Applimation offers an ongoing series of free live Web Seminars by some of the leading experts in archiving and information lifecycle management.
How to Bring Automation to the Data Divestiture Process
When: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Time: 11:30 AM CT Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC
In today’s business climate, companies continuously evolve through mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Divesting a business unit, whether because of a sale or a spin-off, is a complicated process, especially at the IT level. The divested entity’s enterprise data is often combined with that of other business units in a single global database. These databases typically have tens of thousands of tables and hundreds of millions of records, and the process of divesting a business unit’s data, without disrupting the operations of other units or the parent company, is extremely complicated. Approaching this challenge without an automated solution requires substantial manual effort that is fraught with risk.
In this webinar, you will learn how Applimation’s Informia Subset product brings a high degree of automation to the divestiture process. You will see that out-of-the-box product functionality, combined with a proven methodology, creates a powerful and effective solution for corporate divestitures.
Recorded Web Seminars
IIf you were unable to attend our free Live Webinars, you now have the opportunity to view the recorded sessions. These free 60-minute Web presentations can help you learn how to implement ILM Best Practices to achieve optimal data growth management, compliance and security strategies.
What You Should Know About Retiring Legacy Applications
Speaker: Joshua Alpern Where: Your PC When: On Demand
About the Webinar:
Applimation Informia Archive provides a powerful and effective solution for legacy application retirement. It retires legacy data to save you enormous costs – such as software and database licenses, human expertise, maintenance payments, etc. – associated with the legacy application. Informia Archive’s out-of-the-box integration with leading storage platforms and its e-discovery portal ensure that your organization has ongoing access to the legacy data without having to rely on the older technology.
This webinar will take a closer look at how organizations can protect themselves from future unforeseen operational and compliance requirements and how to preserve legacy data and maintain accessibility to it.
Optimize Your Test and Development Environments with Current SAP Production Data
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
About the Webinar:
In SAP environments, testers and developers are often hampered by the lack of high quality, current data in their SAP client environments. This is because provisioning production data into existing non-production clients using traditional methods, without disrupting active projects and without leveraging precious BASIS resources, is nearly impossible. The eventual result of this problem is lower quality applications in production.
InfoShuttle Data on Demand is a software solution that provides powerful, flexible functionality for provisioning incremental sets of current, high-quality data to existing nonproduction SAP clients. In this webinar we show you that using Data on Demand enables you to:
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Copy current, relevant production data to test and development clients
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Automatically capture business process data and all dependent objects and documents
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Eliminate the need for additional, or frequent, refreshes
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Remove the need for manual record entry
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Ensure that data is consistent across Development and Test environments
Best Practices for Archiving Deltek Costpoint
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
About the Webinar:
Every year the amount of data in your Deltek Costpoint database grows. If left unchecked, this growth hampers application performance, slows administrative tasks, and increases storage costs. In this session, you will learn how best practices in application archiving enable you to:
Relocate inactive data to an online “history” location
Maintain full accessibility to archived data through existing interfaces and reports
Ensure complete application integrity during and after archiving
Improve production environment performance
Reduce the overall size of your application data footprint
Best Practices for Preventing Data Leakage from SAP Non-Production Systems
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
There is a growing need to protect sensitive business data across the enterprise. With a number of well-publicized and costly thefts creating tremendous legal liability and bad publicity for the affected organizations, businesses have grown increasingly sophisticated in protecting their production systems.
An important tier of computer data remains unprotected by today’s new security procedures — non-production systems used for in-house development, testing and training purposes. These environments leverage "real data" to test applications, such as social security numbers, bank records and financial documents.
Users will learn to understand and implement policies that:
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Insure the security and confidentiality of customer records and information while retaining data integrity
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Protect against unauthorized access or use of such records or information
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Protect sensitive data in non-production environments using technology that is regularly updated according to evolving standards and regulations
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Provide ongoing independent compliance review and reports the results to senior management
Applimation’s InfoShuttle® Data Security will enable you to protect your sensitive business data by providing an efficient and effective means to mask or “obfuscate” data, including cross-referenced keys, to ensure high integrity data protection on your development, test, training and “sandbox” systems.
Archiving Best Practices: 9 Steps to Successful ILM
A Must Attend Event for All Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Custom Application Users!
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
Learn how Applimation's Informia Archive can provide you with Best Practices for Information Lifecycle Management.
By attending this webinar, you will learn how to become an Archiving Best Practices advocate!
You Will Learn How to:
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Understand Your Data Growth Trends
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Determine Success Criteria
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Establish a Data Retention Policy
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Select a Solution with Pre-Packaged Business Rules
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Extend the Business Rules
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Test the Business Rules
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Create User Access Policies
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Ensure Restoration
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Follow a Time-Tested Methodology
New Use Cases for Siebel Application Archiving
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering Where: Your PC When: On Demand
Data growth issues are a rising concern for organizations of all sizes. At the same time, business policies and regulations require organizations to retain structured and unstructured data indefinitely. Storing increasing amounts of data on production systems is a recipe for poor performance no matter how much hardware is added or an application is tuned. Organizations need a way to manage this growth effectively.
You will learn the best practices in data archiving for Siebel applications which will enable you to:
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Improve production environment performance
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Fully retire inactive data to office storage devices
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Reduce the size and resource requirements of the production environment
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Archive and purge inactive data
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Improve backup and recovery time requirements
Cost Cutting Methodologies for SAP Test and Development in a Slowing Economy
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
SAP is not a static environment. It requires ongoing support to handle changes in business processes and information requirements. Creating and maintaining non-production systems for test and development can be a costly and time consuming process with multiple test clients in existence at any one time.
This webinar will help you control costs by:
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Putting the necessary policies and procedures in place to keep test data current and consistent across the enterprise
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Creating and updating non-production clients with user-defined subsets
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Reducing demands for increasing disk space and system upgrades
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Shortening test cycles and lowering deployment risk by ensuring that applications will perform as expected when deployed
Applimation’s InfoShuttle® Suite from Gamma enables users to implement business processes that automate, control and secure the replication of SAP data to:
Secure data in test and development to ensure compliance
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Accelerate testing and development
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Operationalize these functions into on-going processes
By providing the industry's only fully integrated software solution offering end-to-end data management capability, the InfoShuttle suite builds an efficient infrastructure for controlling SAP operational expenses.
Learn How to Create Smaller Copies of Production and Enable Enterprise Data Privacy
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
Organizations maintaining multiple non-production application environments face two daunting challenges:
Large storage footprints
Unprotected sensitive information
Traditionally, IT personnel create a full size of production for every non-production environment. Usually this is an inefficient use of storage space as development and testing teams do not require a significant amount of data to accomplish their objectives. Compounding this problem is the presence of sensitive data in every non-production copy. Indeed, with every additional copy, the risk of a data breach increases.
In this webinar, you will hear Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, discuss how Applimation’s Informia Subset product creates space efficient, non-production copies that contain only data necessary to the task at hand. Key trends on data security and threats that enterprises face when supporting test and development environments will also be addressed.
Accelerate Application Development and Deployment by Optimizing Your SAP Test Data
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
SAP® customers need good test data during development and testing to ensure that applications can be deployed successfully and efficiently, reducing risk and cost.
This webinar will help you:
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Use “real-life” production data to ensure that applications will perform as expected when deployed
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Replicate production data into existing non-production environments, such as development, QA and training
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Select master, transaction and related configuration data from production to build fully functional “lean” clients for test and development
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Update non-production clients with specific subsets of current master and transactional data while ensuring full data integrity
Applimation’s InfoShuttle® Suite from Gamma enables users to implement business processes that automate, control and secure the replication of SAP data to:
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Create new “lean” clients
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Update existing clients
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Secure non-production data
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Accelerate testing and development
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Operationalize these functions into on-going processes
By providing the industry's only fully integrated software solution offering end-to-end management capability, the InfoShuttle suite builds an efficient infrastructure for enterprise-wide control of SAP data.
Archiving Your PeopleSoft Campus Solution Environment
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On demand
Higher education institutions are increasingly looking to information
technology (IT) to improve students’ experience, cut costs, drive efficiencies,
and achieve regulatory compliance. Over the past decade, many institutions
replaced inefficient manual processes and aging systems with off-the-shelf
enterprise resource planning, human resources and student administration
applications. However today, these very same institutions face the dual
challenges of managing the exponential data growth within these enterprise applications.
In this session, you will learn:
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The different methods of application archiving
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The advantages and challenges of each archiving method
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The importance of e-discovery and it's relation to archiving
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How to accommodate legal holds in your archiving strategy
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The benefits of a multi-tiered archiving architecture
Best Practices in Application Data Privacy
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC
When: On Demand
Learn how Applimation's data masking solution enables organizations to protect sensitive data while simultaneously enabling users to have the necessary application access.
You will learn how to:
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Protect sensitive application data
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Protect data against theft
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Enforce privacy regulations
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Enable safe data sharing
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Prevent unintended data exposure to unauthorized users
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Reduce risk of data breaches
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Enable appropriate user access for legitimate business objectives
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Enhance test-data quality
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Maintain application reference integrity while protecting data
Improve Application Performance: Archive Your PeopleSoft Environment
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
A Free 45 minute web presentation which will help you learn how Application archiving has evolved far beyond the simple task of removing old transaction data from a database.
In this webinar that specifically addresses PeopleSoft applications, you will learn how archiving:
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Improves the performance of your production environment
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Enables your organization to meet unforeseen compliance and legal requirements
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Maintains the business context of archived data in both database and offline formats
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Retires legacy applications while retaining potentially valuable business data
Optimizing Test and Development Environments in SAP
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
SAP® customers need good test data during development and testing to ensure that applications can be deployed successfully and efficiently, reducing risk and cost.
This webinar will help you:
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Use “real-life” production data to ensure that applications will perform as expected when deployedUse “real-life” production data to ensure that applications will perform as expected when deployed
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Replicate production data into existing non-production environments, such as development, QA and training
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Select master, transaction and related configuration data from production to build fully functional “lean” clients for test and development
4.
Update non-production clients with specific subsets of current master and transactional data while ensuring full data integrity
Applimation’s InfoShuttle® Suite from Gamma enables users to implement business processes that automate, control and secure the replication of SAP data to:
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Create new “lean” clients
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Update existing clients
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Secure non-production data
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Accelerate testing and development
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Operationalize these functions into on-going processes
By providing the industry's only fully integrated software solution offering end-to-end management capability, the InfoShuttle suite builds an efficient infrastructure for enterprise-wide control of SAP data.
Protecting Private Information: Addressing the Challenge in Higher Education Institutions
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation Where: Your PC When: On Demand
Protecting sensitive data is a significant challenge for any organization that collects and stores information about individuals. Institutions of higher education are especially susceptible to this challenge as student information accumulates year after year. Regulatory compliance standards such as FERPA, also put pressure on educational institutions to protect student education records. Consequences of noncompliance can be severe if data is lost or compromised.
Production enterprise applications at universities and colleges that store this sensitive data have robust security models that restrict access to authorized users. However, non-production application environments (used for development and testing purposes) are often much less secure despite containing the same sensitive data. These non-production environments therefore represent a particular vulnerability for any organization trying to protect sensitive information.
In this session you will learn how to effectively protect these non-production environments using a proven, automated software solution. You will also learn how to adhere to regulatory compliance standards by efficiently provisioning production and non-production systems that comply with privacy requirements.
Best Practices in Archiving for Oracle Process Manufacturing
Speakers: Karen Theel, Senior Strategy Director for Process Manufacturing, Oracle
Aaron Rangel, VP of Product Management, Applimation
In this webinar, Oracle's Senior Strategic Director for Process Manufacturing, Karen Theel, will review the Oracle Process Manufacturing in today's environment. Applimation's VP, Product Management, Aaron Rangel, will discuss how an effective archiving strategy improves the operational efficiency of your process manufacturing environment.
You Will Learn:
Reduce transaction volume for intensively used OPM modules
Maintain complete application integrity
Cap production database size to maintain product performance and costs
Speed backup cycle time
Reduce the size of production clones
Reduce overall OPM data footprint
Adhere to legal and regulatory compliant records standards
Retire legacy OPM and custom data
Meet ILM objectives for all application data based on defined retention policies
Secure Your Test Environments to Ensure Regulatory Compliance
Speaker: Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst, Forrester
This webinar will be presented by Forrester's Principal Analyst Noel Yuhanna, and will take a closer look at the challenges enterprises face when protecting private data in all non-production environments.
You Will Learn:
How your enterprise can control data access to meet compliance requirements by employing advanced security technologies such as data masking.
Best practices for using data masking to maintain data security
How these techniques and best practices have been applied in real-world case studies
