As technology becomes obsolete and organization deploy new applications, many enterprise application end up outliving their usefulness and become known as “legacy applications”. When evaluating options for retiring such “legacy applications,” it’s important to evaluate vendor solutions and understand what each vendor offers and how the solutions can be used in your environment. This white paper examines how a new technology can transform the way organizations access and deliver information.
The document provides an overview of the Application Implementation Methodology (AIM), which is Oracle's methodology for implementing Oracle applications. It describes AIM as a set of principles, guidelines, and processes that can be tailored for specific implementation situations. It also lists some key aspects of AIM including that it provides a detailed roadmap, leverages experience from thousands of implementations, and encompasses all essential project steps. The document then goes into more detail about various aspects of AIM including its phases, processes, templates and tools, and how it addresses objectives related to people, processes, and technology.
Application rationalization- Invest today to save tomorrow!Vivek Mishra
The document discusses application rationalization and provides guidance on conducting the process. It outlines six key steps: 1) strategic alignment to define objectives and scope, 2) creating an application inventory, 3) assessing value and scoring applications, 4) designing the future state, 5) developing a rationalization roadmap, and 6) managing changes. Critical success factors include top management commitment, clear objectives, stakeholder participation, and robust application health analysis. Application rationalization is presented as a precursor to modernization efforts like cloud migration and helps optimize costs by eliminating redundant applications.
An Integrated Approach to Application Portfolio RationalizationCognizant
An application portfolio rationalization (APR) process can yield great IT gains in TCO, COGS, ROI and maneuvering room for new projects and technologies. Properly conducted, an AVR will uncover key retirement, integration or technical remediation opportunities, but it requires business buy-in and clear goals as well as the effective use of proven tools and accelerators.
Leveraging the Power of the ServiceNow® Platform with Mainframe and IBM i Sys...Precisely
ServiceNow is a recognized leader transforming the impact, speed and delivery of IT by breaking down silos and providing visibility across the enterprise. Meanwhile, more than 2.5 billion business transactions run on mainframes each day and over 100,000 companies use IBM i technology to run their business. Yet, until recently, these critical systems have been disconnected from the ServiceNow platform – leaving a significant blind spot in the enterprise-wide view of IT infrastructure.
View this webinar on-demand to learn about Syncsort Ironstream, the first product to seamlessly integrate IBM mainframe and IBM i systems into the ServiceNow platform to support IT Operations and Service Management.
Product experts will discuss the value this integration delivers to your business, as well as show how mainframe and IBM i data is used within the ServiceNow platform to deliver high-performance business services.
During this webinar, we cover:
• The benefits – and challenges – of including mainframe and IBM i data in the ServiceNow platform
• How Syncsort Ironstream integrates with ServiceNow Discovery and ServiceNow Event Management
• A demonstration of how mainframe and IBM i data works within ServiceNow to address top ITSM use cases, including change management, incident management and event management
How Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud Services can Help Life Sciences...Jade Global
This presentation focuses on leveraging Oracle PPM cloud solutions for Life Sciences industries. Jade offers consulting services for companies to be able to design the Project Portfolio Management solution as per their requirement.
This plan provides any parties interested in implementing Oracle Applications with a framework for doing so. It contains the detailed tasks involved and lists the associated resources that may be needed. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) codes tie back in to the Oracle AIM documents that should be prepared for each task and phase.
The Best of Both Worlds: Creating a Business Service Catalog and Technical Service Catalog
If you are having a difficult time determining the scope of services to include in your service catalog, consider developing two service catalogs: a business service catalog that is visible to customers, and a technical support catalog that is used internally by IT. This session will provide a unique perspective on IT services, as well as on creating, maintaining, and utilizing service catalogs and service portfolios. The session will focus on practical guidance, critical process relationships, real-life examples, and interactive learning.
What to do when a system stops providing the value that your business needs and an immediate change is necessary? Replacing such a system is usually the first idea that comes to mind. However, is it the only and the best approach you should consider? Not necessarily!
The document provides an overview of the Application Implementation Methodology (AIM), which is Oracle's methodology for implementing Oracle applications. It describes AIM as a set of principles, guidelines, and processes that can be tailored for specific implementation situations. It also lists some key aspects of AIM including that it provides a detailed roadmap, leverages experience from thousands of implementations, and encompasses all essential project steps. The document then goes into more detail about various aspects of AIM including its phases, processes, templates and tools, and how it addresses objectives related to people, processes, and technology.
Application rationalization- Invest today to save tomorrow!Vivek Mishra
The document discusses application rationalization and provides guidance on conducting the process. It outlines six key steps: 1) strategic alignment to define objectives and scope, 2) creating an application inventory, 3) assessing value and scoring applications, 4) designing the future state, 5) developing a rationalization roadmap, and 6) managing changes. Critical success factors include top management commitment, clear objectives, stakeholder participation, and robust application health analysis. Application rationalization is presented as a precursor to modernization efforts like cloud migration and helps optimize costs by eliminating redundant applications.
An Integrated Approach to Application Portfolio RationalizationCognizant
An application portfolio rationalization (APR) process can yield great IT gains in TCO, COGS, ROI and maneuvering room for new projects and technologies. Properly conducted, an AVR will uncover key retirement, integration or technical remediation opportunities, but it requires business buy-in and clear goals as well as the effective use of proven tools and accelerators.
Leveraging the Power of the ServiceNow® Platform with Mainframe and IBM i Sys...Precisely
ServiceNow is a recognized leader transforming the impact, speed and delivery of IT by breaking down silos and providing visibility across the enterprise. Meanwhile, more than 2.5 billion business transactions run on mainframes each day and over 100,000 companies use IBM i technology to run their business. Yet, until recently, these critical systems have been disconnected from the ServiceNow platform – leaving a significant blind spot in the enterprise-wide view of IT infrastructure.
View this webinar on-demand to learn about Syncsort Ironstream, the first product to seamlessly integrate IBM mainframe and IBM i systems into the ServiceNow platform to support IT Operations and Service Management.
Product experts will discuss the value this integration delivers to your business, as well as show how mainframe and IBM i data is used within the ServiceNow platform to deliver high-performance business services.
During this webinar, we cover:
• The benefits – and challenges – of including mainframe and IBM i data in the ServiceNow platform
• How Syncsort Ironstream integrates with ServiceNow Discovery and ServiceNow Event Management
• A demonstration of how mainframe and IBM i data works within ServiceNow to address top ITSM use cases, including change management, incident management and event management
How Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud Services can Help Life Sciences...Jade Global
This presentation focuses on leveraging Oracle PPM cloud solutions for Life Sciences industries. Jade offers consulting services for companies to be able to design the Project Portfolio Management solution as per their requirement.
This plan provides any parties interested in implementing Oracle Applications with a framework for doing so. It contains the detailed tasks involved and lists the associated resources that may be needed. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) codes tie back in to the Oracle AIM documents that should be prepared for each task and phase.
The Best of Both Worlds: Creating a Business Service Catalog and Technical Service Catalog
If you are having a difficult time determining the scope of services to include in your service catalog, consider developing two service catalogs: a business service catalog that is visible to customers, and a technical support catalog that is used internally by IT. This session will provide a unique perspective on IT services, as well as on creating, maintaining, and utilizing service catalogs and service portfolios. The session will focus on practical guidance, critical process relationships, real-life examples, and interactive learning.
What to do when a system stops providing the value that your business needs and an immediate change is necessary? Replacing such a system is usually the first idea that comes to mind. However, is it the only and the best approach you should consider? Not necessarily!
This document provides an overview of Oracle Fusion & Cloud Applications. It discusses Oracle Fusion Applications and Middleware, the product families, technology differences between EBS and Fusion Applications, product release support for Fusion upgrades, skills required for Fusion consultants, and how to configure and extend Fusion using composers like Data, Process, Page and Report Composers. It also summarizes customization options for Fusion pages, objects, processes, security and more.
RPA at Full Scale. Advancing From Initial Success to Sustainable AutomationUiPath
The question everyone is asking right now is this: how do I transition from a successful RPA pilot to an enterprise wide roll-out? Learn the answer from this detailed guide packed with practical knowledge and strategic insight.
A Comprehensive Approach to Application Portfolio RationalizationCognizant
A comprehensive approach to application portfolio rationalization will enable organizations to maximize the business value of their applications and focus on strategic opportunities.
This document summarizes an application portfolio rationalization methodology based on a book by Prashant Halari, Sushil Paigankar, Hitesh Salla, and Rajaram Vengurlekar. The methodology aims to establish a quantitative baseline to make prudent management decisions regarding applications. It ensures proper business-IT alignment by prioritizing applications that need attention and determining management options. The methodology involves selecting participants, collecting data, analyzing applications, categorizing them, validating categorizations with stakeholders, and developing a roadmap. Lessons learned include treating it as a broader decision process and measuring applications over their lifecycles.
Application Consolidation and RetirementIBM Analytics
Originally Published: Feb 04, 2015
Multiple, disconnected systems or an outdated application infrastructure can negatively impact your business and increase your costs. Consolidating applications, retiring outdated databases and modernizing systems can streamline your infrastructure and free resources to focus on important new projects.
DevEx aims to improve the developer experience by focusing on tooling, technologies, and documentation within a DevOps environment. This includes adopting integrated toolchains that streamline the development lifecycle through automation and by ensuring tools are well-tested, configurable, and have comprehensive documentation. The goal of DevEx is to create an optimal software production environment by minimizing friction between development, testing, and operations teams through collaboration, shared tools, and improved processes.
This document provides an overview of Amitech's RPA portfolio assessment and planning services. It discusses developing an automation roadmap, identifying and prioritizing use cases, determining ROI, and establishing governance. The document also describes Amitech's non-development services including change management, training, and scaling bots. It provides examples of prioritized use cases and a sample 12-month RPA timeline and value projections. The pricing section outlines Amitech's blended hourly rate for an initial 18-week development and implementation period.
You and your colleagues are all doing great things with Splunk. But you seldom come together to share ideas, apps and best practices. This session will help you take Splunk to the next level by helping you establish a Splunk Center of Excellence (CoE) at your organization. The purpose of a COE is simple - to provide Splunk users an informal venue in which they can discuss ideas, diagnose challenges, share innovations and network with peers. This session will share the best practices you need to create and maintain a successful CoE practice.
Business Process Automation and Data Processing WorkflowsMarlon Dumas
Presentation on Business Process Management Systems and Data Processing Workflow Systems delivered at the Italian Statistics Institute (IStat), 3 May 2018.
Orchestrator - Practical Approach to host UiPath OrchestratorVibhor Shrivastava
1. We are answering
2. We are answering Active\Passive
3. Walkthrough to set up Orchestrator with HAA in minutes on Azure PAAS
4. Setting Up Bot for High Availability
This document discusses the challenges of implementing an ERP system at Warid Telecom. It notes that Warid needs to be more responsive, flexible, and resilient to meet stakeholder expectations. Implementing an ERP system could help improve operational efficiency across various business functions. Some key challenges of ERP implementation include effectively changing employee behaviors, integrating data from all parts of the value chain, managing changes, and addressing the "knowing-doing gap". The document provides recommendations around ERP planning, availability checks, implementation approaches, and benefits of a successful first implementation.
This document provides a gap analysis checklist to help companies determine if their existing IT systems and business processes need to be upgraded. The checklist covers key areas like regulatory compliance, streamlining operations, decision making, collaboration, flexibility, and global operations. Completing the checklist identifies gaps between a company's current and desired future states. This will help indicate whether upgrading to a modern ERP system could help address business objectives.
This document discusses moving American Express' Pega testing towards a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) model. It outlines Cognizant's existing Pega testing footprint for Amex projects, the benefits of a TCoE for centralized testing, and key elements of a TCoE including standardized processes, tools, and a "core-flex" resourcing model. Establishing a Pega TCoE would optimize resource utilization, reduce costs, and institutionalize testing knowledge through a shared services approach.
Oracle Fusion consists of Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications. Fusion Middleware includes Oracle Application Server and other acquired technologies covering areas like BI, identity management, and SOA. Fusion Applications will eventually replace E-Business Suite by assimilating features from projects, financials, HCM, and CRM modules. Fusion Applications is built on Fusion Middleware using Oracle's Fusion Architecture. It includes modules for CRM, financials, HCM, procurement, PPM, SCM, setup, and GRC. Each module contains one or more Java applications deployed on Oracle WebLogic Server.
eCIO PPT Sunsetting strategy v 3 general distributionDavid Niles
This document provides an overview and framework for developing an application retirement and decommissioning strategy for a large-scale project. It discusses the objectives to understand application retirement efforts and illustrate the retirement process. The document outlines the approach, requirements, applications scheduled for retirement in waves, and provides a high-level schedule. It also discusses assumptions, scope, and background for the decommissioning project.
The pathway to the cloud has many different options and levers that customers can pull. This webinar walks customers through actual steps from creating a cloud adoption vision to actually building a migration roadmap with actionable guidance. We’ll go through proven migration patterns, methods and tooling that AWS has leveraged successfully with hundreds of Enterprise customers around the globe. Learn what challenges customers face when planning the migrations to cloud, and how they overcome them to minimize risk and accelerate the adoption.
This document provides an overview of Oracle Fusion & Cloud Applications. It discusses Oracle Fusion Applications and Middleware, the product families, technology differences between EBS and Fusion Applications, product release support for Fusion upgrades, skills required for Fusion consultants, and how to configure and extend Fusion using composers like Data, Process, Page and Report Composers. It also summarizes customization options for Fusion pages, objects, processes, security and more.
RPA at Full Scale. Advancing From Initial Success to Sustainable AutomationUiPath
The question everyone is asking right now is this: how do I transition from a successful RPA pilot to an enterprise wide roll-out? Learn the answer from this detailed guide packed with practical knowledge and strategic insight.
A Comprehensive Approach to Application Portfolio RationalizationCognizant
A comprehensive approach to application portfolio rationalization will enable organizations to maximize the business value of their applications and focus on strategic opportunities.
This document summarizes an application portfolio rationalization methodology based on a book by Prashant Halari, Sushil Paigankar, Hitesh Salla, and Rajaram Vengurlekar. The methodology aims to establish a quantitative baseline to make prudent management decisions regarding applications. It ensures proper business-IT alignment by prioritizing applications that need attention and determining management options. The methodology involves selecting participants, collecting data, analyzing applications, categorizing them, validating categorizations with stakeholders, and developing a roadmap. Lessons learned include treating it as a broader decision process and measuring applications over their lifecycles.
Application Consolidation and RetirementIBM Analytics
Originally Published: Feb 04, 2015
Multiple, disconnected systems or an outdated application infrastructure can negatively impact your business and increase your costs. Consolidating applications, retiring outdated databases and modernizing systems can streamline your infrastructure and free resources to focus on important new projects.
DevEx aims to improve the developer experience by focusing on tooling, technologies, and documentation within a DevOps environment. This includes adopting integrated toolchains that streamline the development lifecycle through automation and by ensuring tools are well-tested, configurable, and have comprehensive documentation. The goal of DevEx is to create an optimal software production environment by minimizing friction between development, testing, and operations teams through collaboration, shared tools, and improved processes.
This document provides an overview of Amitech's RPA portfolio assessment and planning services. It discusses developing an automation roadmap, identifying and prioritizing use cases, determining ROI, and establishing governance. The document also describes Amitech's non-development services including change management, training, and scaling bots. It provides examples of prioritized use cases and a sample 12-month RPA timeline and value projections. The pricing section outlines Amitech's blended hourly rate for an initial 18-week development and implementation period.
You and your colleagues are all doing great things with Splunk. But you seldom come together to share ideas, apps and best practices. This session will help you take Splunk to the next level by helping you establish a Splunk Center of Excellence (CoE) at your organization. The purpose of a COE is simple - to provide Splunk users an informal venue in which they can discuss ideas, diagnose challenges, share innovations and network with peers. This session will share the best practices you need to create and maintain a successful CoE practice.
Business Process Automation and Data Processing WorkflowsMarlon Dumas
Presentation on Business Process Management Systems and Data Processing Workflow Systems delivered at the Italian Statistics Institute (IStat), 3 May 2018.
Orchestrator - Practical Approach to host UiPath OrchestratorVibhor Shrivastava
1. We are answering
2. We are answering Active\Passive
3. Walkthrough to set up Orchestrator with HAA in minutes on Azure PAAS
4. Setting Up Bot for High Availability
This document discusses the challenges of implementing an ERP system at Warid Telecom. It notes that Warid needs to be more responsive, flexible, and resilient to meet stakeholder expectations. Implementing an ERP system could help improve operational efficiency across various business functions. Some key challenges of ERP implementation include effectively changing employee behaviors, integrating data from all parts of the value chain, managing changes, and addressing the "knowing-doing gap". The document provides recommendations around ERP planning, availability checks, implementation approaches, and benefits of a successful first implementation.
This document provides a gap analysis checklist to help companies determine if their existing IT systems and business processes need to be upgraded. The checklist covers key areas like regulatory compliance, streamlining operations, decision making, collaboration, flexibility, and global operations. Completing the checklist identifies gaps between a company's current and desired future states. This will help indicate whether upgrading to a modern ERP system could help address business objectives.
This document discusses moving American Express' Pega testing towards a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) model. It outlines Cognizant's existing Pega testing footprint for Amex projects, the benefits of a TCoE for centralized testing, and key elements of a TCoE including standardized processes, tools, and a "core-flex" resourcing model. Establishing a Pega TCoE would optimize resource utilization, reduce costs, and institutionalize testing knowledge through a shared services approach.
Oracle Fusion consists of Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications. Fusion Middleware includes Oracle Application Server and other acquired technologies covering areas like BI, identity management, and SOA. Fusion Applications will eventually replace E-Business Suite by assimilating features from projects, financials, HCM, and CRM modules. Fusion Applications is built on Fusion Middleware using Oracle's Fusion Architecture. It includes modules for CRM, financials, HCM, procurement, PPM, SCM, setup, and GRC. Each module contains one or more Java applications deployed on Oracle WebLogic Server.
eCIO PPT Sunsetting strategy v 3 general distributionDavid Niles
This document provides an overview and framework for developing an application retirement and decommissioning strategy for a large-scale project. It discusses the objectives to understand application retirement efforts and illustrate the retirement process. The document outlines the approach, requirements, applications scheduled for retirement in waves, and provides a high-level schedule. It also discusses assumptions, scope, and background for the decommissioning project.
The pathway to the cloud has many different options and levers that customers can pull. This webinar walks customers through actual steps from creating a cloud adoption vision to actually building a migration roadmap with actionable guidance. We’ll go through proven migration patterns, methods and tooling that AWS has leveraged successfully with hundreds of Enterprise customers around the globe. Learn what challenges customers face when planning the migrations to cloud, and how they overcome them to minimize risk and accelerate the adoption.
Strawman - Electric networks in Great Britain today are facing unprecedented challenge from Climate, Carbon and Convergence issues. Some thoughts and considerations.
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Application decommissioning stop spending millions supporting legacy applicat...Flatirons Solutions®
Webinar slides describing the high costs of maintaining legacy applications and the opportunity made available by application decommissioning to free data from legacy apps, remain in compliance, and redirect valuable resources to strategic IT projects. Includes case studies based on EMC's InfoArchive platform.
Presented at Knapp Center Lecture Series.
As applications continue to migrate toward the web, mobile devices are becoming inextricably linked with our everyday lives. According to The Mobile Internet Report released by Morgan Stanley in December 2009, within five years, more users will connect to the web via mobile devices than desktop computers.
Adopting a mobile strategy for your business is inevitable. Your mobile strategy must have reaching your customers and your market as its central goal, and this doesn’t necessarily mean you need to develop an application. To develop a successful mobile strategy, there are several important elements to consider, including methods for connecting with a mobile audience, effective audience engagement, mobile platform differences and the impact this can have on market reach.
eCIO PPT Plan of Action for a Systems Integrations (SAP) ProjectDavid Niles
1. The document outlines the process for developing a systems integration plan for a large-scale integration program, including defining the purpose and approach, identifying challenges, and next steps.
2. It describes assessing over 35 applications for integration or decommissioning across various technologies and projects. Developing the plan involves mapping requirements, establishing a release schedule, and defining integration work packages.
3. Challenges include blending old and new processes, addressing various technologies and tools, and extracting functionality from applications to be decommissioned. The approach will utilize ASAP methodology and involve information discovery, blueprinting, and solution mapping.
This document discusses the importance for CIOs to streamline their IT infrastructure while focusing on upgrading key enterprise applications. It notes that application upgrades can disrupt business processes if not well planned. It also discusses the importance of consolidating both applications and IT infrastructure. The document then introduces the Solix Application Retirement Appliance, which allows companies to retire legacy applications and data in a simple six step process, while maintaining access to the legacy data and reducing storage needs.
Talend is an open source integration software provider specializing in data integration, master data management, data quality, big data integration, and enterprise application integration. It offers a platform and tools like Talend Data Integration and Talend Data Quality that help with Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) processes, ensuring data quality, and enabling integration across various data sources and targets. The presentation concluded with a live demo of Talend's enterprise service bus functionality for intelligent routing, mediation, and service enablement using open standards.
Best Practices for Decommission PSTs - EPC Group High Level OverviewEPC Group
The document outlines EPC Group's messaging roadmap and processes for transitioning from Exchange 2010 to SharePoint 2010. [1] Key considerations are creating a simple and reliable messaging solution with an easy transition for end-users. [2] The roadmap details how email older than various thresholds will be automatically migrated and purged from mailboxes over time. [3] It also describes the process for decommissioning personal storage table files by making them read-only and automatically deleting them after 13 months.
This document provides a summary of the BigData ecosystem. It lists various distributed filesystems, NoSQL databases, data models, distributed programming frameworks, data ingestion tools, scheduling tools, system development tools, service programming tools, and machine learning tools that are part of the BigData ecosystem. It also defines the size of bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, and exabytes. Some related links on open data, NoSQL databases, traditional databases vs NoSQL, and the role of SQL in big data are also included.
Application Rationalization and Portfolio Management solutionCarolyn Reid
The document outlines a process for optimizing an organization's IT portfolio through application rationalization. It involves analyzing applications based on criteria like performance, risk, business criticality and compliance to identify optimization opportunities. Applications are then scored and decisions made on consolidation, replacement or retirement. The process results in cost savings, improved efficiency and meeting business needs through eliminating redundancy, rationalizing applications and prioritizing high-value projects.
The document discusses how Talend can be used with big data to simplify ETL workflows. It states that Talend provides a graphical interface that allows users to design and run ETL jobs on Hadoop without writing code. Specific capabilities mentioned include using Talend to extract data from various sources, transform it using Hadoop technologies like Pig and Hive, and load the results into data stores. An example use case described is using Talend and Pig to analyze web logs from a bank to identify good locations for a marketing campaign.
How to create intelligent Business Processes thanks to Big Data (BPM, Apache ...Kai Wähner
BPM is established, tools are stable, many companies use it successfully. However, today's business processes are based on data from relational databases or web services. Humans make decisions due to this information. Companies also use business intelligence and other tools to analyze their data. Though, business processes are executed without access to this important information because technical challenges occur when trying to integrate big masses of data from many different sources into the BPM engine. Additionally, bad data quality due to duplication, incompleteness and inconsistency prevents humans from making good decisions. That is status quo. Companies miss a huge opportunity here!
This session explains how to achieve intelligent business processes, which use big data to improve performance and outcomes. A live demo shows how big data can be integrated into business processes easily - just with open source tooling. In the end, the audience will understand why BPM needs big data to achieve intelligent business processes.
Talend is a global leader in open source integration solutions. It offers a comprehensive SOA suite that provides capabilities across the full service lifecycle, including integration, enterprise service bus, BPM, registry/repository, security, and management functions. The suite is committed to open standards and delivers a proven best practice approach to implementing SOA strategies based on Talend's eight years of experience. It provides companies an advanced yet proven platform to address their SOA questions and benefit from Talend's position in the community and expertise in enterprise SOA environments.
The document discusses the first stage of an IT optimization methodology called Portfolio Rationalization. This stage involves inventorying the current application and technology portfolio, mapping applications to business capabilities, and analyzing the portfolio against criteria to identify opportunities for standardization, consolidation, and modernization. The goal is to rationalize the portfolio to reduce complexity, costs and risk while improving support for business strategies.
Introducing the Big Data Ecosystem with Caserta Concepts & TalendCaserta
This document summarizes a webinar presented by Talend and Caserta Concepts on the big data ecosystem. The webinar discussed how Talend provides an open source integration platform that scales to handle large data volumes and complex processes. It also overviewed Caserta Concepts' expertise in data management, big data analytics, and industries like financial services. The webinar covered topics like traditional vs big data, Hadoop and NoSQL technologies, and common integration patterns between traditional data warehouses and big data platforms.
The document discusses methods for assessing when equipment should be decommissioned and disposed of, including considering its structure, years of use, maintenance, spare parts availability, handling, technology changes, and obsolescence. It outlines when equipment becomes non-functional, obsolete, functional but obsolete, functional but hazardous, or functional but unnecessary. A condemnation committee can certify equipment as condemned, after which it can be finally disposed of through auction, buy back, transfer to another hospital, or scrapping. Disposal methods and how to avoid premature condemnation are also covered.
This document provides an overview of Talend's big data solutions. It discusses the drivers of big data including volume, velocity, and variety. It then describes the Hadoop ecosystem, including core components like HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, and HBase. The document outlines Talend's big data product strategy, including solutions for big data integration, manipulation, quality, and project management. It introduces Talend Open Studio for Big Data, an open source tool for designing Hadoop jobs with a graphical interface. Finally, it briefly discusses Talend's partnerships around Hadoop distributions.
Cloud computing provides IT resources and services over the Internet. There are three main service models - Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). SaaS provides applications to users while the provider manages the infrastructure. PaaS provides platforms for developers to create applications without worrying about infrastructure. IaaS provides basic computing and storage infrastructure for users to deploy and run software.
Maximizing ROI with Legacy Application MigrationMindfire LLC
A legacy application is a framework or system that is primarily old-fashioned or obsolete. These are frameworks, systems, or equipment that keeps being utilized regardless of their outmoded build. Usually, they’re on-premises applications or frameworks that organizations have been using and have used for a very long time. They usually include applications that run on old languages like COBOL or old operating systems. They can include anything from CRM tools to custom and industry-explicit applications.
Transformation of legacy landscape in the insurance worldNIIT Technologies
The document discusses the transformation of legacy systems in the insurance industry. Legacy systems present challenges like being difficult to change and update as they are based on older technologies. Insurance companies are transforming legacy systems to support new business models and customer needs. Common strategies for legacy transformation include modifying existing applications, replacing applications, or retiring applications when they are no longer needed. Successful legacy transformation depends on effectively migrating data and business rules to new systems.
The document discusses Workday's technology platform and development processes. It describes how Workday adopted a new architectural approach and development model compared to traditional enterprise applications. Some key points:
- Workday uses an in-memory metadata model and declarative development approach rather than traditional relational databases and procedural code.
- All application data, metadata, transactions, and requests are processed through centralized services for security, scalability, and continuous delivery of updates.
- Workday's approach aims to make applications easier for customers to use and own through continuous delivery, self-service configuration instead of custom code, and vendor management of the platform.
Simplifying Enterprise Application Retirement with Solix ExAPPS – Industry’s ...LindaWatson19
This document introduces the Solix ExAPPS, an appliance that simplifies retiring legacy applications. It discusses the challenges of application retirement, such as user resistance to change and the need to preserve access to application data. The Solix ExAPPS provides a plug-and-play solution that can migrate an application's data to its compressed storage. It requires no complex consulting and allows customers to easily retire low-hanging fruit applications.
Forrester Report: Master DevOps For Faster Delivery Of Software InnovationSEBASTIEN DENES
Modern applications and loosely coupled architectures allow organizations to deliver software faster. Loose coupling means applications can be developed and delivered in smaller increments with fewer dependencies. This reduces risk and allows teams to work independently and at their own pace. Automating processes like continuous integration, testing, deployment and monitoring further speeds up delivery while improving quality. Organizations must adopt DevOps practices and break down silos to fully realize the benefits of faster and more flexible application delivery.
The F5 Networks Application Services Reference Architecture (White Paper)F5 Networks
Build elastic, flexible application delivery fabrics that are ready to meet the challenges of optimizing and securing applications in a constantly evolving environment.
The F5 Networks Application Services Reference Architecture (White Paper)
Learn How to Maximize Your ServiceNow InvestmentStave
Understand how leading companies are adopting an aPaaS strategy
Learn the evolution of ServiceNow's platform capabilities
Assert IT's influence over shadow IT practices
How Agile Application Portfolio Rationalization Delivers Digital SuccessCognizant
Application portfolios benefit from frequent tweaks based on honest user feedback; this enables IT to provide the right mix of applications with the least delay and cost to advance business objectives.
This document discusses the need for application modernization to address changing business needs and technologies. It notes that 78% of enterprise applications will need changes in the next two years such as upgrades or replacements. Application modernization, which maintains and extends existing applications, is becoming a preferred approach over costly replacement. Modernizing applications allows organizations to create new apps focused on specific tasks for smartphones and tablets without replacing back-office systems, lowering costs and risks while improving productivity.
IT Cost Optimization POC Highlights: Creating Business Value from Software Us...Scalable Software
You probably know that some software at your organization is underused or unused. But did you know that the full extent of the waste can be almost invisible when usage is tracked conventionally?
Without an unconventionally rigorous, almost forensic level of real usage tracking, you are spending more than you should on software. Read how one company discovered that almost 30% of their applications were under-used or not used at all, using this unconventional approach.
Splice Machine Digital Transformation 2.0 white paperSyed Mahmood
This document discusses the evolution of digital transformation. Digital Transformation 1.0 involved automating manual processes and moving operations online. While cloud migration provided agility, true transformation requires modernizing applications to leverage new data sources and intelligence. Digital Transformation 2.0 requires transitioning from systems of record to systems of signals that can analyze real-time data using AI/ML. For companies to realize the benefits of DX 2.0, all applications must be modernized to ingest diverse data sources and embed intelligence. Approaches like lambda architecture are too complex, requiring specialized skills and loose coupling between systems. True transformation is achieved by modernizing applications themselves.
Checklist For Modernizing Your Legacy Application.pdfZoe Gilbert
Hereunder is a brand-new, popular checklist for modernizing your outdated applications, since IT industry releases new versions every year since technology is evolving and rendering the previous versions obsolete.
To benefit from the decrease in security concerns, system flexibility to new features, and boosted productivity, learn about common modernization tactics.
Leveraging Cloud for Non-Production EnvironmentsCognizant
Moving to the cloud not only enables application development and testing organizations to reduce capital outlays; it can also reduce IT cycle times while improving quality.
Get ahead of the cloud or get left behindMatt Mandich
An enterprise cloud computing strategy results in:
Broad consensus on goals and expected results of moving select processes to the cloud
Standardized, consistent approach to evaluating the benefits and challenges of cloud projects
Clear requirements for the negotiation and monitoring of partnerships with cloud service providers
Understanding and consensus on the enabling and managing role IT will play in future cloud initiatives
Goals and a roadmap for transforming internal IT from asset managers to service broker
IBM Offers ISVs a Fast Track for Virtual Appliance Deployment on New IBM Pure...benzfire
This document discusses IBM's program to help independent software vendors (ISVs) create virtual appliance versions of their software that are optimized to run on IBM's PureSystems converged infrastructure platforms. The program provides tools to help ISVs package their software along with required operating systems and middleware into preconfigured virtual appliances. This allows applications to be deployed much more quickly and easily on PureSystems, improving the customer experience. The document profiles three ISVs that have participated in the program and realized benefits like faster deployment times, reduced support costs, and improved application performance.
As the Vice President, Datacenter Architecture at Presidio, William Turner, PhD has more than 20 years of hands-on, full-project-cycle experience in strategizing, designing and deploying large-scale Fortune 500 networks and security solutions. His extensive background in banking, security,
and government has yielded several well regarded industry standards and noted reference models.
Dr. Turner envisions and drives a future in which sophisticated software provisions and de-provisions IT infrastructure automatically in response to business needs. The specialized appliances enterprises traditionally rely upon will be replaced by industry-standard hardware playing necessary roles on demand.
EAPJ conducted this interview from the perspective of an infrastructure architect considering a software-defined future for the networking, hosting and storage underlying a major upcoming application investment.
Thought Leader Interview: Dr. William Turner on the Software-Defined Future ...Iver Band
As the Vice President, Datacenter Architecture at Presidio,
William Turner, PhD has more than 20 years of hand-son,
full-project-cycle experience in strategizing, designing and
deploying large-scale Fortune 500 networks and security
solutions. His extensive background in banking, security,
and government has yielded several well regarded industry
standards and noted reference models.
Dr. Turner envisions and drives a future in which sophisticated software provisions and de-provisions IT infrastructure automatically in response to business needs. The specialized appliances enterprises traditionally rely upon will be replaced by industry-standard hardware playing necessary roles on demand.
EAPJ conducted this interview from the perspective of an infrastructure architect considering a software-defined future for the networking, hosting and storage underlying a
major upcoming application investment.
Solix EDMS and Oracle Exadata: Transitioning to the Private CloudFrank Morris
"Many companies have reached a critical point where their dependence on information technology and the internal IT organization’s ability to rapidly deliver new IT services are no longer in alignment. This white paper discusses how Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS) has been adapted for the cloud computing model and how it can assist organizations to make the transition to a private cloud such as Oracle Exadata and maintain efficient utilization of the cloud infrastructure over the long-term.
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The explosion of enterprise data is recognized as one of the most pressing challenges facing organizations today. This white paper examines how Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS) Managed Services deliver database archiving, data masking, test data management and application retirement – at a low monthly fee.
The document discusses the benefits of meditation for reducing stress and anxiety. Regular meditation practice can help calm the mind and body by lowering heart rate and blood pressure. Making meditation a part of a daily routine, even if just 10-15 minutes per day, can offer improvements to mood, focus, and overall feelings of well-being over time.
Data is the lifeblood of any organization, but too much data can slow application and reporting performance and tax IT resources. This white paper takes a high level look at the issues facing growing organizations and how enterprise data management, data archiving, and secure test and development solutions can ensure business performance and keep sensitive customer and company data out of the hands of unauthorized users.
"Database archiving can be an effective management tool, Running on the Oracle E-Business Suite, American Tire Distributors 3TB of
data made productivity suffer across the company. A planned hardware
upgrade from an old Unix system to a new Linux system put the spotlight on
the company’s data management problems and forced a solution.
Migration of the company’s database during a first-run test took seven days.
After much work, ATD got the migration test down to 60 hours, but the
timing was still far too long for the company’s comfort.
(Solix Mitigates the Problems, Solix EDMS Database Archiving Module, Test Data Management Module, Data Masking Module, Application Retirement, Options for Implementation)"
Diebold solix archiving (archive, data archiving)Frank Morris
Diebold implemented database archiving using Solix to reduce the size and improve performance of their aging 3TB Informix database supporting a Baan ERP. The goals were to keep the application stable until migrating to Oracle, improve availability and performance, and maintain historical data access. Solix customized their archiving templates for Baan which archived data from several modules. The project took several months and cost over $100k but achieved the goals and provided audit records and de-archiving capabilities. Lessons included properly scoping resource needs and ensuring key staff availability.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
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Free A4 downloadable and printable Cyber Security, Social Engineering Safety and security Training Posters . Promote security awareness in the home or workplace. Lock them Out From training providers datahops.com
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Skybuffer AI: Advanced Conversational and Generative AI Solution on SAP Busin...Tatiana Kojar
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With Skybuffer AI, various AI models can be integrated into a single communication channel such as Microsoft Teams. This integration empowers business users with insights drawn from SAP backend systems, enterprise documents, and the expansive knowledge of Generative AI. And the best part of it is that it is all managed through our intuitive no-code Action Server interface, requiring no extensive coding knowledge and making the advanced AI accessible to more users.
A Comprehensive Guide to DeFi Development Services in 2024Intelisync
DeFi represents a paradigm shift in the financial industry. Instead of relying on traditional, centralized institutions like banks, DeFi leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized network of financial services. This means that financial transactions can occur directly between parties, without intermediaries, using smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum.
In 2024, we are witnessing an explosion of new DeFi projects and protocols, each pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
In summary, DeFi in 2024 is not just a trend; it’s a revolution that democratizes finance, enhances security and transparency, and fosters continuous innovation. As we proceed through this presentation, we'll explore the various components and services of DeFi in detail, shedding light on how they are transforming the financial landscape.
At Intelisync, we specialize in providing comprehensive DeFi development services tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. From smart contract development to dApp creation and security audits, we ensure that your DeFi project is built with innovation, security, and scalability in mind. Trust Intelisync to guide you through the intricate landscape of decentralized finance and unlock the full potential of blockchain technology.
Ready to take your DeFi project to the next level? Partner with Intelisync for expert DeFi development services today!
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An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
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1. RETIRING LEGACY APPLICATIONS
Application Retirement
Road Map for Legacy Applications
• Reduce Cost • Maintain Data Access
Global Headquarters:
Solix Technologies, Inc.
4701 Patrick Henry Dr., Building 20, Santa Clara, CA 95054
www.solix.com
2. Retiring Legacy Applications
Streamlining Application Portfolios
ers, acquisitions or organic technology acquisition, potentially
diminishing or forcing out once core applications.
Application Retirement is a strategy to remove legacy applications from use while retaining access to the useful data contained in the legacy application. Retiring business applications
make sense when:
• Redundant systems exist within the organization; common among organizations that have grown through
mergers and acquisition
• Lower cost applications, technology platforms have
emerged
As technology becomes obsolete and organizations deploy
new applications, many enterprise applications wind up outliving their usefulness and become known as a “legacy application”
.
Every organization needs to be actively looking at their IT portfolios for applications, systems, and platforms that cost them
more to maintain than the value they are delivering. Technologies like the advent of the Internet are game changing events
for enterprises that can force a whole new way of information
access and delivery but new technologies and applications are
constantly forcing their way into organizations through merg-
• Legacy applications or databases are still in production
for which support has been discontinued
Multiple source applications impact the ability to meet regulatory or legal requirements due to the time needed to process a
request. Consolidating data and retiring legacy applications reduces the burden on IT resources to support legacy applications
that provide minimal business value to the organization. By
consolidating legacy data, line of business and IT resources are
freed from manually consolidating data, maintaining obsolete
technology, and risk of report consolidation and data analysis
errors can be reduced.
3. Retiring Legacy Applications
Enterprise Data Management and Application Retirement
Drivers for Application Retirement (Application Sunsetting)
As organizations grow, merge or consolidate operations, the
number of enterprise systems that IT departments support continues to grow. Efforts to reduce IT spend on existing infrastructure are bringing focus on application retirement as a way to
fund new projects or make existing IT budget go farther.
Cost Reduction
Gartner estimates that aging and less frequently used applications that should be retired contribute as much as 20% or more
to the overall IT organization resource baseline requirements.1
These applications consume computing resources, storage, and
manpower to maintain production status yet provide very little
business benefit to the organization. Often, applications that
used to support hundreds of users at rollout are now only being used by very few people in the organization. While the majority of IT budgets go to supporting existing applications and
licenses, very little attention is typically paid to the total cost of
maintaining a legacy application.
Vendor consolidation and trends in support and
resource availability
Oracle is the largest enterprise vendor consolidator, purchasing
43 applications since 2005. These acquisitions have significantly
added to Oracle’s portfolio in the last few years, including PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, CRM vendor Siebel, PLM vendor Agile Software, Retail systems vendor Retek, to name just a few. While SAP
has mainly pursued a build strategy for its ERP stack, Infor has
built its enterprise management platform through acquisition
of smaller vendors such as BaaN, e.piphany, GEAC, SSA Global,
Extensity and Systems Union among others. Companies that
have installed these applications need to evaluate continuing
with the consolidated platform or migrate to a different vendor.
Oracle Fusion
Oracle Fusion applications will most likely based on the current
E-Business suite data model with E-Business suite processes and
a new PeopleSoft influenced user interface. While functionality
will be the same or improved over existing PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, or Retek Applications, existing users will have to
migrate their data to new versions of existing applications or to
Fusion in a single or two-step process. Alternatively, some users
may choose to migrate to other ERP platforms.
Move to packaged applications
The nature of business applications is evolving such that the
trend for organizations is to move away from internally building
applications to packaged, modular application architectures. Enterprise applications from SAP and Oracle are leading the market with core applications, typically in the finance, supply chain
and customer areas and adding any number of bolt-on modules
to extend the platform’s reach beyond the original scope of the
application. These monolithic applications may one day continue to evolve as SOA architectures emerge. No matter what the
future, older, non-modular application stacks need to be evaluated for their long term future in the organization and a plan to
continue or retire the application must be developed.
Mainframe migration
Organizations may also be considering migrating proprietary
mainframe environments to newer, modern architectures to
lower both hardware and software costs associated with these
legacy systems. While very robust in nature, mainframe resourcing can be challenging. Organizations considering moving to
packaged, platform independent applications may see significant long term savings from retirement or data migration.
Determining Retirement Candidates
Enterprise applications can easily outlive their value to the organization. Functionality is often duplicated, developed on divisional basis, often containing the same customer information.
Changes in architectures, business processes, hardware platforms, software architectures or delivery systems can hasten the
demise of once useful enterprise applications. IT and business
inertia keep these applications in service long after their use to
the business has expired.
Considerations for Application Retirement
1. Evaluate the business need of the application
2. Evaluate product road map and supportability
3. Identify risks, benefits, cost of status quo or migration
4. Evaluate Retirement Plan with stake holders
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Evaluate the business need of the application
Prepare an audit of the information contained in the application and the value of the information to the organization. Record
whether the data is duplicated in other systems or if it is unique
to that system. Track how often is the data being accessed and by
whom. Some organizations questions to consider when evaluating retirement candidates are:
• Are those accessing the system casual users or are there
only a few power users who have frequent access?
• Is the application being maintained only for reporting?
• Is the value of the application in the data itself or in the
application?
• Could migrating the data out of a low-use application to
an open standard repository allow users to retain use and
access of the information while lowering software maintenance costs and license fees?
• Is the application a siloed application or is its data a critical
feed to another application?
A full audit of the application users and interdependencies needs
to be undertaken to develop the full picture of an application’s
readiness for retirement. Any retirement project should be a
partnership between the business, compliance, legal and IT staff.
Evaluate product road map and supportability
Research the company’s and analysts’ position on future product
direction and make a determination of the application’s upgrade
effort and long term.
• Will the evolution of the product line fit into your application and technology stack now and will the future version of product still work within your IT infrastructure and
technology direction?
• Are resources readily available to support the product or
have you become dependent on a few employees or consultants for support?
For Oracle E-Business users, the upgrade to Fusion will be an upgrade, for JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and others, it will be a migration or status quo.
Identify Cost, Benefits, and Risks
Retiring applications will require short term investments in resource time. The project would include a level of effort analysis,
plan on migrating data, shutdown of any legacy application, the
evaluation and acquisition of any additional tools that may be
needed to facilitate the data migration. The license and application data maintenance costs to maintain the existing application
must be calculated so the cost of project can be weighed against
the expected savings. The risks are two-fold. Doing nothing can
leave systems unsupported as operating systems and platforms
become obsolete, especially if an unexpected event occurs which
brings an outdated system down.
Evaluate Data Migration and Retirement Plans
The key element of a data migration project is to understand how
users expect to access the data after retirement. Depending on
the type of system and the latency of the data retrieval, decisions
need to be made about what data is to be migrated to the new
application, what data is to be archived into a common store and
what data can be thrown out all together. Age, relevancy, regulatory and legal requirements all come into play here. Migrating
data from one data model to another is always a problematic affair so the more planning and tiering of data done at this stage
will make data migration to the new application easier.
Application Retirement and Data
Management
Reducing cost, eliminating redundancy and lowering IT complexity and risk are all valid reasons for starting an application retirement project. However, shutting down an application and migrating the data to an alternate data store is not without risk. For
many organizations, maintaining an obsolete application may be
considered less risky than undertaking a migration project that
may upset a few key users of a legacy application.
Long Term Data Retention
The easiest way to retire an application would be to shut off access, pull the plug and forget that the application ever existed.
Unfortunately for IT organizations, the data probably may have
some value to the organization. Further still, there are a myriad of
government and civil regulations that require data be retained
from a minimum of 7 years for financial records to unlimited data
retention periods for many medical records. Basel II (Financial
Services), HIPAA (Healthcare), S-Ox are just a few regulations that
have data retention and access requirements.
Enterprise data archiving is a proven approach to archiving data
to an online active available archive while purging the same data
from production enterprise application. Enterprise archiving solutions offer key features to ensure referential integrity of data
during the archive process while maintaining data access in a
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cost-effective storage platform. If data retention policies are required in your industry, consider an enterprise archiving solution
to begin institution best practices in Information Life cycle Management.
Data Retrieval
Along with long term data retention policies, organizations are
required to maintain data in the same context and meaning of the
original use. Litigation and new eDiscovery requirements add to
the burden of data retention and retrieval. Data that is migrated
to a new application, say from a homegrown General Ledger (GL)
application to a packaged application such as Oracle E-Business
Suite, will naturally retain the business context and structure of
a GL application but when data is migrated from legacy application to application independent stores such as a data warehouses or data marts, maintaining business context with the data
becomes more difficult. In that case, Business Intelligence (BI) reports generated from the original applications can be deployed
on the independent archive or data store but still must yield the
same result.
Enterprise data management provides archiving of business application data to almost any RDMS or XML, on different operating
systems, databases with the ability to subset or de-archive the
data as needed. Data access is maintained through standard BI
tools.
Data Migration Challenges
A major issue for data migration is the effort associated with the
migration project, downtime associated with a migration, and the
data migration priority when compared to other projects on the
docket. With many organizations running worldwide operations
24/7 there is little or no available downtime. Even with minor updates, there is no application migration that does not carry some
risk. Unexpected downtime in a global corporation can result in
significant business risk. Other concerns include data corruption,
application performance, network slowdowns, and compatibility.
To reduce risk, many migrations are performed on weekends, increasing overtime costs or IT staff dissatisfaction. As the volume
of data that has to be migrated increases, so does the risk associated with migration in terms of down time and data corruption.
Inaccessibility to the Data
Once applications are decommissioned, unless reports have been
replicated in a new system, data is not available in the original
context. For sensitive or data subject to government or legal sei-
zure, maintaining access in the original context is a major requirement. This means that extra time and effort needs to be added to
the scope of the project ensuring that the replicated reports are
in fact accurate and exact. Until validation has been completed
in its entirety, the legacy system cannot be shutdown.
Road map for Retiring Enterprise
Applications
Assess the data and application environment
Unlike upgrades, application retirement results in the shutdown
of the application that contains business context that needs to
be replicated in the new application or common data store. Thorough evaluations are needed of both power and casual users and
any shared uses of the data so business continuity is maintained
after application shutdown. Any application retirement project
should be viewed as a partnership between the line of business
and IT to identify and eliminate any data dependencies. Finally,
legal and procurement should review license, privacy and maintenance agreements for the retiring application and what, if any,
additional licenses may be required when users are migrated
over to the new system.
Application retirement may be a resource intensive activity and
specialized skills may be needed to map the data from one application to another. Staff maintaining the existing application
will need to be retrained or re-purposed when the application is
shut down. The legacy app DBA’s will be critical to the mapping
and shutdown process so care needs to be taken as the projects
progress to alleviate job anxiety.
Maintain accessibility to the data
The primary reason for migrating data rather than just purging or
archiving offline is because there is a real-time or quasi-real-time
access requirement. If that is the case, data access must be maintained no matter what the destination target is, whether going
from Baan to E-Business Suite or other ERP to Oracle or MySQL
database. Deploying migration tools helps by speeding the data
migration process while reducing risk associated with manual
processes. These tools can help identify the database schemas,
application logic, dependencies and data usage of both the legacy application and target, reducing the manual mapping effort
from source to target. Utilizing a tool with a common metadata
repository is critical to maintaining perspective and is essential
to success in migrating data from one application to another. By
being able to read and store the metadata for the application
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data model, the tables, links and joins in a central location for
source and target, efficient data mappings can be achieved. Migrating data saves application maintenance and resources costs
while maintaining data in the original context needed for both
business and compliance needs.
Archive the data before migration
Most analyst agree that 80% of information in any given database is under-utilized or of little value to the organization. Utilizing an archiving and migration platform, IT departments have the
option to archive the majority of legacy data to a common data
store and migrate the most recent, mission critical information to
the new application. By migrating a smaller data set, downtime
and complexity is reduced and under-utilized data does not burden the new production application.
Migrate and Shutdown the Application
Once the data migration is complete and tested, final shutdown
of the application can occur. Build and process documents should
be archived and steps taken to secure any sensitive information
and that back-up copies of the application and data are stored
adequately in case of an unexpected need.
Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration
Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration offers organizations
an efficient project accelerator for migrations of any nature including:
• Data migration across applications: Legacy, Mainframe,
BaaN, JDE, PeopleSoft, Siebel Oracle, SAP, custom and other legacy applications. while allowing changes to chart of
accounts, organization structure, costing methods, etc.
• Data migration across operating systems: Windows, Linux,
Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) while allowing changes to Technology Stack, Middleware etc.
• Data migration across databases: Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server while carefully accommodating changes
to Data Types
historical data on lower cost storage tiers and the data that is no
longer needed to be accessed on offline storage such as optical,
magnetic, and similar media. With Solix Application Sunsetting
and Migration, enterprises can:
• Configure metadata mapping for all major ERP’s and custom applications
• Save considerable effort during analysis and design phases with pre-populated data mapping for popular ERP Applications
• Leverage pre-built control, audit and error handling resubmission for post-processing corrections
• Consolidate instances into a single global archive repository
Ensure Customizations Remain Intact
Companies deploy several customizations to packaged ERP and
CRM applications that perform their business specific processes.
This requires that the necessary customizations are fully compliant and successfully upgraded for compatibility with new data
model. The complexity of the customizations upgrade increases
in situations where interfaces to third party systems are maintained. Thus, successful application and customizations upgrade
are the result of a solid upgrade strategy, which cannot be overlooked. With Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration, enterprises can:
• Identify and maintain a repository of customizations
• Maintain a repository of metadata changes between previous application versions to the latest application release
• Perform an online impact analysis
• Intelligently identify and recommend changes in the customization code required using the metadata knowledge
base repository
• Provide the Migration Effort Estimate
• Automate migration of upgraded customizations from
source to target environment
Ensure Seamless Data Migration
Benefits of Solix Application Sunsetting
Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration utilizes the archive
engine of Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite instead of
traditional ETL tools. This allows faster, seamless, and controlled
data migration while implementing Information Lifecycle Management by storing current data on high availability storage tiers,
Improve Operational Efficiency: The need for migration of applications
in enterprises arises from changes in business demands or technology challenges to improve operational efficiency and to manage risk. Addressing the growing need of enterprise application
networks to migrate data across applications, protocols and pro-
7. Retiring Legacy Applications
prietary data structures, Solix delivers an intelligent enterprise
data migration solution that enables seamless data migration
across enterprise applications.
• Reduce Costs: A structured approach is the key element of
the Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration methodology with measurable performance milestones, which may
be tailored to meet clients’ pre-established standards. To
provide an effective enterprise evolution strategy, Solix
Application Sunsetting and Migration helps customers
identify the right road map and strategy to migrate legacy
systems at lower costs and leverage the benefits of years
of migration experience on multiple platforms that reduce
time to market and maximize productivity.
• Ensure SOX Compliance: In order to ensure compliance with
regulatory mandates, enterprises need to address both
data retention and data integrity requirements. With Solix
Application Sunsetting and Migration, enterprises can retire legacy applications and consolidate their IT infrastructure without the risk of data loss.
• Fast and Secure: Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration
offers rich functionality that allows fast and secure data
migration to the newer versions with simplified, graphically represented data mapping and conversion capabilities.
Its user-friendly and system-independent framework enables clients to switch from existing ERP applications and
business processes to other applications seamlessly.
Solix Database Archiving
Solix provides advanced database archiving for enterprise applications tightly integrated with solutions from Oracle, Baan, SAP,
and others running custom applications. Customers benefit from
pre-packaged archiving solutions through reduced implementation time, reduced risk through certified integrated solutions, and
lower maintenance overhead because archive data is in sync and
completely available through native Application user interfaces.
With Solix Database Archiving, enterprises have the tools to:
• Classify data based on its business value and regulatory
impact for tiered storage and information security. Leverage Oracle certified trigger and non-trigger archiving
methods or transaction-based or table-based archiving.
• Enable compliance with an archiving strategy that protects data integrity in all instances eliminating the risk of
data loss while ensuring your ability to meet data retention requirements.
• Implement active archiving to ensure simultaneous access
to data from the native application for more frequently accessed data and XML archiving for long term data retention needs
• Maintain seamless data access to archive data through native Oracle Applications interfaces.
• Leverage a metadata driven approach for defining data
management policies, reducing overhead costs associated with data management solutions
• Complete integrated de-archive, space re-claimer and
patch synchronization utilities to assist in data management processes
Conclusion
When evaluating options for application retirement and data
migration, take the time necessary to evaluate vendor solutions
– spend time to understand what the venders offer and how they
can be used in your environment based on the type of data to be
migrated and sunset and how end users may access the data.
For more information on Solix, its products and services please
visit www.solix.com or call (888) GO-SOLIX.
8. Solix Technologies
Working with Leading Organizations Across the Globe
Solix Technologies works with organizations all over the world in manufacturing, telecom, retail, education, healthcare, financial
services and government. Some of our clients include:
• Arqiva
• Hindalco
• Steris
• Dept. of Health & Human Services
• Korea Telecom
• Helen of Troy
• Finisar
• LG Electronics,
• Rediff
• Forbes Marshall
• Lakshmi Machine Works
• TIBCO
• Helen of Troy
• Ministry of Defense
• Traco
Fast Facts
Founded: 2001
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California
Supported Applications:
Supported Databases:
Hardware Platforms:
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle
• HP-UX
• Oracle PeopleSoft
• IBM DB2
• IBM AIX
• Oracle JD Edwards
• IBM Informix
• Sun Solaris
• BaaN
• MySQL
• Linux
• Custom & 3rd party Applications
• MS SQL Server
• Other RDBMS with JDBC driver
support
Our Partners:
Solix partners with the leading application and storage providers to provide integrated solutions for today’s heterogeneous environments. In addition, we work with global and local resellers and system integrators located around the world.
Technology Partners:
Local Resellers:
• 3S Soft (South Korea)
• EMC
• SAP
• Tier 1 Inc. (US)
• Google
• Sun Microsystems
• Inatech (UK)
• IBM
• Sybase
• Graeme V Jones & Associates
(Australia)
• Microsoft
• NetApp
Global Resellers & System
Integrators:
• Oracle
• IBM
• Red Hat
• Wipro