No Big Data analysis without archiving?

Gartner expects structured data archiving and application decommissioning to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ten percent.

Structured data is often transactional and belongs to financial accounting or back office. For example, these are personnel or patient records or other use cases that must be retained for many years, if not decades.

Archiving therefore also includes the assignment of retention periods, security in filing, and the ability to respond adequately to any circumstances such as audits, legal proceedings, or investigations.

PBS Software has been included in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement for the 2nd year in a row. This year, PBS rose from the top of the niche vendors to "Challenger".

The company is a pioneer in outsourcing archived SAP data to a column-oriented nearline database, originally SAP (formerly Sybase) IQ, now also Vector from Actian or DB2 BLU from IBM.

On the one hand, this technology ensures extremely strong compression of the data, and on the other hand, it also ensures its very fast analysis. It can be used in both operational and analytical SAP solutions and can also include third-party data in the analysis.

PBS solutions ensure tight data management that outsources as much data as possible from the primary database while still guaranteeing fast access to it. Compliance aspects are also taken into account.

In addition, PBS also offers the option of data management outside of an SAP system, as is required in the case of system shutdowns or company sales.