10 posts tagged with "Long-Term Archiving"

Digital long-term archiving is becoming increasingly important for companies. The reasons are not limited to legal regulations and retention periods. Data and documents are more critical than ever. Secure storage is therefore essential to remain future-ready. In Germany, for example, business documents such as invoices and contracts must be archived for up to ten years. In addition, there are industry-specific retention requirements for documents in public administration, hospitals, construction, and other sectors.

The most important information about the legal regulations​

"Retention period is the period of time within which documents subject to retention must be archived in an orderly manner." That's what Wikipedia says. What are documents subject to retention requirements in the first place and how long must they be archived? In this article, we answer the most important questions about the statutory retention periods for business documents.

Why an ISO standard from 2005 is still future-proof​

Analogue archiving media such as microfilm and paper have long been a thing of the past. Even the image format TIFF, the first digital format, was replaced in the 1990s by a more efficient one, namely the Portable Document Format (PDF) published by Adobe Systems. Based on this, the archive format standard PDF/A was developed, which still plays a decisive role today for long-term archiving as required by law.