 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Maximize Oracle E-Business Suite Performance by Archiving Historical Data David K. Glomski Sr. Consultant

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Agenda  Who are we?  Addressing the Problem  Product Overview

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Corporate Summary  Founded in 1989  Over 2000 customers in 30 Countries  Committed to providing enterprise database archiving and test data management solutions  Reputation of high quality and reliable products  Partners with industry leading database and storage solution providers –.  Recognized by Gartner, Giga, and Meta as database archiving market leader

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Database Growth Impacts IT Budgets 40% CAGR may be a conservative estimate! “With growth rates exceeding 125%, organizations face two basic options: continue to grow the infrastructure or develop processes to separate dormant data from active data.” Source: Meta Group 2003 “…databases will grow 30x during the next decade, or roughly 40% annually.” Source: Meta Group 2001

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Related Symptoms  Application users complain their system is “slow” to: –Perform online account inquiries and financial period closeouts –Enter transactions and process payments –Post batches and generate reports –Process weekly/monthly/quarterly depreciation runs  Increasing operating costs –Higher hardware and software license and support costs –Longer development and test cycles –Labor intensive time and effort for system administrative tasks –Extended maintenance times for managing backup, recovery and cloning processes –Additional headcount required to adequately manage a larger environment

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Traditional Approaches  Add More Capacity –Bottom line impact –Uncontrolled continuous cost  Institute rigorous database tuning –Does not directly address data growth –Reaches point of diminishing returns  Delete Data (i.e. Purge) –Legal and retention issues –Data may be needed for data warehousing  In-House Development –Complex undertaking –Application specific –Support / upgrade / maintenance / opportunity cost

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Data will continue to Grow Oracle Applications 5 Years (GB)6 Years (GB)7 Years (GB) Entire Database Financials Modules Accounts Payable General Ledger Accounts Receivable Other Modules

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Active Archive is the Solution Data Access (locate, browse, query, report) Production Database Archive Database Archive Files Archive Files  Reduce amount of data in the application database –Remove obsolete or infrequently used data –Maintain “business context” of archived data –Archive relational subsets vs. entire files  Enable easy user access to archived information –View, research and restore as needed.  Support Data & Storage Management Strategies Archive & Restore

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Current Data 1+ years Active Historical 2-3 years (*) Adjust timeframes to meet retention time requirements Non DBMS Retention Platform ATA File Server Centera Off-line Retention Platform CD Tape Optical Archive File Management Production Database Archive Reporting Database Archive On-line Archive 4-7 years Off-line Archive 8+ years Supports ILM Archiving Strategy Information Lifecycle Management

 PrincetonSoftech 2004  Defer or eliminate expensive upgrades  Store data on most cost-effective medium  Reduce costs of DR by recovering mission-critical data first and rarely used data later  Reduced maintenance costs Reduced Costs:  Transparent end-user access Easy Access to Data:  Increased response time  Shorten batch cycles  Increased productivity  Maintain SLA’s Improved Performance: Archiving Value Proposition

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Princeton Softech Provides the Tools Oracle SQL Server SybaseInformix DB2 UDB DB2 Legacy Relationship Engine Relational Tools Archive for DB2 Archive for Servers ClarifyCRM PeopleSoft Oracle Apps Relational Tools Pre-Production (Test, Dev, Training, …) Active Archive Solutions Production

 PrincetonSoftech 2004  Support for Oracle Applications versions 11.0 & 11i  Financials Solution: –Assets –General Ledger –Payables –Receivables  Supply Chain Solution: –Purchasing –Order Management –Payables  Manufacturing –Inventory –Work in Process  Transparent access to data via standard Oracle Apps interface  framework designed to support standard purge archive as well as customizations Archive for Servers Oracle Applications Edition

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Provides Transparent Access Seamless access to BOTH archived and production data via Oracle Applications Leverages “Responsibility” to access data using standard Oracle Forms & Reports Steps to view archived data: –Login –Select Responsibility –Access archived data; production data; or BOTH Production Data Archived Data

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Archiving Historical Data GL – Balances, Journals … AP – Payments, Invoices, Vendors… AR – Receipts, Invoices … FA – Depreciation, Adjustments Locate, Browse, Query, Report... Data Access General Ledger Payables Receivables Assets Production Database Active Archive Database Archiving Oracle Financials Data

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Easy to Archive User-friendly administration and archiving interface (web-based) Steps to archive data: –Login –Select module to archive –Supply archiving criteria –Run archive process Runs process to archivehistorical production data Historical Production Data Production Data Archived Data

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Workbench Verification Report  System Verification Diagnostics –Comprehensive top to bottom configuration analysis/validation  Archive Process Diagnostics –performs application validation prior to archiving data –Verifies and matches table structures in the active archive database  Oracle Patch and Upgrade Checking –Detects mismatches –Provides upgrade procedures

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Oracle Applications Patch and Upgrade Support 1.Views, Forms, Reports and Synonyms 2.Minor Table Structure Modifications 3.Data Model Changes 4.Changes to the Purge Programs

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Workbench Archive Database Report

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Archive Database Report Details

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Archive the Archive

 PrincetonSoftech 2004 Transparent Access Demo If you are interested in seeing a Web Demo of our product and Transparent access to Production and Archive data via standard Oracle Applications – Contact Sales at (800) Or visit our website:

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