Most organizations are facing rapid growth of business information, whether it is either in structured form as records stored in database or it is in unstructured form as files stored on server and desktop personal computers. The business information has a specific life cycle that it goes through which includes the following steps, creating updating, archiving, retaining, and deleting. After some time, the information becomes dormant and may not be needed for day to day business needs. However, for statistical, historical, or regulatory compliance reasons, it may be necessary to retain the information for several years. This necessitates the clean up of dormant information to free up the operational database or file systems space.

i2Archive is web based Archive application that is utilized to remove inactive or less active information from operational (active) database to archive database. It is capable of archiving entire or partial business objects and related data that is either stored in the database or on the file system. The archiving can be performed on a database, a file system or both. It is also capable of archiving information from multiple databases simultaneously. The application allows an administrator to design information retention rules. Once the retention criteria are met, the data is purged. Reloading or reverse archive from archive database and or file system to operation database and or file system can be carried out. The application is designed to recover from power failure or system failure. The scheduling of archive task can be done on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.