Many organizations think of archive as an afterthought or not at all. I’d argue that this is, in fact, a lost opportunity, especially for the life sciences industry.

Archiving data pays dividends down the road in terms of organizational efficiency and particularly productivity. Having a central indexed repository for research data enables researchers to easily know what’s where, making it possible to maximize utility of the data.

Unfortunately, many life sciences organizations don’t have the infrastructure in place to archive effectively. Without a data archive strategy, research organizations end up storing data across different research groups and locations, resulting in confusion and organizational inefficiencies when the data is moved, modified, and used in analysis and computing.

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