Automated Cloning

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It is a common fact that most database applications store company’s confidential details such as employee information, client information, company’s financial details etc. Most often these details need to be shared with developers and others while providing production support for upgrades, training, outsourcing etc. As a result there is a great risk of this data being used for unlawful activities. Creating data masking is a labor intensive and manual process where servers, applications and storage devices are configured for each new clone, an inefficient process for a routine data center activity. By automating the cloning and post-cloning processes, clones are created and configured faster and with fewer errors.

Most experts conclude up to 80% of production data is no longer mission critical; using data archiving reduces overall storage costs while maintaining access through the native application. Relocate 50% of the inactive data from your production database to a secure online data archive.

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 Management Solutions

Data privacy allows the organization to share data while maintaining confidentiality and integrity. Control Management and Configuration Management are key players here. Necessary access controls, password management, version control and track changes are vital in protecting data privacy. Software organizations that follow CMM or ISO have inbuilt control and configuration processes in them. With or without processes, data privacy must be handled with care and concern for customer satisfaction.

Data privacy protection in non-production environments is an important step in the IT governance chain that will keep your sensitive data private and your corporate reputation intact.

Application sunsetting and migration tool utilizes an archive engine of enterprise data management suite 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 Masking Reduces Risk of Privacy Violations

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 privacy protection manages multiple applications metadata for all data types independent of the hardware platforms through a unified policy manager. Data privacy allows the organization to share data while maintaining confidentiality and integrity. Control Management and Configuration Management are key players here. Necessary access controls, password management, version control and track changes are vital in protecting data privacy.

Viable Strategy for Eliminating Redundant Legacy Applications

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.

With e-Business suite archiving 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.

Ensuring Data Security through Masking

Many organizations have tried alternative approaches to archiving, such as running batch reports during downtime, purchasing faster hardware or purging data by completely removing data from access. None of these strategies fully address the challenges of database growth and the need for long term data retention. 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.

Data masking provides companies with a centralized solution to manage the test data management process for clone creation, productivity and data security. As a result, there is a great risk of this data being used for unlawful activities. Data masking helps in protecting data in less secure environments.

Data archiving solutions enables in improving and reducing storage and IT costs. Enterprise database archiving restores application performance by up to 50% by relocating inactive data from the production database to a secure online data archive.

Data Management for Compliance and Information Lifecycle Management

It is a common fact that most database applications store company’s confidential details such as employee information, client information, company’s financial details etc. Most often these details need to be shared with developers and others while providing production support for upgrades, training, outsourcing etc. As a result, there is a great risk of this data being used for unlawful activities. Data Masking helps in protecting data in less secure environments.

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

Application Migrations

Application retirement is a growing reality for many organizations as they grow, merge or otherwise consolidate operations. The number of enterprise systems that IT departments support continues to grow. Applications that are candidates for retirement consume computing resources, storage, and manpower to maintain yet provide very little business benefit to the organization.

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.

Easy Cloning Tool

Database cloning 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.

Database cloning allows companies to securely manage test data and development processes with a single tool.  There is no need for multiple installations of database tools for each server environment. This helps organizations to achieve faster cloning times through rapid application and database cloning processes.

Retire Legacy Application

Applications that are candidates for retirement consume computing resources, storage, and manpower to maintain yet provide very little business benefit to the organization. Often, applications that support hundreds of users at rollout are later used by very few.  While the majority of IT budgets support existing applications, very little attention is typically paid to the total cost of maintaining an application.

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.

Information Life Cycle Management

As data volumes grow in mission critical databases, business agility is impacted as application performance deteriorates. Regulatory compliance, the business value of data and potential data security threats are requiring enterprises to evaluate their data management strategies and implement solutions that solve today’s data management challenges.

As the value of data to the business changes over time, proactively implementing an information lifecycle strategy can address these challenges, mitigating risk, lowering TCO and improving business performance. Enterprise data management provides the solution for managing your data holistically accounting for compliance, cost, and security. With quantifiable improvement across the enterprise, gain risk reduction, improved performance, lower costs and improve operational efficiencies.

With E-Business suite archiving solution for Oracle Applications, 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.