Platform 3 SolutionsEnterprise Data Archival Takes Center Stage at Gartner Conference, Showcasing Archon Suite’s Strategic Advantage
Mumbai, India – June 2025:
At this year’s Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, enterprise leaders and technical experts converged at the Platform 3 Solutions booth to tackle a growing challenge: maximizing the value of historical data while efficiently decommissioning legacy systems.
The booth buzzed with high‑level conversations on data governance, security, and intelligent archival, underscoring Archon’s rising prominence in today’s data‑driven world.
Attending from Platform 3 were Karkavel M Jagadeeshan (CTO and Co-Founder), Evelyn Immanuel (Head of Marketing), Rasika Kutralam (Marketing Executive), Tamil Thendral and Vigneshkumar Gurusamy (Regional Sales Manager), Thilak Saravannan (Software Engineer), Harsha Kotha RajendraPrasad (AVP).
Data Governance & Security Dominate Booth Conversations
Visitors repeatedly highlighted regulatory compliance and data security as top priorities.
“Data governance was clearly top-of-mind. We had several in-depth discussions around regulations, PII management, and even defensible deletion,” Rasika recalled. “When we showed them the embedded compliance logic and our zero-trust storage model, they really started leaning in.”
And it wasn’t just surface-level interest. In many conversations, visitors asked about how Platform 3 implements policy enforcement across petabytes of data, how it manages legal holds, and how data classification actually works in practice. Platform 3 team walked clients through architecture specifics, talking about everything from metadata lineage to real-time purge workflows.
The platform 3’s messaging around “data bunker architecture” struck a chord with decision-makers. Archon Suite’s vault-like archival design stands out for its ability to deliver compliance without compromise, especially in highly regulated sectors like energy, banking, and pharmaceuticals.
“People would literally point at our wall that said, ‘Data Bunker’ and ask what it meant,” Rasika noted. “That became a great entry point to talk about our air-gapped storage, encryption models, and tamper-proof retention.”
One of the most engaging conversations came from the retail sector, where data volumes and sensitivities—run high. “One attendee was particularly interested in how we help manage customer information in legacy systems,” Rasika said. “They were trying to solve for both accessibility and security. Our solution was a great fit.”
Looking back, Rasika believes the strongest signal from the event was this: while many enterprises are chasing modern platforms, they haven’t yet found a modern way to govern what they already have.
“It’s easy to sell a new system. But most organizations are still sitting on years of data: old, messy, sensitive. That’s the harder problem. That’s where we come in.”
Evelyn Immanuel echoed these concerns, explaining attendees from healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors wrestled with historical data quality.
“Archival is becoming core to long-term analytics,” said Evelyn Immanuel, who engaged with SI partners and pharma clients. “They’re asking how to make archived data analytics-ready and compliant without throwing everything into a data lake and hoping it works.”
A few queries were focused on on‑premise storage support, ETL accessibility, and the rise of AI-readiness as businesses feed archived data into their LLM and predictive models.
Application Decommissioning & Archival Use Cases Fuel Interest
Beyond the booth, Archon’s intelligent archival and automation capabilities resonated with leaders facing end-of-life decisions on platforms like SAP ECC, Oracle, and older ERPs.
From over 70+ prospect interactions at our booth, a clear trend emerged — more than 60% of the organizations are either active in migration or early planning phases for decommissioning legacy systems.
ERP and legacy databases (particularly Oracle and DB2) were most commonly cited for replacement, with HR/payroll and CRM platforms close behind.
But it wasn’t just about what systems were being retired. The real pressure points came from what followed.
“Data quality” topped the list of daily challenges. Visitors from industries like manufacturing, finance, and healthcare voiced concerns around poor historical data integrity, lack of lineage, and regulatory readiness. One respondent from a pharma major noted, “Without metadata and context, our archive is just dead weight.”
“It was a great validation of our live archiving and metadata tagging capabilities,” said Rasika.
Multiple team members shared that application decommissioning was the star of discussions, especially paired with enterprise data archival in regulated industries. Tamil Thendral remarked that visitors struggled with legacy systems performance, infrastructure costs, and persistent audit-readiness concerns.
“What stood out to people was our ability to phase out legacy apps without losing access or governance,” noted Tamil. “It’s not just data storage. It’s compliant, searchable, and future-ready.”
Vignesh Gurusamy noted strong traction from banking, manufacturing, and healthcare professionals seeking comprehensive archival-plus-decommissioning solutions. Many hadn’t previously sought archival tools—until conversations about underlying data challenges shifted their thinking.
“For many, this was their first time seeing archival done as a full-stack approach,” said Vignesh. “We heard from folks in BFSI and pharma who said this is exactly what their cloud modernization teams are missing.”
Industry-Wide Appeal & Engaged Personas
The Platform 3 booth captivated a range of industries:
- Banking & Financial Services
- Manufacturing & Automotive
- Healthcare & Pharma
- FMCG & Consumer Goods
- Insurance & Legal firms
Archon Suite: User-Friendly, Intelligent, Enterprise-Grade
Attendees praised the Archon Suite’s intuitive interface, flexible deployment (cloud/on-prem/hybrid), and robust integration capabilities, noted Tamil. Recurring feature inquiries included:
- Granular data retrieval
- Compliance mapping
- RBAC controls
- Storage tiering and retention/purge policies
- Legacy ETL compatibility
Evelyn highlighted Archon Data Store (ADS) as a standout, with automated data classification, policy-driven compliance, and hands‑free operations, eliminating much manual governance overhead.
Emerging Trends: Data-as-a-Product & AI Readiness
A noticeable industry shift was observed—the rising concept of data-as-a-product. Enterprises are prioritizing accessibility, value realization, and governance, not just cost‑efficient storage.
“Partners are no longer just asking how to store data. They’re asking how to train models on it,” Evelyn noted. “Archival has gone from ‘nice to have’ to ‘mission critical’ in AI roadmaps.”
Evelyn noted a surge in SI partner-driven archival initiatives, driven by the need for structured data archives to fuel AI and LLM projects.
Pharma giants and telecom firms are now eyeing real‑time analytics on historical data, and OSS/BSS app decommissioning roadmaps.
Strong Lead Pipeline: Demos, POCs & Strategic Partnerships
Lead tracking at the event revealed a robust pipeline of demo requests and partnership inquiries.
- SAP ECC-to-HANA architects gearing up for 20+ TB data retention
- System-integrator partners seeking ADS integration
- Power BI/Azure Synapse analytics teams
“We had 60+ conversations over two days,” Rasika said. “People weren’t just window shopping. They were genuinely looking for solutions. And we were ready.”
Over 25 demo slots are now scheduled for late June–July, with multiple POC and partnership discussions underway including opportunities with global steel, pharma, BFSI, and retail leaders.
This year’s summit also marked strong interest from system integrators looking to partner with Platform 3. Many SIs noted rising demand for archival solutions in their RFPs, especially as clients move to cloud or restructure SAP environments.
Rasika emphasized: “SI partners are realizing that decommissioning and archival are no longer back-office cleanup tasks. They’re essential for modernization and compliance; and we’re ready to co-create with them.”
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The Platform 3 booth also featured a spin-the-wheel challenge, a surprise raffle giveaway, treasure hunt and live demos of Archon in action.
“As data volumes surge, we’re proud to be the team enterprises trust to bring structure, security, and strategy to their most complex systems,” added Rasika.
For organizations looking to reduce legacy costs, enhance data governance, and stay AI-ready, Platform 3’s Archon Suite continues to emerge as a top-tier solution.
Karkavel’s Session Inspires Post-Event Engagement
A major highlight was the speaker session by Karkavel Jegadeesan, CTO and Founder of Platform 3, titled “Intelligent Archiving: The Foundation of Enterprise Data Governance.”
The session saw strong turnout for a mixed audience of C-level and tech experts and sparked active discussions on how legacy data, when archived the right way, can become a strategic asset.
His central message resonated: “Decommissioning is not just about shutting down systems—it’s about unlocking value from historical data while reducing risk and cost.”
“You don’t just store history—you operationalize it,” Karkavel emphasized. “Archival, if done right, becomes the single source of truth for compliance, analytics, and continuity.”
Karkavel’s emphasis on phased execution, compliance-first archival, and audit-ready retrieval led to a flood of booth traffic and deep follow-up discussions, particularly from global FMCG players and telecom CTOs.
He introduced Archon Data Store as a modern, metadata-centric archive that can:
- Ingest structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Classify and tag data automatically for retention, legal hold, or purge
- Act as the foundation for compliant AI pipelines and cost-effective storage tiering
Harsha Kotha followed the session with two powerful use cases, including one where Archon saved $1.8 million per year and improved data processing speed by over 70% by replacing a legacy content system with high-integrity archives.
Archon Suite: Leading the Next Wave of Intelligent Archival
Archon is setting a new industry standard for end-to-end data lifecycle management, backed by compliance-first architecture, AI-prep capabilities, and real-world scalability. In a world transitioning from legacy to intelligence, Archon is positioned as the archive architects who do more than preserve data; they empower insights.
About Platform 3 Solutions
Platform 3 Solutions is a global leader in application decommissioning, legacy modernization, and intelligent data archiving. Its flagship offering, Archon, helps enterprises reduce IT spend, meet compliance, and unlock the value of historical data — all from a single platform.
To learn more, visit: platform3solutions.com
Event at a Glance
- Regulatory compliance, AI-readiness, and rising storage costs emerged as top challenges across industries
- Archival strategy is being actively revisited due to increasing demand for data accessibility and defensibility
- Intelligent archiving was positioned not just as a storage solution, but as a foundation for governance, decommissioning, and AI-driven analytics
Platform 3 Solutions is a global leader in end-to-end legacy application migration and retirement solutions. Platform 3 empowers secure and seamless transitions of data and applications, eliminates technology debt, and delivers the ROI to invest in technology modernization.
