In the course of its operation, an organization acquires data which eventually becomes redundant or obsolete making it necessary to retire this data to an archive store which can be easily accessed Consolidating and retiring applications enables a company’s IT department reduce costs that are required to maintain legacy data.

1. IBM Optim Application Retirement Solution
In the course of its operation, an organization acquires data which eventually becomes redundant or
obsolete making it necessary to retire this data to an archive store which can be easily accessed
Consolidating and retiring applications enables a company’s IT department reduce costs that are
required to maintain legacy data.
IBM’s InfoSphere Optim data lifecycle management solutions provide the capability to archive data
from decommissioned applications and enable access to the data when necessary. This reduces the
cost of maintaining historical data
One way of approaching the task of retiring applications is to utilize the IBM Optim Application
Retirement Solution which employs easy procedures and customized strategies to decommission
data and provide access to applications, databases, or systems when needed.
Our strategy for data migration is to implement:
 customized procedures for applications
 procedures for hardware and operating systems
 projects for databases
Data is archived in its original context with specific retrieval capabilities, enabling organizations to
implement their Application Retirement applications. Our Application Retirement Solution will
demonstrate how your organization can increase operational efficiency, and lower costs on your IT
infrastructure.
Some of the work we did to help clients archive their data:
Our experience with design and implement of an effective Application decommissioning Solution
comes with having executed decommissioning projects with data running on various hardware
systems, for a client. After the applications and hardware were safely retired, our clients used their
choice of reporting tools to access their historical data.
Another client had several different retired versions of Oracle E-Business Suite on separate operating
systems running on different hardware systems, and maintenance of these incurred hardware and
software system costs along with labor costs. According to the retirement strategy we designed, we
de-supported their Oracle EBS instances and provided access to the data without requiring licenses.
After studying their production process, we created an archiving template and implemented the IBM
Optim Application Retirement Solution. This enabled us to eliminate hardware costs on the archived
databases.