Expunge Management

Overview

The total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally is forecast to increase rapidly, reaching 180 zettabytes in 2025. Keeping inactive or old data in the application consumes more file storage space, requires more resources to keep up the system performance - memory and computing capacity from the database - and complicates the database backup and maintenance. All of these might result in application performance deterioration over time and unnecessary expensive hardware upgrades.

To prevent a scenario of application performance deterioration, one should monitor the application performance and database growth periodically and the "Expunge Management" utility built on the Appian Low-Code Platform provides the benefits of having a purging strategy which can improve runtime performance and cost savings. It should be considered for entities with evident high-growth rate, which can quickly achieve considerable volumes of data.

Key Features & Functionality

Plan your case archiving process so that it is optimally efficient and meets the needs of your organization's database size. Both periodic and manual Purging of Data through Process Management and Entity can be easily accomplished
Instant view on Archival Logs summary report about the completion of tasks for jobs that ran during expunge processes.
Pre-defined data retention policies can be created to permanently delete the records in database using Appian.

Routine archiving of case data according to your business objectives for retention policies provides many benefits, including:

Reduced operating costs
Improved database performance
Simplified database management

Note: Data Archival/Purging will be always at owners’ discretion. Recommended to discuss with SMEs for a better understanding on Application & DB concepts before performing any purging/archiving process.