Optimize application portfolio

Application retirement is a viable strategy for eliminating redundant legacy applications, thereby improving operational efficiency and reducing costs. By reducing the number of applications within the IT infrastructure, DBAs can concentrate on maintaining critical business applications with the highest value to the organization, instead of compiling data from disparate sources.

Application retirement allows organizations to implement data migration projects across applications: Legacy, Mainframe, BaaN, JDE, PeopleSoft, Siebel Oracle, SAP, etc. while allowing changes to chart of accounts, organization structure, costing methods, etc.

Data auditing provides enterprises with the tools to classify data based on its sensitivity, define policies at the database level that determine how that data should be managed, and automatically monitors and logs any changes to application data.

Data that has been relocated after classification is protected from redundant searches or data addition. This helps in maintaining integrity and reduces the strain on database servers. When a quarterly or yearly trend analysis is performed it allows for convenient data purging also. Automation of archiving and purging is available as data archiving solutions. They can be used by multiple projects at the same time and data retrieval is very convenient.

Centralized management of data

Enterprise class business applications require multiple copies be made to support test data management processes such as patch, test, QA, and training. Most companies make 6-8 full size clones for every production application, not only wasting storage and time in cloning but potentially exposing sensitive application data to the test environment.

Data migration is a metadata based tool that allows companies to map metadata between applications and create conversion rules for faster and seamless data migration. It acts as an efficient project accelerator for migrations of any nature.

Data has the right to be protected. Privacy and Integrity are those that make any kind of data unique. To initiate the process of data privacy, there are basic ground rules to be followed. The basic qualification should be the need perceived for data. Vital organization data has to be protected first. On segregating such data, all storages that protect them are to be secured from external access.

Information lifecycle management solutions are designed to help enterprises manage data growth by providing the tools classify, archive and migrate data to improve application performance and reduce administrative overhead and infrastructure costs. Enterprise data management offer streamline information management, security and automate data storage and retrieval to enable compliance and e-Discovery through long term data retention, data masking, database audit and enterprise search.

Data archiving solutions restores application performance up to 50% by relocating inactive data from your production database to a secure online data archive. Database Archiving automates the archive and purge process by offloading underutilized data from the production environment, ensuring good operational performance during heavy load times such as quarter end.

Mask Sensitive Data

Database cloning is a practical solution for the problem of protecting sensitive information that is shared while providing production support for upgrades, patching, testing etc. It has several options for reducing security risk. One such is that it creates clones of databases which would be smaller than the actual one by copying only the required data. It also has an option of creating a template that contains only the required information.

Application retirement allows organizations to implement Data migration projects across applications: Legacy, Mainframe, BaaN, JDE, PeopleSoft, Siebel Oracle, SAP, etc. while allowing changes to chart of accounts, organization structure, costing methods, etc.

Database archiving automates the archive and purge process by offloading underutilized data from the production environment, ensuring good operational performance during heavy load times such as the quarter end. Utilizing database archiving to actively manage the growth of application data is the key to managing data for its value to the organization.

Optimize Application Portfolio

Often many applications, which were yielding good results for the companies, become outmoded when organizations grow, merge or strengthen their operations; since not much attention is paid to maintain these applications. Application retirement is the best solution for doing away with disused applications as they expend a lot of resources, storage etc while benefiting the organization very little.

Enterprise data management offer streamline information management, security and automate data storage and retrieval to enable compliance and e-Discovery through long term data retention, data masking, database audit and enterprise search.

Many corporations depend on Oracle E-Business suite archiving to record and store mission critical information. Over time, the load from millions of transactions added daily to the system weighs heavily on application servers, impacting performance and report response rates.

Securely Manage Test Data and Development Processes

Database cloning creates a database template and restores or inserts only the transactions or modules needed. The Insert Method for database cloning allows IT organizations to create subsets much faster as only the data needed for the test is cloned, resulting in a faster cloning process and reduced storage requirement. Whichever subset method is used, referential integrity is maintained. Database cloning is therefore very helpful in protecting data in less secure environments.

Data migration is a metadata based tool that allows companies to map metadata between applications and create conversion rules for faster and seamless data migration. It acts as an efficient project accelerator for migrations of any nature.

Using database archiving reduces overall storage costs while maintaining access through the native application. This provides a complete solution for all enterprise data archiving needs. Most experts conclude up to 80% of production data is no longer mission critical.

Benefits of the Enterprise Data Archiving Solution

Organizations can mitigate the impact of data growth by running batch reports during downtimes, purchasing faster hardware or purge data from the application. None of these strategies fully address the reality of application growth coupled with the need for long term data retention. Data archiving solutions automates the archive and purge process by offloading underutilized data from the production environment, ensuring good operational performance during heavy load times such as the quarter end.

Data archiving solutions helps in reinstating the application’s performance to 50% by archiving inactive data. It enables in improving and reducing storage and IT costs. Users of Oracle E-Business Suite, Baan, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle PeopleSoft, Siebel and more benefit a great deal by data archiving solutions.

Data Archiving for Best Practice

Enterprise Applications are the lifeblood on any organization but relentless data growth coupled with the legal and regulatory requirements to save data are impacting application performance and straining IT resources. Solix database archiving ensures database performance is optimized for the business need while creating savings in storage and data maintenance activities. Using Solix, relational integrity is assured and data access is guaranteed. Users of Oracle E-Business Suite, Baan, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle PeopleSoft, Siebel and more benefit a great deal by enterprise data archiving.

Data Masking to Protect Data from getting into the Wrong Hands

Organizations share their confidential information such as employee details, customer details, and financial details etc. to their developers while providing production support for patches, training, outsourcing etc. But when these database applications are copied there is an increased risk of this data getting into the wrong hands.

With Solix Secure Test Development organizations have several options to protect the data in less secure environments. One method is copying only the required information or data thus securing the data before it is shared with the developers. Thus, Data Masking protects sensitive data, reduces development time and storage space.

Enterprise Data Archiving for Performance and Storage Optimization

The main reason that slows down the application and thereby company’s performance is the large amount of inactive data. Enterprise Data Archiving solves this issue by archiving almost 80% of the inactive data from the production environment to a secure online data archive. By doing so it restores the application’s performance by 50%. The result is more stable production environment and higher productivity.

Since Solix Enterprise Data Archiving stores data in the less expensive Tier 2 Storage system, organizations can cut down storage costs as they need not buy large data sets. Solix provides Enterprise Data Archiving for Oracle JD Edwards, Baan, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Oracle E-Business Suite.

Application Archiving to Improve Performance, Reduce Storage & IT Costs

With Application Archiving organizations can relieve themselves from the problem of purchasing faster software, purging inactive data or creating additional partitions as a solution for not being able to retain data for a long period of time in the database. It has its own strategies for managing, securing and storing data. The result is increased performance of the application.

Solix’s Enterprise Application Archiving not only improves the performance of the application but also brings down the storage and IT costs. As the organizations require only a small amount of the database, they need not spend on resources to maintain the production system thereby reducing labor and storage costs. Oracle JD Edwards, Baan, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Oracle E-Business Suite can perform better with Application Archiving.