Data in production systems use highly available redundant Tier 1 storage systems. Enterprise data archiving is a proven strategy to relocate data to less expensive Tier 2 storage, reducing the need to continuously add to storage to production systems. Most experts conclude up to 80% of production data is no longer mission critical. Using database archiving reduces overall storage costs while maintaining access through the native application.

Enterprise data archiving solution enables centralized management of data classification and security policies. At the core of the EDMS is the Enterprise Metadata Manager, which manages multiple applications metadata for all data types, independent of the hardware platforms through a unified policy manager.

Data archiving solution for Oracle, organizations can create and deploy effective and consistent policies for managing, securing and storing data from a single policy console. The result is improved application performance and availability through smaller production database sizes, shorter backup and recovery times, reduced labor costs associated with production and test system maintenance and lower storage and infrastructure requirements and costs.