Solix EDMS Application Retirement can retire legacy packaged applications or custom developed applications and migrate the active data to modern applications or move the legacy data to historical archive where the data is kept for compliance reasons and be queried and reported as required.

1. SOLIX EDMS APPLICATION RETIREMENT
Retire Legacy Applications with Solix EDMS Application Retirement:
Save Costs and Improve Compliance
Why Application Retirement?
Features
Application Retirement is part of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) that holistically
manages the enterprise application portfolio. With the recessionary economy and the • Retires structured and unstructured
consolidation of companies in 2009, large numbers of enterprises and data centers across data
a variety of industries are looking for ways to reduce IT expenditures. The mantra of doing • Retires legacy data and Reports
“more with less” has become much more pervasive in executive board meetings to small with metadata
project meetings. This along with Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) activity across industries • Migrates active data to modern
have been driving factors for application retirement solutions, which allow companies applications
to retire seldom-used applications to significantly cut hardware, storage and software • Available on a range of platforms
maintenance costs in addition to indirect expenditures such as power, space, etc. Companies and configurations
who successfully complete application retirement projects must adhere to compliance • Single installation of Solix EDMS
regulations that require them to retain large amounts of data for years, while preserving the can manage retiring hundreds of
application context and making the data accessible from standard reporting tools. legacy applications
Introducing Solix EDMS Application Retirement Benefits
Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS) Application Retirement enables companies • Reduce IT maintenance costs
to migrate data that needs to be retained • Legacy Data access
to one or more data archive platforms. Solix Information Lifecycle Management • Compliance & Risk Mitigation
EDMS Application Retirement provides • Support for heterogeneous
the ability to define the data retention Database Application databases, applications and IT
Archiving Retirement
policy at the application level, select and infrastructure
then migrate legacy date to data archive • Massive Data Compression
platforms such as an relational database, Data exceeding 90% with Solix Secure
Solix Secure Archive, File Systems, Content Governance Archive
Repositories or cloud storage. This • Building application context for
eliminates risk of falling out of compliance. legacy data
Solix EDMS Application Retirement offers Test Data Data • Dashboard for comprehensive view
Management Masking and management of legacy data
options for how data is migrated giving
customers the ultimate flexibility in a single • Query/Reporting through industry
tool. Depending on the end user access Application Testing standard OLAP/Reporting/BI tools
requirements, Solix EDMS Application
Retirement provides the ability to define the data retention policy at the application level,
select and then migrate the data archive platform such as an relational database, Solix
Secure Archive, File Systems, Content Repositories or cloud storage.
Preserving Application Context
One of the issues of Application Retirement is losing the application context once the
application is retired or decommissioned. Solix EDMS Application Retirement addresses this
issue with Solix EDMS View Builder that allows creation of business views for the migrated
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2. SOLIX EDMS APPLICATION RETIREMENT
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Occasional Archive
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XML File Server
Infrequent
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Solix EDMS Content
Application Repository
Retirement
- Views & Reports
- via BI Tools
- Solix Reporting Tool
Any - View Archived Reports
Cloud
Legacy Storage
Apps *
* RDBMS and Non RDBMS
data to preserve the application context and also provide capabilities to query and report Supported Applications
either on tables or business objects. • Oracle E-Business Suite
Legacy Data Access • PeopleSoft
• JD Edwards
Solix EDMS Application Retirement provides legacy data access with query/reporting through
• Siebel
industry standard OLAP/Reporting/BI tools. Solix EDMS Fast Query and Reporting Tools for
• BaaN
Solix Secure Archive will allow multi-user/multi-query capabilities on massive amounts of
• DataWarehouse
compressed data without need for de-compression using industry standard JDBC, ODBC or
• Legacy Applications (RDMS and
SQL92 access Non-RDBMS)
Solix EDMS Supported Archive Platforms
• RDBMS: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, Informix and databases with Supported Databases
JDBC driver • Oracle
• Archive file formats : CSV, XML, PDF • IBM DB2
• WORM (Content Addressable Storage) HDS HCP, IBM DR550, EMC Centera • Microsoft SQL Server
• Highly Compressed Archive: Solix Secure Archive • MySQL
• Content Repository: Oracle Universal Content Management • Informix
About SOLIX Technologies • Other RDBMS with JDBC driver
support
SOLIX Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management solutions, helps
businesses to improve application performance, reduce storage costs, meet compliance
Supported Operating Systems
and data privacy requirements by achieving Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) goals
• HP-UX
and Data Governance strategies. Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)
• IBM AIX
software enables organizations to implement Database Archiving, Test Data Management
• IBM z/OS
(Data Subsetting), Data Masking and Application Retirement across all enterprise data. Solix
• IBM i5/OS (OS/400)
ExAPPS Appliance is an integrated set of Server, Storage and Software Components for
• Oracle Solaris
Application Retirement all bundled into a single device. SOLIX has an extensive global client
• Linux
base, including Fortune 500 companies, and is widely considered the standard for enterprise • Microsoft Windows
data management. SOLIX Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has
an established worldwide channel program of value added resellers (VARs) and systems
integrators.
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