Systemware Content Cloud

Increase Access, Boost Security and Contain Costs

Systemware Content Cloud

With budgets tight and data volumes exploding, Information Technology departments at many corporations are looking for answers.
They are being pressed to create operational efficiencies, make content even more available, address disaster recovery, and reduce costs related to their overall operations. Traditional approaches to content storage and access have limitations, and they can be very expensive. However, a new approach improves access and security and does so at a tiny fraction of the cost. This solution stores content on less-expensive, distributed network of storage devices, providing online, high-availability content in an environment that reduces technology costs. The Systemware Content Cloud approaches content storage and access in a new way, and is poised to set a new standard in ECM.

Outside Pressures Highlight Need for Change

The statistics on the proliferation of content are very familiar, but the numbers bear repeating. Its been estimated that content creation globally will grow 50-fold by 2020, with 80 percent or more of that data being unstructured. Amid these pressures, some organizations are pushing themselves to expand their content management capabilities in order to improve customer service, encourage user self-service, and leverage various mobile technologies. Others are rightplatforming, shifting content taking up space on mainframes onto distributed environments. All of this is happening in an environment of still-constrained IT spending.

Challenges in Data Access and Security

As we discuss content management solutions with some of the biggest names in American business, we hear over and over again about the need to address four distinct challenges: 1. Create operational efficiencies. Corporations are looking to eliminate the multiple silos of content that remain all too common. They want to move away from multiple content repositories toward one comprehensive solution that stores and manages content from any platform to any platform, streamlining processes and reducing costs . And they need to make certain their solutions will able to address the growth of content volumes. 2. Address content availability issues. Consumers are no longer satisfied to have a mere six months of basic account information available online. They want more and more information immediately available. Corporations want to move content closer to consumers but also to their own users, their employees, to improve internal processes and customer service. 3. Lower costs of disaster recovery. A large bank can spend in excess of a million dollars a year on disaster-recovery software it hopes never to use. That is a luxury to which fewer and fewer corporations want to devote precious resources. Compliance considerations dictate the need for effective disaster recovery, yet many corporations lack failover capabilities for content. Systemware Content Cloud
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4. Reduce costs of mainframe operations. Many corporations are considering a blendedplatform deployment allowing them to optimize mainframe applications. By doing so, they will address the:

Cost of DASD Cost of MIPs consumption Cost of latency related to retrieval of content.

Solutions Foundation is Secure Storage

It was with insight into these challenges that companies face in managing ever-increasing volumes of data that Systemware developed Content Cloud. It is an integrated content network that incorporates powerful compression software in a common environment that supports instant availability of content online and reliable, low-cost disaster recovery through replication. Its foundation is secure storage. Content Cloud is one, central solution to access all content, regardless of repository or platform.

Systemware Content Cloud Diagram

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Systemware provides the ability to easily consolidate content silos. Often times the legacy system contains valuable content that has not yet reached the end of its useful lifecycle, but it is desirable to sunset the application. Systemware provides a low-cost, highly efficient solution for a systematic, reliable, and repeatable means to consolidate and reuse the contents of legacy repositories. Systemware Content Cloud
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Instead of requiring a total archive conversion, our Legacy Archive Processor (LAP) provides virtual access to the archived content and real-time conversion of only the data that is needed. This transparent approach, with its common interface for all content regardless of new or legacy, has dramatically reduced time, effort and the cost of consolidation while maximizing user acceptance. Content Cloud also facilitates IT infrastructure optimization, specifically mainframe. With Content Cloud, distributed servers efficiently store the ever-growing volume of content while mainframes deliver mission-critical applications rather than storage. Encryption is provided throughout the content lifecycle, at rest and in motion. Content Cloud protects massive data volumes by centrally managing all layers of content access policies and distribution privileges across each node; and it integrates easily with customer authentication technologies such as LDAP.

Instant Availability Improves Customer Satisfaction

With Content Cloud, enterprise content is available online, improving the ability to serve customers by providing access not just of recent information, but to all information retained according to regulatory compliance or corporate retention policies. It grants access to documents, content and segments of content based on rights and roles while preserving the documents original integrity. And it delivers replicating content stores, ensuring business continuity and uninterrupted user access.

Efficiencies through Replication and Compression

Another key to Content Cloud is replication, which facilitates content availability and provides cost-effective disaster recovery. Content is automatically replicated across content stores, creating an active failover site for enterprise content. In addition to moving archived content to distributed platforms, Content Cloud compresses content to consume between 50% and 90% less space and can be tailored by file type and algorithm for maximum efficiencies. When users access the compressed content, only the content or segment of content requested is uncompressed and delivered maximizing bandwidth utilization. Content Cloud retains all the functions of the Systemware repository, including message and browse file emulation as well as standard support for batch query, work queue and restore functions. Finally, Content Cloud is scalable, with the ability to address both volume growth and changing market dynamics. It can be deployed on-premise, hosted in Systemwares secure data center, or deployed using a combination of the two.

Content Cloud: Speed, Safety, Savings

As we consider the impact of Systemware Content Cloud, we can see it creates tangible benefits in the three key areas most valued by corporations needing innovative approaches to content storage and access: speed, safety and savings. Systemware Content Cloud
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Not surprisingly, corporations place differing urgency on each. One has accessibility issues while another needs help with security. But in discussing with IT managers an arc of everything that can happen to a piece of content throughout the environment, one of these goals resonates with most all of them. If a solution to that problem solves other issues, even better, those other components are not only potentially useful, theyre included for free.

Speed from find-ability and access

These days, speed often comes down to the ability to find and then access enterprise information. Users are not particularly interested in searching for information. They want to find very specific content quickly and efficiently and then put that information to work to make informed business decisions, meet regulatory requirements, and serve customers. A basic index, much like a books table of contents, provides a way of logically segmenting and quickly referencing target content in a single document or report. With basic indexing, companies can select and segment important information within a document. But by applying index upon index, companies can drill down into a document to find and deliver very specific bits of content. Content Cloud delivers greatly enhanced performance through the use of multiple levels of indexing. This approach, which is far more detailed and comprehensive than traditional corporate indexes, acts as a layered table of contents to accelerate and focus search results. Content Cloud provides instant access and delivery of targeted information within the context of the business process, helping users work more efficiently and make more informed decisions.

Safety from a secure, compliant foundation

Infrastructure soundness is a key concern in an era so driven by issues of security and compliance. Another element of safety is forward-looking, and relates to the ability of a solution to scale as the business grows. Content Cloud provides corporations with a secure, compliant and scalable foundation. System resiliency comes from an automatic replication of content and active failover, ensuring continuous availability for business continuity and cost-effective disaster recovery. Content Cloud is integrated with external security systems for access rights; and role-based access is defined from a common location for all nodes, easing the administrative burden. Document/ report level encryption -- when content is both in motion and at rest -- provides assurance and content security. A system monitor provides an audit of system access for compliance, while parallel processing and load balancing provides the ability to scale both horizontally and vertically maximizing system throughput and availability.

Savings from consolidation, mainframe optimization

About 60 percent of IT spending worldwide goes toward infrastructure and operations, so its no surprise that companies looking for savings start with infrastructure. But having made extensive investments in mainframe technology, companies are looking for ways to use that technology in the most appropriate way while moving other functions to distributed platforms. They want to increase storage savings, lower CPU consumption and, where possible, reduce network traffic. Systemware Content Cloud
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Content Cloud consolidates content from any platform or third-party repository into one, central solution, delivering cost savings and streamlined operations. Content Cloud provides the crossplatform hybrid deployment flexibility that optimizes the utilization of existing infrastructure, improving performance and providing operational efficiencies. Content Cloud also provides a common API to access any content from any platform and enables integration and application independence. This increases storage savings, lowers CPU consumption, and reduces network traffic through the compression of content on the most costappropriate platform.

Content Cloud: A new standard in ECM

Systemwares ability to manage and deploy a flexible and responsive platform to manage an expanding content storage environment while at the same time increasing system stability, responsiveness, resiliency, and lowering costs, in a centrally managed content network, has opened the way to new approaches to content storage and access. Content Cloud truly has established a new best practices mark for ECM.

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Systemware, Inc. is a leading ECM company that effectively and efficiently capture, index, store and manage the billions of documents generated by some of the largest organizations in the country. Systemware enables customers across vertical industriesincluding financial institutions, insurance, healthcare and retailto make better business decisions, capitalize on information assets, improve customer service, reduce operating costs and ensure compliance. Systemware offers a variety of ways to license and deploy its software traditional implementation, cloud or hybrid.