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Situation |
| Gartner estimates that "aging and poorly used applications that should be retired contribute as much as 20% or more to the overall IT organization resource baseline requirements." |
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| Application Retirement is a growing reality for many organizations as they grow, merge or otherwise consolidate operations. The number of enterprise systems that IT departments support continues to grow. Strategic moves away from proprietary mainframe and applications systems coupled with efforts to reduce IT spend on existing infrastructure are bringing focus on application retirement as a way to fund new projects or make the existing IT budget go farther |
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| Applications that are candidates for retirement consume computing resources, storage, and manpower to maintain yet provide very little business benefit to the organization. Often, applications that supported hundreds of users at rollout are now beings used by very few. While the majority of IT budgets go to supporting existing applications, very little attention is typically paid to the total cost of maintaining an application. |
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Solution |
| Application retirement is a viable strategy for eliminating redundant legacy applications, thereby improving operational efficiency and reducing costs. By reducing the number of applications within the IT infrastructure, DBAs can concentrate on maintaining critical business applications with the highest value to the organization instead of compiling data from disparate sources. Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration allows organizations to: |
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- Implement Data Migration projects across applications: Legacy, Mainframe, BaaN, JDE, PeopleSoft, Siebel Oracle, SAP, etc. while allowing changes to chart of accounts, organization structure, costing methods, etc.
- Implement Data Migration projects across operating systems: Windows, Linux, Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) while allowing changes to Technology Stack, Middleware etc.
- Implement Data Migration projects across databases: Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server while carefully accommodating changes to Data Types
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Benefits |
| Application retirement helps organizations to reduce cost while maintaining access to the data either through the creation of a common data store or by migrating data into an existing enterprise application. By utilizing Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration organization can: |
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- Improve Operational Efficiency
- Reduce Costs
- Ensure Data retention requirements are met
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Solix EDMS |
Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration is part of the Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) that enables centralized management of data classification and security policies. At the core of the Solix EDMS is the Solix Metadata Manager, which manages multiple applications and data types across at hardware platforms through a unified policy manager.
For more information, sales@solix.com |
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