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

PrincetonSoftech 2004

Maximize Oracle E-Business Suite Performance

by Archiving Historical Data

David K. GlomskiSr. Consultant

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Agenda

Who are we?

Addressing the Problem

Product Overview

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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

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Database Growth Impacts IT Budgets

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Current Data

Historical Data

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

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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

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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

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Data will continue to Grow

Oracle Applications 5 Years (GB) 6 Years (GB) 7 Years (GB)

Entire Database 400 600 900

Financials Modules 260 390 585

Accounts Payable 120 180 270

General Ledger 80 120 180

Accounts Receivable 60 90 135

Other Modules 140 210 315

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Active Archive is the Solution

Data Access (locate, browse, query, report)

Production Database

Archive Database

ArchiveFiles

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

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CurrentData

1+ years

ActiveHistorical

2-3 years

(*) Adjust timeframes to meet retention time requirements

Non DBMSRetention Platform

ATA File ServerCentera

Off-line Retention Platform

CDTapeOptical

Archive File Management

ProductionDatabase

ArchiveReportingDatabase

Archive

On-lineArchive

4-7 years

Off-lineArchive

8+ years

Supports ILM Archiving Strategy

Information Lifecycle Management

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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 accessEasy Access to Data:

Increased response time Shorten batch cycles Increased productivity Maintain SLA’s

Improved Performance:

Archiving Value Proposition

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Princeton Softech Provides the Tools

OracleOracle SQLServer

SQLServer SybaseSybase InformixInformix DB2

UDB

DB2 UDB DB2DB2 LegacyLegacy

Relationship Engine

RelationalTools

Archive for DB2

Archivefor Servers

ClarifyCRMPeopleSoftOracle Apps

Relational Tools

Pre-Production(Test, Dev, Training, …)

Active Archive Solutions

Production

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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

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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

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Easy to ArchiveUser-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 archive historical production data

Historical Production Data

ProductionData

ArchivedData

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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

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Oracle ApplicationsPatch and Upgrade Support

1. Views, Forms, Reports and Synonyms

2. Minor Table Structure

Modifications

3. Data Model Changes

4. Changes to the Purge Programs

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Workbench Archive Database Report

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Archive Database Report Details

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Archive the Archive

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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) 457-7060Or visit our website:

www.princetonsoftech.com

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Questions?