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Flatirons Digital Innovations specializes in content and data management for highly regulated industries. One of our core disciplines is data archiving and application decommissioning. We’ve archived 100’s of terabytes of data from 100’s of applications for clients across healthcare, energy, financial services, manufacturing, and the public sector, helping clients recoup valuable budget, safeguard data, and make historical data available for analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
These resources provide information based on some of the most common questions about data archiving and application decommissioning.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Data archiving is an indispensable activity that can help your organization enormously if done in a smart way and hinder your business if neglected. Here’s a review of some of the basics.
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Application Decommissioning 101:
What It Is and Why Your IT Department Should Care
A foundation for understanding why application decommissioning should be a key part of your IT strategy.
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7 Strategic and IT Initiatives Supported by Application Decommissioning
A view into strategic IT and business initiatives that surface the opportunity for an evaluation of your organization’s application portfolio.
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Application Decommissioning ROI Opportunities and Risk Factors
Learn about the ROI opportunities of decommissioning legacy applications and the risks of holding onto legacy systems.
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The Application Decommissioning Process
An overview of the five-step process to decommission legacy applications.
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7 Pillars of an Effective Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) Process
Seven pillars of ETL, a critical part of moving data from legacy systems to an archive.
DEEPER EXPLORATION
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What to Look for in a Compliant Data Archiving Solution
Five capabilities organizations in highly regulated industries should look for in a data archiving platform.
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Application Decommissioning Checklist: Identifying Candidates
This checklist can help you identify applications that may be right for decommissioning.
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Application Decommissioning:
Getting Started
Key factors to consider when initiating an application decommissioning strategy and how to get started.
DETAILED INSIGHTS
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10 Best Practices for Data Archiving and Application Decommissioning
Best practices for successfully decommissioning legacy applications and archiving their data while avoiding common pitfalls along the way.
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The Application Decommissioning Struggle: Managing Change
Tips to manage the effect of application decommissioning on people and business processes.
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Mainframe Data Archiving: Tricks to Archiving IBM Cobol IMS and IDMS Data
How Flatirons decommissioned two in-house, custom-built, mainframe applications that had been in use more than 30 years.