Syngenta Ensures Compliance With iTernity iCAS and HP Storage

Syngenta Corporation, an agribusiness companies with more than 28,000 employees in some 90 countries, has chosen iTernity iCAS and HP as their compliant archiving infrastructure.

As a publicly-traded company, Syngenta must comply with industry and government regulations, which have strict requirements for financial accountability. Therefore, it must maintain a secure, unalterable archive of important financial statements, human resources records, and other critical business and legal documents. To replace its legacy technology, Syngenta needed an archiving solution that could maintain compliance and provide future-proof integrity protection. It found the solution with iTernity iCAS – a software-defined archiving platform that manages data integrity, retention and privacy needs. It provides a reliable archive solution that ensures compliance with KPMG certification. At Syngenta, the solution is running in combination with HP server and storage infrastructure.

Tjerk Boorsma, IS Strategic supplier manager, Syngenta, says: “We needed a certified archive solution. iCAS holds the highly trusted KPMG certification, which gave us confidence that it would meet our compliance requirements.“

iCAS works in conjunction with HP Records Manager, which manages the archive process from SAP AG, aconso AG, and other applications, and writes data onto the iCAS server. iCAS uses its patented and certified Content Storage Container (CSC) technology to create objects containing both the data and metadata such as retention times. This provides Syngenta with a solution that is flexible and cost efficient. As archive data are no longer tied to a specific storage system they can be migrated to additional or other systems without losing their proof of authenticity. This is saving money and protecting done investments as even existing storage capacity can be used for archiving purposes.

With its flexibility, iCAS extends Syngenta’s archive capacity virtually without limits. iCAS can use several HP storage systems, present them as unified archive space to the applications, and scale up as needed. The HP and iCAS solution also enabled Syngenta to expand its records management archive capabilities beyond SAP and aconso, to include email, documents, and a variety of other legal records.