Advantages of archiving

The main advantage of archiving policy periods is to improve the operational performance of the application. As PolicyCenter creates more policy periods, database storage requirements increase, table lengths increase, and performance degrades. Archiving can improve performance in the face of unbounded policy period growth.

If you have a legacy system that contains many policy terms, then you can add them to your main database, attach them to accounts, and immediately archive them. In PolicyCenter, you can search for these legacy policy terms and retrieve them from the archive.