Documents can be partitioned into many discrete collections Documents can be distributed across facilities, countries and even continents while at the same time minimizing network traffic and maximizing accessibility. IFS supports multiple volumes, servers, and sites. The IFS system is an open published architecture. KeyNet provides full documentation on the structure, and a robust set of application API's to control and maintain the repository. Developers can take advantage of KeyNet's many document management tools directly, or use the IFS API to write functionality specific to their applications.
Every system administrator needs to set up and maintain document volumes and sites.
And eventually, everyone needs to move those inactive documents off the system onto a more remote media. This provides a completely flexible model for security, allowing public sets of documents to be made available to all users, while classified, or other business sensitive documents can be placed behind more restricted levels of authentication. Internet access can be secured via standard SSL encryption, and documents accessed from Web browsers are cached to temporary storage before being delivered to the remote user. IFS for the Web Records managers and document archivists have used the IFS Object Repository system since 1991. There are hundreds of millions of documents residing in IFS repositories all over the world.