Webinar 🖥️ Modern Archiving for Life Sciences Enterprises: A Case Study

IT and Operations teams that complete digital transformation programs often face a familiar question: what happens if they decide to leave some records or documents behind? Our clients sometimes run multi-year initiatives to move onto new, best-of-breed platforms. But they may not want to bring every document or decade’s worth of data with them. Still, compliance requirements mean that historical content can’t simply be ignored. So then what? Keep the old systems running? Pay a small team to maintain them?

In today’s competitive environment, these challenges aren’t just operational, they can create a real strategic disadvantage. Let’s look at the most common pain points we hear from clients and partners.

Technical and Operational Challenges

Rising Infrastructure Costs
Maintaining outdated systems and on-premise architectures drives up costs. Hardware upkeep, security patching licensing, and support all add up, making it difficult for organizations to scale efficiently.

System Complexity and Maintenance Overhead
Years of customizations, patches, and integrations often leave legacy platforms fragile. Specialized skills are required to keep them running, but those skills are harder to find as IT professionals gravitate toward modern technologies.

Data Silos and Inconsistent Metadata
Mergers, acquisitions, and department-level repositories often leave organizations with fragmented archives. This leads to inconsistent metadata and taxonomies, reducing visibility and slowing access to critical records.

Compliance and Risk Management Challenges

Audit and Inspection Readiness
Regulators expect rapid, accurate access to historical documents. Legacy systems, with clunky user interfaces and inconsistent metadata, make it difficult to retrieve information quickly during audits or inspections.

Validation Burden
Maintaining compliance requires frequent re-validation of legacy platforms. However, even minor patches or upgrades can trigger new rounds of validation driving up costs and eating up time.

Security Vulnerabilities
Outdated platforms often lack modern safeguards such as role-based access controls, real-time monitoring, or advanced encryption. This leaves sensitive records exposed to potential breaches.

The Bottom Line

IT and Operations leaders are being pulled in all directions: rising infrastructure costs, growing compliance demands, user frustration, and leadership pushing for innovation and AI adoption.

But there is a path forward. Modern archiving strategies allow organizations to move to new platforms without dragging along every last document, while still ensuring compliance, security, and accessibility.

Case Study: fme Modernizes Archiving for Life Sciences Firm

Does this sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone, and there are clear paths forward. There are practical strategies to break free from legacy systems and move toward scalable, secure, and compliant information management.

Early in 2025, one of our global pharma clients faced this exact situation. They decided it was time to retire their costly legacy systems and replace them with a modern archiving solution that could meet today’s business and regulatory requirements.

They turned to fme Life Sciences for our decades of experience in content migrations and our deep understanding of Life Sciences business requirements. Together with our partner Generis, we combined the flexibility of the CARA Platform with the power of fme migration-center to provide a scalable, cost-efficient archiving solution that not only addressed immediate challenges but also laid a strong foundation for future AI-enabled capabilities.

View the Recording to Learn More

If you are struggling with similar challenges with the costs and barriers of legacy systems, view the recording for Modern Archiving for Life Sciences Enterprises: A Case Study to learn more about this distinctive solution. fme’s president Frank D’Entrone and Generis’ Rex Harrison will be sharing details on the project, as well as how the combination of fme and Generis solutions enabled the client to not only achieve immediate goals, but established a strong foundation for future capabilities.

Why Watch This Webinar?

In this session, you’ll learn:

• • How to eliminate excessive legacy system maintenance costs and integration complexity
  • Planning process and significant benefits of fme’s custom-built archiving tool leveraging Generis CARA and fme’s migration-center
  • An introduction to CARA’s AI-powered capabilities for search and content interaction
  • How the strategic partnership between fme and Generis benefits our clients

Webinar Details

🖥️ Title: Modern Archiving for Life Sciences Enterprises: A Case Study

📅 Date: Recorded Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Who Should Attend?

• • IT Leadership (CIOs, IT Directors, Architects)
  • Regulatory & Quality leaders
  • Records, Information Management and Data Integrity professionals
  • Digital Transformation / Business Systems Owners
  • Migration & Compliance IT teams

If your teams are weighed down by the costs and risks of legacy archiving systems, this is your opportunity to learn how to modernize with confidence, especially if you have implemented or are considering modern solutions within other departments.

👉 View the recording today and be ready to learn efficient and cost-effective archiving with modern solutions.