OpenText InfoArchive
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What is OpenText InfoArchive
OpenText InfoArchive is an enterprise information archiving platform used to preserve, manage, and provide access to long-term business records and application data. It is typically used by IT, compliance, and records management teams to retire legacy applications, consolidate archives, and support retention and eDiscovery requirements. The product focuses on policy-based retention, immutable storage options, and searchable access to archived content and metadata across multiple source systems.
Application decommissioning support
InfoArchive is designed to extract and preserve data and content from legacy applications so organizations can retire systems while maintaining access to records. It supports long-term retention of both structured data and associated documents, which helps reduce dependency on the original application runtime. This is a common requirement in regulated industries where historical access must remain available after system replacement.
Compliance-oriented retention controls
The platform provides retention and disposition capabilities aligned to records management and regulatory archiving use cases. It supports governance features such as retention policies, legal hold workflows, and auditability to demonstrate control over archived information. These capabilities differentiate it from general-purpose object/archive storage services that primarily focus on low-cost storage tiers.
Search and access for archives
InfoArchive includes mechanisms to index and retrieve archived information for business users, auditors, and legal teams. It is built to provide access without restoring entire datasets from cold storage, which can be important for investigations and eDiscovery. This positions it as an archive access layer rather than only a storage target.
Not a general storage platform
InfoArchive is primarily an information archiving and access solution, not a broad storage management layer for primary workloads. Organizations still typically rely on separate infrastructure or cloud storage services for general-purpose object, file, or block storage. If the main need is low-cost archival storage only, the product can be more than required.
Implementation can be complex
Archiving and decommissioning projects often require source-system analysis, data mapping, retention design, and validation for legal/compliance needs. Integrations and migration scope can increase delivery time compared with simpler archive-tier storage services. Ongoing governance also requires clear ownership across IT, legal, and records teams.
Cost and licensing considerations
Enterprise archiving platforms commonly involve licensing based on capacity, connectors, and feature modules, plus professional services for migrations. Total cost can be higher than using archive storage tiers alone, especially when requirements are limited to long-term storage. Budgeting should account for both initial ingestion projects and ongoing access/indexing needs.
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OpenText Corporation
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
1991
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