At a glance
There is an age-old conflict of interests. Computer systems need to stay lean and agile, shedding old information that is rarely referenced, while some information must be kept by organisations for many years after its day-to-day relevance has past.
Examples include financial information that must be kept for seven years and, as an extreme case, adoption and fostering information that must be kept for 100 years.
The Sentinel Archiving and Retention Utility can help with this issue. Configurable extraction rules allow you to decide exactly when data can be removed from front-line systems and held in the retention database. Tailored business screens provide controlled access to users, based on the same security model used in its original system. Finally, the configurable deletion rules allow you to decide which data is held in the Utility and for how long.