Data growth is a significant challenge for most Fortune 1000 companies. The drivers of data growth are organic business growth, mergers and acquisitions, data retention requirements and something the author of this white paper refers to as the “Data Multiplier Effect.”
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Top 10 guidelines for deploying modern data architecture for the data driven ...LindaWatson19
Enterprises are facing a new revolution, powered by the rapid adoption of data analytics with modern technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence (A).
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ERP solutions can help you in transforming your business and its processes by embracing the ever changing global business environment, with confidence and poise.
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Enterprise Information Management: Strategy, Best Practices & Technologies on...FindWhitePapers
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Enterprise Information Management: In Support of Operational, Analytic, and G...FindWhitePapers
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DataEd Webinar: Reference & Master Data Management - Unlocking Business ValueDATAVERSITY
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Originally Published: Jan 21, 2015
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Lead Your Data Revolution - How to Build a Foundation of Trust and Data Gover...DATAVERSITY
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<p>New research from Experian shows that despite many ongoing data initiatives, 69 percent of organizations struggle to be data-driven. The struggles are real. Companies face a large data debt, look at data projects through a siloed lens, and still have a large volume of inaccurate data. In fact, 65 percent report inaccurate data is undermining key initiatives. <br></p>
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<p>However, the tide is turning. Businesses are starting to adopt data enablement, or a practice of empowering a larger group of individuals within the business to understand and harness the power of data and analytics. Companies that empower wider data usage are better able to comply with regulations, improve decision-making, and, of course, deliver a superior customer experience. Are these the results you’re striving for? </p>
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Enterprise Information Management Strategy - a proven approachSam Thomsett
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Your information can be one of your greatest assets - helping you stay on top of regulatory requirements, close to customers, and ahead of the competition. Organizations that pay attention to their data will be the ones to survive and thrive. So how do you obtain a complete view of your information when it is scattered across silos? Or integrate data from structured and unstructured data sources? Or help reduce the risk of inaccurate reporting? And how do you manage your information more effectively to help keep costs from spiraling out of control?
If implementing data governance sounds like a 5-year plan involving more meetings than you can stand, then this is the session for you. Whether you are just getting started in your governance initiatives, or whether your company is struggling to reach *success* with governance, we can help. In this session, we’ll discuss common pitfalls of data governance programs. Most of our time, however, will be spent on how to start small to ensure future success. In this session, you'll learn these skills: - identify good target projects - shape lean teams to accomplish the work - identify which technologies will accelerate your project - prove the value of the initiative to your organization.
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Data tends to pile up and can be rendered unusable or obsolete without careful maintenance processes. Reference and Master Data Management (MDM) has been a popular Data Management approach to effectively gain mastery over not just the data but the supporting architecture for processing it. This webinar presents MDM as a strategic approach to improving and formalizing practices around those data items that provide context for many organizational transactions—its master data. Too often, MDM has been implemented technology-first and achieved the same very poor track record (one-third succeeding on-time, within budget, and achieving planned functionality). MDM success depends on a coordinated approach typically involving Data Governance and Data Quality activities.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand foundational reference and MDM concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
- Understand why these are an important component of your Data Architecture
- Gain awareness of Reference and MDM Frameworks and building blocks
- Know what MDM guiding principles consist of and best practices
- Know how to utilize reference and MDM in support of business strategy
Originally Published: Jan 21, 2015
The size and complexity of data make it difficult for companies to unlock the true value of their data. IBM Information Integration Governance can improve data quality, protect sensitive data, and reduce cost and risk. Free up your resources and get more out of your data.
Lead Your Data Revolution - How to Build a Foundation of Trust and Data Gover...DATAVERSITY
<!-- wp:paragraph -->
<p>Becoming a data-driven organization is something many companies aspire to, but few are able to obtain. Let’s face it: Data is confusing. It is complicated, dirty, and spread out all over a business. While companies are making big investments in Data Management projects, only a few are seeing the payoff. </p>
<!-- /wp:paragraph -->
<!-- wp:paragraph -->
<p>New research from Experian shows that despite many ongoing data initiatives, 69 percent of organizations struggle to be data-driven. The struggles are real. Companies face a large data debt, look at data projects through a siloed lens, and still have a large volume of inaccurate data. In fact, 65 percent report inaccurate data is undermining key initiatives. <br></p>
<!-- /wp:paragraph -->
<!-- wp:paragraph -->
<p>However, the tide is turning. Businesses are starting to adopt data enablement, or a practice of empowering a larger group of individuals within the business to understand and harness the power of data and analytics. Companies that empower wider data usage are better able to comply with regulations, improve decision-making, and, of course, deliver a superior customer experience. Are these the results you’re striving for? </p>
<!-- /wp:paragraph -->
<!-- wp:paragraph -->
<p>Join us to uncover new research from more than 500 Data Management practitioners as we take a deep dive into:</p>
<!-- /wp:paragraph -->
<!-- wp:list -->
<ul><li>The top challenges in becoming a data-driven organization </li><li>Trends and the rise of data enablement </li><li>The profile of a mature organization </li><li>Tips for how you can adopt data enablement practices</li></ul>
<!-- /wp:list -->
Enterprise Information Management Strategy - a proven approachSam Thomsett
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Slides: Taking an Active Approach to Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
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Bob Seiner will join Riot Games’ Chris Kudelka, Technical Product Manager, and Michael Leslie, Senior Data Governance Architect, and Alation’s John Wills, VP of Professional Service, for an inside look at Data Governance at one of the world’s leading gaming companies.
Join this webinar to learn:
• How Riot Games is implementing Non-Invasive Data Governance
• How this new approach to Data Governance helps to drive the business
• How the Alation Data Catalog helps Riot Games create the foundation for guiding accurate, well-governed data use
As firms move from siloed, transaction-oriented systems to more integrated,
socially aware ones, they will face challenges related to customer data. “Big data”
is characterized by increases in data volume, velocity, variety, and variability. To
improve customer engagement, companies must invest in solutions to effectively
manage big data.
Every now and then something comes along that has the potential to change the face of business as we know it. Currently big data is being touted as that thing, and CIOs everywhere need to get a grip on what it is and how it can benefit their company.
Companies from across sectors are experiencing exponential growth in data as social interactions, rich media and a variety of devices generate new content. A tidal wave... of digital data is getting created through emails, instant messaging, survey videos, images, RFID tags, web text, blogs, geo-location devices, collaboration platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and so many other sources.
Big Data Trends and Challenges Report - WhitepaperVasu S
In this whitepaper read How companies address common big data trends & challenges to gain greater value from their data.
https://www.qubole.com/resources/report/big-data-trends-and-challenges-report
Karya develops mobile application services that fits the unique needs of your business. Our Mobile Application Services helps the users to better utilize the power of Mobile Technology.
We know what it takes to solve our clients’ biggest challenges, and we’ve spent the last 50 years delivering software that is fueled by expertise, built for change, and ready for work.
Becoming an analytics-driven organization helps companies reduce costs, increase
revenues and improve competitiveness, and this is why business intelligence and
analytics continue to be a top priority for CIOs. Many business decisions, however,
are still not based on analytics, and CIOs are looking for ways to reduce time to value
for deploying business intelligence solutions so that they can expand the use of
analytics to a larger audience of users.
Companies are also interested in leveraging the value of information in so-called big
data systems that handle data ranging from high-volume event data to social media
textual data. This information is largely untapped by existing business intelligence
systems, but organizations are beginning to recognize the value of extending the
business intelligence and data warehousing environment to integrate, manage, govern
and analyze this information.
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Estuate - Control Application Data Growth
1. Control Application Growth
Before it Controls Your Business
Thank you for downloading this white paper. Data growth is a significant challenge for most
Fortune 1000 companies. The drivers of data growth are organic business growth, mergers and
acquisitions, data retention requirements and something the author of this white paper refers to
as the “Data Multiplier Effect.”
Too much data can result in data cholesterol, which has the impact of slowing processes down;
it clogs the arteries of the business.
Throwing more hardware and storage at the problem has been the standard approach for the
past decade. But, data volumes are so large now that there are costly business impacts across
the company that more hardware simply won’t address.
We believe this white paper will be valuable to you because it outlines the drivers of data growth
and explains the consequences of uncontrolled data growth. More importantly, it demonstrates
how to take control of application growth, and shares examples of how other companies have
achieved amazing results by tackling this problem.
About Estuate
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Estuate is a global information technology services company
that specializes in assisting companies to establish and improve enterprise data management
strategies and best practices.
Estuate is IBM’s go-to partner for the implementation IBM® Optim Solutions for custom
applications, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel and JD Edwards. We have expertise
on distributive platforms and IBM mainframes. Estuate is a one of the early partners involved in
Oracle to DB2 migration program. We work closely with IBM account teams to meet our mutual
clients' Enterprise Data Management needs.
For more information, please contact
Marc Hebert
Estuate’s COO
marc@estuate.com
510-468-7132
www.estuate.com
2.
3. Control application data growth before it controls your business
2
Executive summary
Contents
Information is the lifeblood of business. Corporate strategy and planning,
2 Executive summary operations, decision-making, marketing, selling, customer satisfaction and
3 What has driven application data business growth all hinge on accurate, available information. In their quest for this
growth? accuracy and availability, in the 1990s and early part of this century, companies
Organic business growth invested significantly in enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship
Mergers and acquisitions management (CRM) and other applications to collect information from a variety
Data Multiplier Effect of sources to support business operations. This information has been extremely
Data retention regulations valuable over the years.
6 What are the consequences of
uncontrolled data growth? As time has passed, the information collected has grown by leaps and bounds.
Increased IT complexity, risks and costs Business growth, mergers and acquisitions, data retention requirements and the
Diminished service levels Data Multiplier Effect have resulted in a complex data landscape characterized by
Inadequate disaster recovery massive data volume and hidden relationships.
8 How can you take control of application
Like any other asset, data must be well managed if it is to continue to deliver
data growth?
business value. This is becoming more difficult given unchecked data growth
11 IBM delivers proven integrated data
and distribution. What might once have been viewed as an effective strategy for
management capabilities
IBM InfoSphere Discovery managing enterprise application data, however, is probably no longer able to protect
IBM Optim Data Growth organizations from the negative effects of runaway data growth.
Managing enterprise data throughout its
life cycle with IBM solutions What are these effects? The most obvious are complexity and risk, along with
17 Managing data growth – real world storage and management costs. Data that has accumulated at a significant rate is
examples highly distributed over multiple applications, databases and platforms creating
19 Conclusion: Manage enterprise data complicated data relationships that are difficult to define, understand, control
throughout its life cycle with IBM and house. Also, managing years of historical data in production databases can
solutions impact service levels and disaster recovery initiatives. Expanding online and batch
processing windows, along with routine maintenance tasks, takes much more time
and can reduce application availability significantly.
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This white paper describes some of the ways that organizations can address data
growth issues with the power of integrated data management. Integrated data
management helps support your information governance initiatives, simplify your
IT infrastructure, support business continuity and increase the business value of
your enterprise applications.
Companies need capabilities for identifying data assets and relationships, assessing
data growth and implementing tiered storage strategies— capabilities that integrated
data management can provide. It is important to classify enterprise data, understand
data relationships and define service levels. Database archiving has proven effective
in managing continued application data growth especially when it is combined with
data discovery.
In particular, the combination of IBM® InfoSphere™ Discovery and the IBM® Optim™
Data Growth Solution provides proven capabilities for classifying, controlling and
managing enterprise data cost-effectively throughout the data life cycle. With the
capabilities that IBM InfoSphere and IBM Optim offer for aligning integrated data
management with business objectives, your organization will be better positioned to
archive data effectively, improve service levels, reduce risk and control costs.
What has driven application data
growth?
Many factors have caused enterprise application data to accumulate at an almost
unbelievable rate. And this growth is expected to continue. IDC estimates that 45
GB of data currently exists for each person on the planet: that’s a mind-blowing
281 billion gigabytes in total. While a mere 5 percent of that data will end up in
enterprise data servers, it is forecast to grow at a staggering 60 percent per year,
resulting in 14 exabytes of corporate data by 20111. So, what are some of the
underlying factors that have driven application data growth?
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Organic business growth Organic business growth is the growth that occurs when companies increase output
and enhance sales, bringing about profits generated in the company. This growth
also generates data— lots of it — as a natural part of the daily business activities
related to heightened productivity and more sales. Data from ERP and CRM
systems plays a big role in this growth, but new business intelligence, planning,
analysis and performance management applications are also significant players in
the data explosion. Put all of these factors together, and it is quite possible that your
organization’s systems are collecting millions of new transactions with countless new
relationships every day!
Mergers and acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions have also driven data growth. Over the past decade,
businesses increasingly have been using mergers and acquisitions to expand and
increase market share. As a result, the organization inherits the applications of the
acquired company — and all of the associated enterprise data.
Data Multiplier Effect Data duplication has significantly contributed to growth statistics. Cloning or
copying a production database to support various other functions in an organization
or for application development and testing initiatives is a common business
practice. Organizations maintain several backup copies of critical data or implement
mirrored databases to provide assurance against data loss. Then there are the
disaster recovery plans that require data duplication to store critical data in an
alternate location. All of this duplication has created what is known as the “Data
Multiplier Effect.”
As data is duplicated, storage and maintenance costs increase proportionally. The
Data Multiplier Effect is the result of multiplying every gigabyte (GB) of data in
a production database by the number of replicated copies. The resulting figure
represents the company’s total data burden— and it is usually a higher number than
managers expect and often not even calculated as part of data growth measures
because it is not “new.”
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For example, suppose that a modestly sized production database contains 200
GB of data. When the production database is copied for backup, disaster recovery,
testing, development and quality control, the total data burden increases from 200
GB to 1200 GB, or 1.2 terabytes (TB). This is illustrated in Figure 1.
Actual Data Burden = Size of production database + all replicated clones
200 GB Production 200 GB Test
200 GB Backup 200 GB Development
1200 GB Total
al
200 GB Disaster 200 GB Quality
Recovery Control
Figure 1. The Data Multiplier Effect is the result of multiplying every GB of data in a production environment
by the number of replicated copies.
Data retention regulations Compounding data growth challenges are the global data retention regulations
that require the management and storage of different types of data for extended
periods of time. Corporate policy or government regulations often require that
data remain easily accessible for specified periods of time and sometimes specify
disposal requirements. Some of these policies and laws are intended to preserve
the accuracy and transparency of business records to prevent accounting scandals.
Companies might need to protect corporate interests by retrieving historical records
to satisfy audit inquiries and resolve claims. Retention requirements carry strict
penalties for non-compliance.
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In the U.S., some of the most commonly recognized regulations are HIPAA
(the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), which requires that
healthcare organizations retain original medical records for a minimum of five
years and in many cases, decades, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires that
corporate accountants retain specific records for a minimum of five years. There
are many others— in 2008, there were 10,000 federal, state and local regulations
governing the preservation of data— and that was before the financial crisis. More
are sure to follow.
These regulations are designed to specify the appropriate standards of care for
managing and retaining corporate information. Organizations are required to
maintain critical data, keep it accessible and satisfy the demand for documented
authenticity and accuracy of their records. This has contributed significantly to data
growth.
What are the consequences of
uncontrolled data growth?
Your applications are acquiring more data than ever before. On top of years of
collecting data from transaction-intensive and customer-facing applications, you
now have business intelligence and business analytics applications adding to the
accumulation and creating more and new data relationships. Because you rely
on these applications to support your business operations, managing an ever-
increasingly complex data landscape is absolutely necessary for controlling costs,
improving customer satisfaction and enhancing decision making. Otherwise, your
business operations, your profitability and your ability to maintain a competitive
advantage will be adversely affected.
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The potential consequences of uncontrolled data growth can affect all areas of
your enterprise, making it difficult for you to complete critical business processes
and meet your business objectives. Without an effective strategy for managing
enterprise application data, it becomes more difficult to address critical business
issues, including meeting information governance requirements, controlling IT
infrastructure costs and ensuring business continuity.
Increased IT complexity, risks and costs Accumulating vast amounts of application data adds complexity, risk and cost to
your business. As the number of applications that use and access data grows into
“enterprise systems,” a complicated data ecosystem is created with numerous
connections and relationships, many of which are hidden or not understood. This
has created a whole new level of complexity and created an additional challenge for
managing data— if you don’t understand your data, you can’t control it.
In addition, unchecked data growth slows transaction processing and increases the
time it takes to perform routine maintenance. An overburdened IT infrastructure
trying to access data that is widely distributed in applications, databases, systems
and platforms places a strain on capacity, slows operations and jeopardizes
customer satisfaction. Boosting processing capacity and tuning the database can
provide some relief, but only temporarily.
The cost of storing your data also increases substantially. The Data Multiplier
Effect is in full force. Not only must you expand storage capacity for transaction
processing and business intelligence, but you must also increase capacity for all
cloned environments. Purchasing additional storage in general is a small percentage
of the storage costs. Managing the storage is where the real money is spent and
it leaves many companies in a perpetual game of catch-up. An organization can
spend millions of dollars annually on overall storage costs. None of which addresses
the root cause of the problem— rapid, uncontrolled data growth.
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Diminished service levels Maintaining databases that contain years of historical data spread all over your
organization slows response time and impedes access to current information. With
too much information to sift through, routine reports take longer to run. Business
analysis queries also require more time to complete, limiting your ability to make
accurate, timely decisions.
Continued uncontrolled data growth affects functional processes, such as
financial period closeouts or delivery scheduling. Service levels decline, eroding
the customer loyalty you have worked so hard to develop. Backup and recovery
windows are stretched to the point where system availability is seriously threatened.
Upgrade and migration projects are more likely to cause costly business disruptions.
Without a method for managing ongoing data growth, it becomes increasingly
difficult to achieve your business objectives.
Inadequate disaster recovery Disaster recovery is a high organization priority especially in the wake of the man-
made and natural disasters of this decade. When disaster strikes, the key strategy
is to get your most important systems operational as quickly as possible. But when
you have overloaded databases, all of the data (both current and historical) must
be restored just to resume processing for today’s transactions. When historical
information is stored with current information, the time to complete the recovery
process can increase by hours or even days.
How can you take control of
application data growth?
Your enterprise applications simply must deliver measurable business value. So,
how can you manage data growth and capitalize on your investment? The answer
rests in understanding your data and its relationships and then aligning continuous
control of your application data with your business objectives. Both are possible
with integrated data management.
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Integrated data management aligns application data management with business
objectives, helping to optimize performance, control costs and reduce risks. It
includes data discovery and archiving capabilities, so you can identify data and its
relationships in disparate systems, segregate historical from current data and store it
securely and cost-effectively.
The following capabilities are necessary for effective integrated data management:
• Assess application data growth and tiered storage strategies. With proven
capabilities for assessing your data, you can easily identify the applications
where data is accumulating the fastest. Gaining a complete understanding of
which areas are accumulating the most information allows you to apply the most
effective storage strategy. Assessing your data enables you to be proactive with
integrated data management so you can identify and address potential problems
before they impair business results.
• Identify data assets and discover data relationships. You cannot manage data
if you do not understand it, so it is critical that you first document your existing
data landscape using data discovery. Data discovery analyzes data values and data
patterns to identify the relationships that link disparate data elements into logical
units of information, or “business objects” (such as customer, patient or invoice).
These business objects provide essential input for archiving.
• Classify data and define service levels. After you have discovered and
analyzed your data relationships and business objects, you can classify each type
of data record or business object and define the appropriate level of performance
for each type. For example, current transactions are the highest priority, often
requiring sub-second throughput. Data with a lower service requirement can be
safely moved to a somewhat slower, but less expensive environment.
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• Initiate archiving as a best practice. Archiving capabilities are an essential
part of an integrated data management solution for controlling data growth.
Database archiving enables you to segregate and remove historical data safely
from the production environment, freeing valuable capacity for priority business
needs. When you implement a policy-driven archiving strategy, based on the age,
usage and status of the data, you are able to manage each class of data according
to its unique service requirements.
• Store enterprise data cost-effectively. Storing archived data according to its
evolving business value is a logical component of an integrated data management
strategy. Take three-tier classification, for example. Current transactions are main-
tained in high-speed, primary storage. Reporting data is relocated to mid-tier
storage. Reference data is retained on a secure WORM (Write Once, Read Many)
device, keeping it available if an audit request should arise. When you implement
a tiered storage strategy, you can reclaim capacity and maximize the value of
your existing storage infrastructure. Storage alone is only part of the answer. The
combination of an archiving and storage strategy ensures that the right data is in
the right place, retaining access to the information in a way that will comply with
regulatory requirements.
• Promote data accessibility. Decision makers must have access to data, whether
it is current or historical. With a comprehensive integrated data management
solution, those decision makers can access the right information at the right time.
Authorized business users must be able to query and browse all active, inactive
and reference data. Reliable access makes it possible to generate reports and
respond quickly to audit and discovery requests. If additional business processing
becomes a requirement, you must be able to restore archived transactions in
bulk or individually as required.
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• Manage data retirement. It is imperative that organizations control the retirement
process to help ensure that data is eliminated at the end of the required retention
period. Effective integrated data management makes it possible to automate both
retention and retirement, while still offering the capability to remove data manu-
ally. Applying suitable and secure methods for data disposal allows you to prevent
your information assets from becoming liabilities.
IBM delivers proven integrated
data management capabilities
You invest millions of dollars in your enterprise applications and the supporting
infrastructure to promote optimal operating performance, improve decision-making
and gain a competitive advantage. IBM provides integrated data management
solutions that can help you derive the most business value for your enterprise.
IBM InfoSphere Discovery IBM InfoSphere Discovery prepares you with the information you need about
your data so that you are ready for archiving. InfoSphere Discovery automates the
identification and definition of data relationships in the complex, heterogeneous
environments prevalent in IT today. Covering every kind of data relationship — from
simple to complex— InfoSphere Discovery provides a 360° view of your data assets
by analyzing the data itself.
Without an automated process to identify data relationships and define business
objects, organizations can spend months performing manual analysis— with no
assurance of completeness or accuracy. InfoSphere Discovery, on the other hand,
automatically and accurately identifies relationships and defines business objects in
a fraction of the time required using manual or profiling approaches.
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Standard relationships are defined directly to your database catalog. In more
complicated cases, however, data relationships are not clearly visible. Application-
defined relationships, for instance, are not contained in the database catalog but
instead are enforced through the processing logic of the application itself. In other
situations, complex business rules might have been applied to transform source
data as it was moved to a target system.
InfoSphere Discovery analyzes the data values and patterns from one or more
sources to capture these hidden relationships and bring them clearly into view.
Applying heuristics and sophisticated algorigthms, it performs a full range of data
analysis techniques: single-source and cross-source data overlap and relationship
analysis, advanced matching key discovery, transformation logic discovery and more.
It accomodates the widest range of enterprise data sources: relational databases,
hierarchical databases and any structured data source represented in text file
format.
Because it provides accurate representation of business objects to be archived,
InfoSphere Discovery is the perfect complement to the IBM Optim Data Growth
Solution. For example, it identifies both database-defined and application-managed
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relationships for the archive business object. In addition, it automatically groups
database tables into business objects (Figure 2) that form the basis of Optim Data
Growth service definitions and requests.
Payments
PeopleSoft / DB2 Siebel / Oracle Custom App /
any DBMS
Figure 2. InfoSphere Discovery automates the grouping of tables into business objects that form the basis
for IBM Optim service definitions and requests.
When you use InfoSphere Discovery and Optim Data Growth together, your
organization can quickly and easily implement best-practice archiving capabilities,
reducing storage requirements and delivering substantial cost savings.
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IBM Optim Data Growth The IBM Optim Data Growth solution is a scalable enterprise solution that can
help meet your evolving needs. From small to large organizations, from single
applications to global business centers, data management is streamlined using a
consistent proven archiving strategy.
Optim Data Growth helps you manage application data growth in your enterprise,
which, in turn, can improve application service levels, mitigate risk and control
costs. With Optim Data Growth, you can:
• Simplify integrated data management to accelerate business-critical projects.
• Provide open access to current and archived data.
• Complete easier upgrades.
• Reduce storage management costs.
• Profit from superior application performance and availability.
By streamlining your application databases, Optim Data Growth provides what you
need to deliver exceptional service to business units and profit from the superior
performance and availability. Key business processes that are imperative to your
organization are completed on time. And with continuous access to your data,
decision makers get the information they need, when and how they need it.
Optim Data Growth also helps organizations control the costs of managing data
growth. It simplifies complex infrastructures so that key IT processes require fewer
resources (Figure 3). With Optim Data Growth, you can reclaim storage capacity,
reduce the cost of maintaining storage and take advantage of a cost-effective data
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growth management strategy. Optim Data Growth supports all major enterprise
databases, operating systems and the most popular ERP and CRM applications in
use today, along with your custom applications.
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Data
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Figure 3. With Optim Data Growth, you can segregate inactive application data from current activity, safely
remove it to a secure archive and keep it accessible with or without the use of the original application.
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Managing enterprise data throughout its life With InfoSphere Discovery and Optim Data Growth, IBM provides capabilities for
cycle with IBM solutions controlling your application data from requirements to retirement. By implementing
a proven integrated data management strategy, you take command of your mission-
critical data throughout its entire life cycle and realize measurable benefits for your
organization:
• Discover. Before archiving and storage initiatives can begin, you must first have
a deep understanding of your existing data assets. Most organizations execute
their business processes over multiple, interrelated applications, databases and
platforms. And without explicit information to describe how data elements are
related across these systems, managers have limited insight into critical informa-
tion assets. InfoSphere Discovery automates the complex process of discovery,
providing broader coverage and greater accuracy than manual data inspection
methods could begin to offer. It uses sophisticated data analysis techniques to
capture both database-defined and application-managed relationships that make
up the business object so that it is ready for archiving.
• Archive. Database archiving is a recognized best practice. Once separated from
current activity, inactive application data is safely moved to a secure archive.
Optim Data Growth manages your data at the transaction, or business object
level— such as service orders, payments or shipments— enabling you to define the
policies and criteria for moving these transactions into an archive. With ongoing
archiving, you can manage continued data growth, reduce costs, simplify mainte-
nance, speed disaster recovery and ultimately reverse the Data Multiplier Effect.
• Store. With Optim Data Growth, you determine the appropriate storage loca-
tion for each class of application data, based on its business value and access
requirements. Utilizing a tiered storage strategy, you reclaim capacity by storing
only current transactions in the high-performance production environment. Your
reference and reporting data can be stored safely in near-line or offline storage.
Tiered storage strategies organize your data cost-effectively, based on its business
value, and help you manage your rapid data growth.
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• Access. Optim Data Growth delivers access to the information you need, when
and how you need it. With capabilities to query, browse and generate standard
or custom reports, you can respond quickly and accurately to audit or discovery
requests. Optim Data Growth supports a broad range of methods to access
archived data. Application-based access offers a consolidated view of current
and historical information with the existing application interface. With “self-
help” data access, users can continue to rely on existing skills and spreadsheet
and reporting tools. Application-independent access utilizes industry standards,
methods and reporting tools to access archived business transactions without
impairing online transaction processing performance and enables application
retirement efforts.
• Retire. A comprehensive retention compliance strategy must include a means for
disposal. With Optim Data Growth, you can control and automate data retirement
when retention periods expire. You minimize the risks associated with retaining
records longer than the stipulated time period. Whether you choose to automate
the process for increased efficiency or manually select archived transactions for
retirements, you can retain only necessary information in primary databases and
archives.
Managing data growth – real world
examples
Many clients have realized measurable benefits from implementing InfoSphere
Discovery and Optim Data Growth to effectively manage enterprise data. One
client, one of the world’s foremost credit card companies, had watched its reward
program database grow from a single database to 50 databases over the course
of many years. As a result, global changes to the reward program now must span
all 50 databases, making updates and changes extremely difficult and slow, if not
impossible.
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The company deployed InfoSphere Discovery software to accelerate the process of
data map discovery and to automate the discovery of the complex relationships and
transformations that exist between the older systems and the master data system.
Using Discovery reduced the time for the first set of mappings from an estimated
time of 560 person-hours to only 54 person-hours and reduced elapsed time from
over 26 weeks to only 2 weeks of work.
For another client in the construction, mining and services industry, data growth
was negatively affecting the performance of its ERP system. Response time for
online transaction processing had declined noticeably, and longer batch processing
windows made it more difficult to meet service levels for month-end close and
other financial business processes. These issues were having a serious impact on
the success of the business. Compounding the problem was a planned upgrade
to the latest version of the ERP system. With Optim Data Growth, the company
was able to reduce the database size and accommodate target goals for completing
the upgrade and production cutover in a single weekend. Improved application
service levels now support business users and daily operations and fully integrated
archiving capabilities aligned with business policies manage application data.
Similarly, the European subsidiary of a global client that manufacturers electronic
and high-technology products for personal and institutional use needed to
integrate and consolidate data and processes with other European entities to
improve service levels and operational efficiencies. Using the Optim Data Growth
solution, the client reduced database size by 30% and increased application
availability by archiving historical transactions to shorten time to complete 19,000
daily batch processes by 75%.
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Conclusion: Manage enterprise
data throughout its life cycle with
IBM solutions
With the InfoSphere Discovery and Optim Data Growth solutions, IBM provides
capabilities for controlling your application data from requirements to retirement.
By implementing a proven integrated data management strategy, you take command
of your mission-critical data throughout its entire life cycle and realize measurable
benefits for your entire organization:
• Reduction of storage and maintenance costs
• Accelerated time to value for critical initiatives like data integration, governance
and archiving
• The defining of logical groupings of data that serve as essential archiving inputs
• The satisfaction of information regulatory requirements
• Simplified IT infrastructure
• Support for business continuity
• Increased business value for your enterprise applications
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About IBM InfoSphere solutions
Business optimization requires information that is accurate, complete, in context
and actionable. Achieving this level of trusted business information requires
transforming, reconciling and maintaining information and delivering it in real time
to the people, processes and applications that need it. IBM InfoSphere products
offer the breadth of capabilities required for complete management and delivery of
trusted business information to ensure competitive success.
About IBM Optim integrated data
management solutions
IBM Optim Integrated Data Management Solutions offer proven, integrated
capabilities to manage enterprise application data from requirements to retirement.
With IBM Optim solutions, teams can share data artifacts (like models, policies and
metadata) to align data management with business goals and improve collaboration.
Today, organizations of all types use IBM Optim solutions to improve performance,
streamline database administration, speed application development and enable
effective governance. IBM Optim integrated data management solutions deliver
better business outcomes, at lower cost, with less risk, while providing capabilities
that scale across enterprise applications, databases and platforms.
For more information
InfoSphere Discovery complements the value of IBM Information Management
solutions, including the IBM Infosphere and IBM Optim product portfolios. To
learn more, contact your IBM sales representative or visit the following Web sites:
ibm.com/software/data/ips
ibm.com/software/data/optim-solutions