Hi,
We have a particular business requirement, in which large number of documents will be generated on daily basis, and these need to be stored for a relative longer period of time, around 7 years. Which tool can we use to integrate with Appian for storing the generated documents. Please suggest.
Regards,
Chetana
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Depends on the requirements but you would need some sort of enterprise document management system. (Sharepoint, Box, OpenText ECM, IBM FileNet etc)
I would assume that the company you are building an app for already has a solution for this. You would just need to plug into it. If not, what would be the issue of storing these documents inside Appian?
Thank you for your response Mathieu.
The company is open to any storage solution, as long as I am not using sftp, Let me explore the options you have suggested above.
And regarding the storing of docs in Appian, 7 year would be a huge period of time, and eventually huge data files would be created. Do you think its advisable to store in Appian itself? Will it not be a burden on the server? please confirm.
Depends on how many files we are talking about but choosing (and implementing) an ECM is not a small task. I would strongly advise against it if there is no existing solution within the organization for document management.
Storing documents for such an extended period is typically required by laws and regulations. And for such a use case, I would use a ECM system that is made to support these requirements. And, additional disk space in Appian cloud is not cheap.
I should have mentioned it earlier that our Appian is OnPrem setup, so it runs on our Linux servers maintained by our infra team.
Yeah, but who guarantees that documents are not modified? An ECM is what you might want.