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Enterprise Data Archiving Solution for JD Edwards

Posted by davidstech on October 27, 2009

Organizations can mitigate the impact of data growth by running batch reports during downtime, purchasing faster hardware or utilizing the purge functionality. SQL server archiving modular and centralized architecture allows companies to securely manage their archiving processes. There is no need for multiple installations of database tools or application metadata for each server environment.


With health data management solutions, organizations can create and deploy effective and consistent policies for managing, securing and storing data from a single console. The result is improved application performance and availability through smaller production database sizes, shorter backup and recovery times, reduced labor costs to maintain the production system and lower storage costs.

EDMS supports peoplesoft archiving for all modules. It can be integrated with any module in PeopleSoft through EDMS objects that define the most common PeopleSoft business objects. EDMS enables users having functional knowledge to build configurations around related objects in PeopleSoft.


With the help of application archiving organizations can save storage, improve database and reporting performance and lesson the burden on IT resources for data back-up, disaster recovery and cloning. Additionally, under-utilized data can be moved to lower cost Tier-2 storage while seamless data access is maintained.


Jd Edwards database has a long history of delivering ERP systems to mid-market companies, capturing, storing and delivering mission critical information. Over time, the load from millions of financial and operational transactions added to the system daily weighs heavily on the application servers, impacting performance and report response rates.

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Data Privacy for Oracle E-Business Suite

Posted by davidstech on October 27, 2009

Data masking is a proven strategy to obscure specific fields that identify an individual, potentially exposing customers or employees to identity theft or other forms of privacy invasion. Utilizing Oracle data masking to scramble, encrypt, shuffle or otherwise mask names, addresses, credit card numbers, salaries, or social security numbers; privacy is ensured and relational integrity is maintained.


Enterprise data auditing ensures that you are alerted when unusual activity is occurring and keeping a secure and searchable audit log of database changes is critical to maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements as well as ensuring adherence to corporate information governance policies.


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 database archiving for PeopleSoft, organizations can implement policy based schemes for automatically migrating out of Tier 1 production stores into lower cost Tier 2 storage, ensuring application performance, faster back-up and recovery and lower total cost of storage. Test data management helps organizations to achieve faster cloning times through rapid application and database cloning processes.

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Efficient test data management process

Posted by davidstech on July 15, 2009

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. Database masking provides companies with a centralized solution to manage the test data management process for clone creation, productivity and data security.

Application sunsetting and migration tool utilizes an archive engine of enterprise data management instead of traditional ETL tools. This allows faster, seamless, and controlled data migration while implementing information lifecycle management by storing current data on high availability storage tiers, historical data on cheaper storage tiers and the data that is no longer needed to be accessed online, is stored in offline storage such as optical, magnetic, and similar media.

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.

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Secure sensitive data in database

Posted by davidstech on July 15, 2009

Every kind of storage is bound to overflow sometime or the other; it also applies to software industries. Companies that have large storage data, which would also be needed for future trend analysis, reduce retrieval speed. Such companies can opt for data archiving solutions. Data archiving is built on the concept of preserving data through classification and storage, helps in improving throughput.

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. It helps in helps in providing retirement to applications that are on the verge of it. It reduces the number of applications within the organ data auditing.

Data archiving is an efficient solution to enhance application performance through smaller production database sizes, shorter backup and recovery times, reduced labor costs to maintain the production system and lower storage costs.

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Leverage your IT investments

Posted by davidstech on June 25, 2009

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. Database masking provides companies with a centralized solution to manage the test data management process for clone creation, productivity and data security.

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.

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. Enterprise data management application provides companies with a centralized solution to manage the test data management process for clone creation, productivity and data security.

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Improve operational efficiency and manage risk

Posted by davidstech on June 25, 2009

The need for migration of applications in enterprises arises from changes in business demands or technology challenges to improve operational efficiency and to manage risk. Addressing the growing need of enterprise application networks to migrate data across applications, protocols and proprietary data structures, data migration delivers an intelligent enterprise data migration solution that enables seamless data migration across enterprise applications.

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.

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.

Data archiving is an efficient solution to enhance application performance through smaller production database sizes, shorter backup and recovery times, reduced labor costs to maintain the production system and lower storage costs.

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Deploy Consistent and Effective Security Policies

Posted by davidstech on June 11, 2009

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.

Database 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 quarter end. By deploying Enterprise Data Archiving, organizations maintain performance and can reduce the IT burden of large data sets.

Application Sunsetting and Migration solution is a metadata based tool that allows companies to map metadata between applications and create conversion rules for faster and seamless data migration.

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.

Data archiving 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

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Manages multiple applications metadata for all data

Posted by davidstech on June 4, 2009

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 masking provides companies with a centralized solution to manage the test data management process for clone creation, productivity and data security.

Application retirement helps organizations to reduce cost while maintaining access to the data either through the creation of a common data store or by data migration into an existing enterprise application. This helps in operational efficiency and reducing cost.

Test data management is a strategy for organizations to manage their test and development processes to meet application development and testing requirements, streamline cloning processes and secure data so organizations are equipped to deliver the clones needed to meet upgrade and patch cycles and maintain data security.

Data archiving 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

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Mitigate risk by extending security policies

Posted by davidstech on June 4, 2009

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 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.

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Efficient test data management process

Posted by davidstech on May 28, 2009

Most enterprise class business applications require multiple copies be made to support test data management processes such as patch, test, QA, etc. Hence 6-8 full size clones are prepared, thereby potentially exposing sensitive application data. To ensure sensitive data remains protected against the largest source of vulnerability, the internal threat; data management suites allow telecom operators to identify data that meets specific security and retention requirements and automate how the data is protected and managed throughout its entire lifecycle.

Data masking is a proven strategy to obscure specific fields that identify an individual, potentially exposing customers or employees to identity theft or other forms of privacy invasion. Utilizing data privacy Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite to scramble, encrypt, shuffle or otherwise mask names, addresses, credit card numbers, salaries, or social security numbers; privacy is ensured and relational integrity is maintained.

Data archiving ensures database performance is optimized for the business need while creating savings in storage and data maintenance activities. Users of Oracle E-Business Suite, Baan, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle PeopleSoft, Siebel and more benefit a great deal by enterprise data archiving.

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