Solix EDMS Application Retirement

Retire Legacy Database Applications

Save Costs by Moving Data to Long Term Archives

Define Policies for Data Migration and Application Retirement

As Enterprises implement newer applications that run on more up-to-date technology and while
the existing systems of record are kept online to meet data retention policies, over time, these
systems become known as “legacy”, consuming significant time, money and resources in data
centers. In many cases, the information stored there is rarely accessed and while the system
Overview
ages, finding resources with the skills to maintain those systems becomes more difficult.

Introducing Solix EDMS for Application Retirement Solix EDMS for Application Retirement
helps customers meet the long term
Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS) for Application Retirement enables companies
data retention needs of regulatory
to migrate data that needs to be retained to online active archives while sunsetting legacy data
compliance by archiving most
and applications. Retiring these systems can significantly free up resources while maintaining
historical transactions from their
access to only that data that needs to be maintained. This eliminates risk of falling out of
database applications to online or
compliance.
offline archives. Using Solix EDMS
Solix EDMS for Application Retirement offers options for how data is migrated giving customers with integrated archive platforms,
the ultimate flexibility in a single tool. Depending on the end user access requirements, Solix customers have the ability to aggregate
EDMS for Application Retirement provides the ability to define the data retention policy at content silos for meeting governance
the application level, select and then migrate the data to a target archive such as an archive policies and lowering regulatory costs.
database, archive file and integrated archive storage or software platforms and also provides
comprehensive reporting capabilities on the archived data. Integrated Solution Features

Solix View Builder • Archives structured and

A web-based tool, which allows creating business views on the base tables with business unstructured data
friendly context names for table names and column names. The tool automatically creates
• Archives and Reports on the data
view definations (DDL). These views will be created on the migrated database for reporting
with metadata
purposes.

Solix Report Builder • Migrates active data to online

systems
Allows end-users to build complex reports and represent them visually. It also generates SQL
queries based on visual representation. End user reports can be built quickly and easily using • Available on a range of platforms
this reporting tool based on the views generated from the Solix View Builder and configurations
Benefits
• Single installation of Solix EDMS
• Reduces system and resource costs allocated to legacy systems can manage retiring hundreds of
• Simplifies managing and enforcing legacy data retention policies legacy applications
• Provides comprehensive reporting capabilities on archived data
• Meets legal & compliance requirements - ensuring archived data cannot be modified
• Reduces legal discovery risks & costs

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 Solix EDMS Application Retirement

Solix EDMS
Application
Retirement
Custom Reports

Data
Legacy
Application Reports Business Reference
Views Database
On-Demand
Application
Retirement
Services
Options: XML or RDBMS of choice
BI Tool (or)
Oracle Universal Online Archive
Solix Reporting Tool
Content Addressable Storage like HCAP

Solix EDMS Supported Archive Platforms

• RDBMS
Supported Operating Systems
Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, Informix and databases with a JDBC driver

• Archive files • HP-UX • z/OS

CSV, XML
• IBM AIX • i5/OS (OS/400)
• Archive Storage (Content Addressable Storage)
• Sun Solaris • Windows
HDS HCAP, IBM DR550, EMC Centera
• Linux
• Secure Archive Software Platform
Oracle Universal Online Archive

About Solix EDMS

Solix EDMS provides the data management framework for multiple enterprise applications and Supported Applications
databases including:
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Database archiving - creates and deploys consistent policies for classifying,
multi-tiering, and managing archived data from a single archive policy console. • PeopleSoft

• Secure Test and Development - provides database cloning, subsetting and data • JD Edwards
masking functions to allow organizations to protect data in non-production
• Siebel
environments while reducing infrastructure costs and improving development
cycles. • BaaN

• Data Auditing – ensures compliance by actively monitoring who is accessing the • Custom Applications
database and where copies are being made; combined with subsetting and data
masking, internal breach of sensitive data is virtually eliminated.

• Application Retiring and Data Migration - enables long term data retention in
events of technology consolidation or business mergers and de-mergers

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