Long Term Data Storage

(Available in all extension stages of IQ Software)

APIS IQ-Software offers several possibilities for long time data archiving. Among these are the various export facilities as well as the Presentation Print using a PDF printer driver, and the Web Publisher which produces HTML documents. Both formats can be created automatically using the CSA Web Publisher service of the CARM-Server.

All of these formats can be viewed with third party tools (PDF viewers, web browsers), but it is not possible to automatically reconstruct the internal data model and therefore the interrelations between the data objects (eg. what are the causes of a certain failure?).

Therefore, IQ offers an XML export which integrates all requirements: long term data storage plus the possibility to automatically reconstruct the data model. XML as a simple text format is future proof. So the interpretation of contents should be guaranteed for the foreseeable future. It will be possible to interpret this data even if the provider of the operating system has gone out of business.

Last but not least IQ Software takes benefit from the document centered approach when it comes to archiving the information. Since the documents (extension ".fme") are self contained information units that require no additional IT infrastructure (as, for example, a database system) they can easily be managed by a document management system. Also, any standard backup strategy is supported.