IBM Solution Manages Database Growth

fact sheet Vendor: IBM Corporation (www.ibm.com) Vendor's Information: About IBM Optim Data Growth Solution About IBM vendor resources Anatomy of a PeopleSoft Enterprise Archiving Project Business-critical ERP applications, such as PeopleSoft Enterprise, represent an ongoing corporate investment, empowering new business initiatives, supporting daily operations and driving revenue generation. They also collect and accumulate a wealth of business information a valuable asset that must be managed and preserved throughout its lifecycle. Companies worldwide are affirming the value of database archiving as a best practice for managing application data growth. The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organizations requirements. Anatomy of a Siebel CRM Archiving Project Business-critical CRM applications, such as Siebel® CRM, represent an ongoing corporate investment, empowering new business initiatives, supporting daily operations and driving revenue generation. They also collect and accumulate a wealth of business information a valuable asset that must be managed and preserved throughout its lifecycle. Companies worldwide are affirming the value of database archiving as a best practice for managing application data growth. The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organizations requirements.

IBM's Optim Data Growth Solution helps enterprises streamline their operations and reduce risk by managing enterprise application data and enabling the development of an enterprise-wide data management strategy.

Overgrown databases are reducing the efficiency and performance of ERP, CRM and custom applications that collect information from various sources and turn it into data that helps users run their businesses. Vast amounts of data increase risk and storage and management costs and add complexity.

Forrester Consulting, in a study conducted on behalf of IBM, had this to say about the state of comprehensive data management strategies: "These issues call for a more comprehensive, coordinated, and planful approach to the full data lifecycle: design, develop, deploy, operate, and archive or retire. Like other maturing aspects of IT, a more effective, end-to-end data management regime will be more efficient, more agile, less risky, and less costly. Enterprises need to take a closer look at their data management strategy and plan to drive improvements into this neglected corner of their organizations."

Proven Strategies for Archiving Complex Relational Data Database growth, long-term data retention regulations and storage requirements increase operational costs. Yet, archiving complex relational data poses many challenges. Optim Data Growth Solution provides proven technology and comprehensive capabilities that make archiving complex relational data practical and desirable.

How does this data grow so quickly? Much of the data growth that threatens mission-critical enterprise applications is organic. As part of doing business, you collect more data from your customers and suppliers and it begins to add up. Mergers and acquisitions are also responsible for data growth because data is acquired along with organizations and applications. The "data multiplier effect" that occurs when data is duplicated for backups, business continuity, and disaster recovery creates even more data. Industry and government regulatory and compliance rules result in the storage of more data.

The value of much of this data decreases over time. That's where the IBM Optim Data Growth Solution can help. The solution archives historical transaction records, segregating it from current data and storing it securely and cost-effectively.

Having less information in your production database leads to several advantages. Storage costs are decreased because less disk space is required. With less information to sift through, applications are faster and more efficient. The business value of your information is increased and your operations run more smoothly.

For data governed by data retention policies, Optim lets users apply functional policies that govern retention. Automated data retention helps users respond quickly to electronic discovery and compliance requests.

The IBM Optim Data Growth Solution is available in versions that support the most popular enterprise applications, including AmdocsCRM, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel CRM, z/OS, and custom and packaged applications.

The Optim portfolio of products helps businesses manage application data with greater consistency across the enterprise. The products in the portfolio are part of IBM's Integrated Data Management software initiative.

Optim products help users manage data seamlessly across each phase of the information lifecycle, from requirements through to retirement, to align with their business goals. They use a foundation of shared information that allows teams to develop and deploy enterprise-ready applications faster, with better performance, while mitigating governance risks.

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