Applimation Informia™ Archive

Data archiving solutions help manage data growth in enterprise applications

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. The strain the data puts on the application causes problems for a variety of people: 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. Nevertheless, deleting data outright is not an option as compliance requirements often dictate retention periods. Additionally, complex data models preclude straightforward deletes from application tables. Applimation provides archiving solutions for performance, compliance and application retirement.

Applimation Informia Archive for Performance

Enterprise application customers need to continuously improve the operational efficiency of their production environment. Applimation’s Informia™ Archive for Performance solution provides flexible archive and purge functionality to quickly reduce the overall size of production databases. Proactive archiving enables you to keep pace with the increasing rate of your business activity. Applimation Informia Archive reduces transaction volume for intensively used modules, thereby ensuring that inactive data does not interfere with the day to day use of active data.

Applimation Informia Archive for Compliance

Applimation’s Informia™ Archive for Compliance retires data with encapsulated XML objects to meet long term data retention, legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Each compliance object contains the entire configuration, operational and transactional data needed to identify any business transaction. With Applimation’s Enterprise Data Manager (EDM), accelerators for Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft and Siebel are already available to “jump start” your compliance implementation and user developed objects can be created using EDM’s GUI-based extensibility component.

Applimation Informia Archive for Retirement

Organizations upgrading or implementing newer versions of enterprise applications often face the challenge of existing legacy applications that have outlived their usefulness. To eliminate infrastructure and licensing costs, as well as functional redundancy, organizations must shut down these applications. However, the question of application data remains. Many organizations want to ensure accessibility to this older data without either converting it to the format of a new application or maintaining the technology necessary to run the legacy application. Applimation Informia Archive provides all data archiving functionality necessary to retire legacy applications.

Whitepaper: A Practical Guide to Retiring Legacy Applications

With the acquisition of Gamma Enterprise Technologies, Archive Bridge is now owned by Applimation.