviate the headache of archiving with Alchemize Suite Alchemize Suite intelligently automates manual processes involved in data mapping. It's the most time-consuming and expensive portion of the data discovery and the key to implementing the rules that govern data. **By automating, Alchemize Suite simplifies, standardizes, and reduces the time & risks involved in data quality projects, such as cleansing, purging, and archiving.** Automation of data mapping reduces the demand for IT resources by approximately 80%, while IT budgets enjoy similar benefits. [Read our whitepaper](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Maxis_whitepaper_2021.pdf) ![Illustration of Maxis Technology's data archiving solution](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/alchemize-archive.webp) ## Benefits of Archiving with Alchemize Suite ![Icon for database storage optimization](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DB.webp) ### Storage Optimization Alchemize Suite reduces the amount of data within production systems and relocates the less relevant data to lower-cost storage repositories. This reduces capital and operating expenses and increases the performance of the production systems/applications. ![Icon for infrastructure cost optimization and reduction](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Cost.webp) ### Cost Optimization Alchemize Suite prepares data for archival providing technological agility, allowing for retirement of applications and/or systems. This translates into the ability to scale. Upgrading and investing in more efficient applications and/or systems will have a direct, positive impact on ROI. ![Icon for accessibility to archived data](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/archiving.webp) ### Archive Accessibility Alchemize Suite makes it easy to access your archived data. View, query and report on data in archives using industry-standard methods and tools. ![Icon for archived-data governance strategies](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2.webp) ### Governance Strategies Alchemize Suite archives and preserves data for compliance when retiring applications. It allows enterprises to implement strategies that govern, control and secure. Yet, it affords quick and seamless access for responding to audits, litigation and general investigation. ## Reasons for Archiving Data ![Icon for system performance testing](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Performace-test.webp) ### Stop Performance Degradation The amount of data in your system will require DBA's to adjust indexing - becoming a serious issue as they grow in size. Archiving is a valid solution for this problem. ![Icon for increasing system speed](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fast.webp) ### Increase Speed of System Shrinking a system will speed your system up overall. Remember how it performed when it had very little data? Archiving can bring back that performance. ![Icon for faster patching and upgrades](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/upgrade2.webp) ### Experience Faster and Easier Patching and Upgrades Upgrades and patching are much faster with less data in your system. The downtime is minimized and the risk is significantly reduced. ![Icon for mergers, divestitures, and data synchronization](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/merging.webp) ### Simplify Mergers & Divestitures The process of merging or divesting systems can typically be very daunting and time-consuming. Archiving reduces the size of the databases by moving historical data to a data warehouse. The smaller the database, the easier the process becomes. ![Icon for retiring obsolete applications](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/app.webp) ### Retire Old or Obsolete Applications Application retirement is the end of life for the system. So, it is important to effectively manage the size of the system before it's retired to only store pertinent data. ![Icon for infrastructure cost optimization and reduction](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Cost.webp) ### Reduce Additional Hardware Costs The capability to move data to a less expensive form of media allows the management team the flexibility to make key decisions about where to spend the funds to manage the systems. ![Icon for data migration to the cloud](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/migration.webp) ### Quicker and Safer Cloud Migration Reduce data with less risk and downtime if you're moving your system to the cloud. ## Other Archiving Considerations - ![Icon for legal data retention (litigation holds)](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/regulatory.webp) ### Litigation Holds Litigation holds are important when there is a liability to consider. The data in question must be locked down and can and will be inspected. This is an important feature of an archival process. - ![Icon for large-scale replatforming and data clean-up](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/replatform.webp) ### Large-Scale Data Migration/Clean Up Migrations are much faster when the data is taken to another location and/or system before the migration is delivered. The time factor of moving the data can be shrunk, often by 80%. With much less data to deal with, system downtime can be minimized. ## Archiving with Alchemize Suite: Simplified ![Infographic showing how data archiving works with the Alchemize Suite](https://maxistechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/archiving-infographic.webp) ## Do More with Alchemize Suite ![youtube-video-thumbnail](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q59ILQGIqCA/maxresdefault.jpg) #### ACCESSING DATA POST ARCHIVE Afraid of losing access to your archived data? Take a look at this quick video showcasing the new seamless IBM MAS interface. With a simple click of a button, you have access to reports that pull data from an archived database. You won't even notice you're getting information from a different database, it's that simple! ![youtube-video-thumbnail](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WwSV0rSuWB0/maxresdefault.jpg) #### ALCHEMIZE SUITE: POWERED BY MAXIS TECHNOLOGY Why Alchemize Suite reinvents how modern data project challenges are solved.