Applimation offers an ongoing series of free live Web Seminars by some of the leading experts in archiving and information lifecycle management.
Effective Database Management Strategies for SAP Testing and Development
Methodologies to lower costs while improving test data management
When: On Demand
Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Informatica ILM Business Unit Where: Your PC
Using full-size SAP client copies for development and testing activities can be inefficient and costly since project teams must wait for the client copy process to complete and because a full size client often contains data that is irrelevant to the project team. By creating smaller, targeted clients for project teams, organizations can save significant time and storage costs.
In this presentation, experts from Informatica, formerly Applimation, will discuss optimizing non-production clients for better time and storage cost savings as they relate to the SAP non-production environment. They will also provide an overview of Informatica’s Data Subset for SAP solution, which can help you:
Easily create new “lean” clients, up to 80% smaller than production systems
Build clients in hours, rather than days or weeks
Quickly replicate user-selected transaction and master data
Improve data quality for development, test, training, sandbox and other non-production environments
Lower application deployment risk by using current, consistent data in testing and development clients
Enable applications and upgrades to be rolled out faster resulting in fewer errors and significant cost savings
Quickly replicate production problems for troubleshooting on non-production systems
Ensure upgrade quality with shorter and more frequent testing cycles
Protect confidential data in non-production environments
If 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.
Best Practices in Archiving: 9 Steps to Information Lifecycle Management
When: On Demand Where: Your PC
Organizations running enterprise applications generate massive quantities of data. Traditionally, this data remains in the application database, even long after it is no longer useful to application users transacting current business activity. Eventually every organization realizes that keeping all of this data in the production database is not sustainable.
Informatica, formerly Applimation, details 9 steps to effective application archiving that will help save you time, optimize your infrastructure costs and ultimately improve your bottom line.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
Understand Your Data Growth Trends
Determine Success Criteria
Establish a Data Retention Policy
Select a Solution with Pre-Packaged Business Rules
Extend the Business Rules
Test the Business Rules
Create User Access Policies
Ensure Restoration
Follow a Time-Test Methodology
Optimize Test and Development with Smaller Production Copies
Minimize Costs and Maximize Resources in Non-production Environments
When: On Demand
Where: Your PC
Using full-size database copies for test and development can slow you down, proving to be costly and ineffective in the long run. Optimize the management of test data in your application development and data integration efforts, save unnecessary downtime and storage costs by reducing the size of database test copies.
In this presentation, you will learn the methods used for creating smaller test copies from your production database while without losing any application functionality or breaking any referential integrity. You will also receive an expert overview of the Informatica, formerly Applimation, Data Subset solution, which features:
·Creation of smaller databases for targeted business area testing or development
Definition of application-level business policies to select data
A flexible method for replicating sets of current master and transactional data while ensuring full data integrity
Pre-packaged Data Subset accelerators for Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft Enterprise and Siebel CRM applications
Automated creation of a divested database (very applicable in merger and acquisition scenarios) that is fully functional with all application integrity intact, ready for use in the newly divested entity.
Lower Costs, Enhance Performance by Archiving for Siebel
How controlling data growth leads to bottom-line savings and increased productivity
When: On Demand Where: Your PC
In today’s economic climate, organizations are looking for ways to better utilize their resources while reducing their budgets. One way savvy IT departments are doing this is by proactively implementing enterprise data growth management practices through data archiving. As a result, organizations can greatly reduce costs and improve performance while satisfying retention requirements.
Informatica ILM, formerly Applimation, presents an expert overview on how you can establish data archiving for your Siebel CRM environment. In this presentation, you’ll learn how Applimation Informia Archive for Siebel can enable you to:
Plan an effective data management strategy by examining data distribution and growth patterns across Siebel CRM modules
Archive and purge inactive or historical transactional data automatically to an optimized, online database or offline flat file format
Accommodate any customizations or related third party data along with standard Siebel CRM data
Restore archive data at any time
Retire legacy Siebel applications
Comply with regulatory and legal requirements by implementing a long term data retention strategy
Significant Savings in Challenging Times: Retiring Legacy Applications
When: On Demand
Where: Your PC
Do you want to:
Eliminate database costs?
Eliminate application maintenance charges?
Eliminate or redistribute servers?
Maximize data center space?
Reduce power costs?
Reduce expensive application and database internal support charges?
Budget-conscious IT departments are doing this by retiring legacy applications that are no longer central to everyday business. But how do you manage application retirement, address data retention concerns and still benefit from bottom-line savings?
Find out how to effectively retire your legacy applications and enjoy lower total cost of ownership in this complimentary webinar from Informatica, formerly Applimation, the leading provider of enterprise data management solutions. With years of experience in archiving enterprise application databases for public, private, governmental, educational and non-profit organizations, we’ll provide an expert overview of retirement best practices, real customer stories and the Informia Archive for Retirement solution in this presentation.
Reaping the Rewards of a Comprehensive SAP Data Management Solution
Saving Costs, Managing Growth and Data Security for Production and Non-Production Data
When: On Demand
Where: Your PC
More than ever, organizations are looking for ways to cut costs and maximize the use of every dollar. One way leading companies are doing this is by adopting smarter application data management solutions that proactively manage and optimize precious resources.
By providing the industry’s only fully integrated software solution offering end-to-end data management capability, Applimation’s Informia Suite for SAP can help you build an efficient infrastructure for enterprise-wide control of SAP data resulting in reduced cost, lower risk and increased efficiency. Applimation – the only solution provider built on the world’s most extensive repository of SAP objects and relationships – will present a brief overview of its SAP solutions and feature real customer stories where substantial time and cost savings impacted the bottom line.
The overview of Applimation Informia Suite of SAP solutions will include highlights on:
Applimation Informia Archive - Extends standard SAP archiving functionality to enable independent access to archived data outside the SAP applications while integrating with leading storage and content management systems.
Applimation Informia Data Subset – Provides a flexible solution for building new, lean clients from selected production data. Data Subset reduces the time and disk space requirements for reduced cost and better efficiency.
Applimation Informia Data on Demand - Replicates incremental sets of current production data into existing non-production clients, improving productivity and shortening development and test cycles. The objective is to improve data quality in testing and development environments, which in turn leads to higher quality applications running in production.
Applimation Informia Secure - Enables SAP users to protect confidential data contained in non-production environments. It maintains compliance by automatically applying protection schemes to sensitive data while maintaining test validity.
Improve Performance and Reduce Data Growth Costs by Archiving Business Applications
When: On Demand
Where: Your PC
Tired of increasingly long database application lag times? Find out from the experts how effective application archiving enables your ERP production environment to keep pace with your increasing rate of business activity. Applimation offers this informative webinar that will help you take proactive steps that will save time, optimize your infrastructure costs and ultimately improve your bottom line. You’ll learn how effective archiving can:
Improve performance of your production environment
Archive or purge inactive transactional data automatically to an online database or offline flat file
Create smaller, fully functioning databases for testing and development purposes
Further your bottom-line savings with efficient application retirement
How to Bring Automation to the Data Divestiture Process
When: On Demand
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.
How to Effectively Manage Data Growth on DB2 Mainframe Platforms Archiving for Performance Improvement and Application Retirement
Where: Your PC When: On Demand
Organizations that run enterprise applications on DB2 for z/OS generate massive quantities of data that often remains in the application database long after it is no longer relevant to current business activity. Keeping this data in the DB2 production database is not sustainable. The strain that the data puts on the application causes problems; application users suffer longer response times, IT staff find it increasingly difficult to meet service level agreements, and managers cannot effectively plan for future business growth. Deleting data is usually not an option as compliance requirements often dictate retention periods.
In this informative presentation, you’ll learn how Informia™ Archive addresses these important issues by enabling you to:
Archive for Performance Improvement
Reduce transaction volume for intensively used modules to ensure that inactive data does not interfere with the day-to-day use of current data
Maintain acceptable performance of batch processing, individual queries and reports as inactive data is relocated
Reduce data volume in your production database enables faster backups, smaller clones and less outage time during patch and upgrade cycles.
Archive for Application Retirement
Eliminate infrastructure and licensing costs, as well as functional redundancies related to legacy applications
Ensure accessibility to older data without converting it to the format of a new application or maintaining the technology necessary to run the legacy application
Write all records to flat files while an e-discovery engine indexes information for future searching and reporting
Archive, Access and View Your SAP Production Data Efficiently Find Out Why Using Only SAP to Archive is Not Enough
When: On Demand
Where: Your PC
About the Webinar:
Businesses running SAP are faced with the problem of managing their overall production data growth so that they can continue to meet the increasing demand of ongoing business activity. While some businesses diligently archive their data, they also find it increasingly difficult to retrieve an accurate representation of the archived business objects that can satisfy demands for legal, audit or regulatory compliance purposes.
Informia Archive offers SAP users a proactive solution that goes beyond the native tools offered in SAP applications. With its unique Archive, Access and View capabilities, users have access to important transactional and related master data for a complete business picture of the archived data. No other solution offers such a complete view of archived SAP data.
In this presentation, you will learn about Informia Archive's key features:
Implementation of the SAP archive link protocol to deliver open, non-proprietary XML-archived data.
True business view of archived data through Applimation's Transformation Engine that archives transaction data along with its associated master and configuration data.
Intuitive access and view capabilities with Applimation's Presentation Engine. Access and view archived data independent from SAP but with the look and feel of an SAP GUI familiar to end users.
Comprehensive compliance and risk management capability, with rich metadata for search, retrieval and legal hold available with Applimation's included e-Discovery Portal.
Convenient interface with leading storage products and enterprise content management systems using Applimation's Storage Gateway.
How to Secure Your Non-Production PeopleSoft Campus Solution Environments
When: On Demand
Where: Your PC
About the Webinar:
Protecting sensitive data is a significant challenge for any institution 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.
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
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.
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
