Bucap and Actian X: A Long-Term Solution for Long-Term Archiving
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Backup & Recovery
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
- Human Resources
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Personnel Tracking & Monitoring
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Bucap S.p.A., headquartered outside of Rome, Italy, has been providing industry-leading document archiving and management services to public, private, and government organizations for more than 30 years. It operates eight storage facilities in Northern and Central Italy, housing more than 1,000 linear kilometers of physical documents and more than 500 million digital documents. On any given day, Bucap customers retrieve more than 4,500 documents while digitally archiving more than 68,000. Bucap is not just analyzing huge quantities of data; it’s archiving huge quantities of data on behalf of its clients. Some of that data may not be touched for decades, but some of that data may be required at a moment’s notice.
The Challenge
Bucap, a leading document archiving and management services provider, was faced with the challenge of managing and archiving massive amounts of data for public, private, and governmental organizations throughout Italy. The company needed a flexible, scalable database that could enable quick and easy customization of applications in response to evolving business requirements. The data may not be touched for decades, but some of it may be required at a moment’s notice. Bucap’s customers needed assurance that their data was secure and that they could access it without delay if and when necessary. In 1995, Bucap realized that meeting the company’s growth goals would depend on smart investments in IT. They needed to build an archiving solution that would be scalable, reliable, highly available, and easy to maintain to support all the business processes of storage, indexing, retrieving, and displaying documents at the service levels they wanted to offer their customers.
The Solution
Bucap chose to deploy the Actian X Hybrid database due to its proven high availability and security, and a rapid application development environment enabled by the Actian OpenROAD language. The Actian X Hybrid Database combines the industry-leading Ingres transactional and Vector analytic databases, bundled with world-class integration and enterprise monitoring. It offers a complete, full-featured relational database management system (RDBMS) with a suite of options for easy access to information. Actian X also offered greater ease of administration than competitive products, which would enable Bucap IT personnel to spend more time focused on other technical opportunities. To facilitate customer access to the database, the Bucap IT team used Actian OpenROAD to build a customer-facing portal. Its intuitive design enables customers to manage and access their archives directly instead of having to engage a Bucap staffer to search for and retrieve documents.
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