hanzo:archives, the web archiving company

Corporations, government agencies and other institutions are increasingly relying on web technology. They use it to publish key information, to support communication and to support collaborative working, using websites, extranets, intranets, blogs, wikis, customer forums, etc.

Maintaining these important assets over long periods of time is extremely difficult, expensive, often technology or vendor specific, and can become burdensome to those tasked with maintaining these assets. Consider situations in which multiple content management systems (CMSs) and publishing technologies are involved, and when CMS migrations have taken place, the ability to maintain access to legacy content using traditional backups of databases and servers becomes a challenging and risky option. Backups are often generated through the CMS, building in vendor/technology dependence. CMS vendors web archiving products suffer from similar dependencies and problems.

The key issue is that to restore web-based content from such a complex and heterogeneous environment will require the organisation to maintain multiple original CMSs, databases and template technologies, as well as keeping them licensed and operational during the entire period of archive retention.

This is very difficult practically and most expensive. To enable accessible web-based information for extended periods of time, a different approach is required

Web Archiving Technology

Web archiving is a relatively new field, commonly used by national libraries around the world for collecting web publications on a very large scale. The technology was initially based on search engines and web crawlers and over the last 5-7 years it has progressed rapidly, developing its own specific technology. Hanzo brings the best of this evolution with the first commercial product that enables archiving of any type of web-published information, independent of the underlying publishing system and template technology used to publish the information.

Hanzo's range of tools and services enable you to archive your intranet, website, wiki and blogs - your total web presence - and preserve the content in a secure, searchable and browsable archive. The archive will be accessible, searchable and browsable at any time, using a just a web browser. It does not require backup restores, CMS's, templates or databases to be restored. Using Hanzo tools, you will be able to archive every item of data ever published by your institution and retain it for as long as is required, always accessible.

CMS migration without pain

Within an extended Web content life-cycle, CMS upgrades and migrations can be extremely disruptive and costly. In the majority of cases, upgrades and migrations require a choice between ceasing support for access to legacy content; planning for and engaging in complex and expensive migration processes; or maintaining multiple CMSs running in parallel.

With Hanzo Enterprise, it is now possible to archive and preserve content as it is published, and make it accessible without migration and without maintenance of legacy CMSs. Hanzo lets you enable document accessibility based on business rules rather than technical constraints imposed by CMSs. This benefit alone can save a large percentage of the total costs of CMS migration projects.

The value of the corporation’s Web content is thereby guaranteed through the entire document lifecycle, and ceasing access to content becomes a business decision, not a technology or budget constraint.

An active enterprise memory

Continuous and often rapid change in information technology make it difficult to maintain continuous access to corporate memory, even during the active period of a document’s lifecycle. Licensing and maintenance costs involved in sustaining a corporation's digital memory keep increasing.

Hanzo Enterprise is the one solution that can archive and provide access to any type of Web-published content. It guarantees easy access, provides advanced search functionality across systems and time, and provides life-cycle management capabilities to ensure that enterprise memory is sustainable.