Arclib as a unified archiving foundation
Today, corporate and government information systems are under increasing pressure from business units operating in silos. On average, CAC 40 companies maintain around 30 different archiving or long-term preservation systems one dedicated solution per business application.
Behind each silo lie separate servers, databases, and storage systems not to mention the administrative costs required to manage all these components.
With Arclib, you have the opportunity to break down these technical silos by adopting a centralized platform: a single repository that collects and manages all digital archives from your business applications.
For example, one of our clients in the insurance sector channels data from nearly 300 accounting applications into our platform every day.
This unified approach to archiving enables your organization to save significant technical resources (servers, storage, network capacity) while also reducing administration time a major advantage over the long term.
Management of rights, roles, and access in Arclib
Ensuring the legal probative value of your electronic archive repository requires strict control over user rights, roles, and access during every consultation.
To meet this authentication requirement, Arclib, our unified archiving platform integrates seamlessly with the most common LDAP directories on the market.
As a result, each consultation can be fully verified: Who is accessing the archive? Are they authorized to do so? Have any modifications been made to the document?
All such activities and information are recorded in Arclib’s logs and can be presented as legally admissible evidence, in the form of a synthesized report, during legal or expert proceedings. In Arclib, everything is tracked and traceable.
A unified technical platform with no technical limits
With the massive digital transformation undertaken by companies and public institutions over the past decade, volumes of digital archives have continued to grow, while usage patterns have significantly evolved.
Ten years ago, electronic archiving systems were often seen as “cold storage” a place where documents were stored with the hope they would never need to be retrieved.
Today, with the dematerialization of transactions, contracts, email-based invoicing, and the widespread use of electronic signatures, archiving systems much like document management systems have become platforms for intensive access, reaching up to 1.5 million consultations per day, and even more for some of our clients in the telecommunications and energy sectors.
Arclib meets this challenge with a unique modular architecture: each function can be distributed across 1, 2, or 10 engines (servers), depending on demand intensity.
According to your needs, two engines can be dedicated to ingestion and ten to consultation or the reverse.
The same flexibility applies to the size of electronic objects: Arclib can handle millions of small files of just a few megabytes, as well as very large files reaching several terabytes. With Arclib, there are no limits on object size.
A centralized, unified archiving service that remains open
A unified and centralized archiving platform should never mean technical lock-in for our clients.
In its development strategy, Arclib has chosen to rely as much as possible on market-standard and open components.
All technical components of Arclib are fully interchangeable servers, operating systems, LDAP directories, storage systems, and more without in any way compromising the probative value or integrity of the digital archive repository.
Given that storage technologies are renewed roughly every three years, servers every five years, and operating systems every fifteen years, this technical strategy protects our clients from technological dead ends and the kind of “customer locking” practices common among certain American ECM vendors.