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Experiencing ONLINE Archiving at Securitas, Belron (Carglass) and Riyad Bank
Experiencing ONLINE Archiving
at Securitas, Belron (Carglass) and Riyad Bank
AGENDA
• What is ONLINE Archiving ?• Why Archive ?• Applimation & it’s Informia Archive solution• Case Studies:
• SECURITAS – PeopleSoft
• BELRON – Oracle eBusiness Suite & Remedy
• RIYAD BANK - Siebel
What is ONLINE Archiving?
Archiving is an application-aware method of relocating enterprise data out of a production database.
What Archiving is NOT:
• Backup• Disaster recovery• Mirroring• Reporting instance• Data warehouse
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Current Data
What is ONLINE Archive ?
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ProductionDatabase
With Online Archive
Online Archive Database
SeamlessAccess
Layer
Archived Data
DataDiscoveryPortal
DataDiscoveryPortal
Direct from Production –Archive Only
Current Data
Current Data
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Why Archive ? The Challenge of Increasing Data Growth
BEFORE SOLUTION
Growing storage costs
Diminishing performance
Increasing maintenance &
Compliance work
AFTER SOLUTION
Predictable manageable growth
Improved, stable performance
Reduced maintenance &
compliance work
Applimation – Broad Application Coverage
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� A leader in enterprise data management software
� Focus on business applications
� Unified, integratedproduct suite
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Informia Archive Product Objective
Informia Archive
Complex transactional chaining
Relocating inactive data
Better performing production database
Solution
Primary Challenge
Method
Objective
3 Business Cases
Securitas in France
- Peoplesoft environment
- Addressing performance by using Informia Archive
Belron (Carglass) in the United Kingdom
- Custom Remedy Application
- Oracle eBusiness Suite ERP
- Addressing growth by using Informia Subset and Archive
Riyad Bank in Saudi Arabia
- Siebel environment
- Addressing performance and total cost by using Informia Archive
Securitas
Company Information
Created in Sweden in 1934
Present in over 20 countries
Worldwide number one in private security
The network of Securitas in France has over 110 agencies and over 19’000
people
Context
Information System at Securitas is based around the ERP Peoplesoft Finance-
ESA and HCM-Global Payroll modules
These two systems are highly integrated and coupled with various other
business specific systems
Users are around the country (over 100 agencies)
Database size impacts performance and the anticipated upgrade window is too
consequent.
Belron
Company Information
BELRON is the world's largest vehicle glass repair and replacement company
Generating revenues in excess of €2000 million in 2007
BELRON has operations in 28 countries across four continents
Our call centres handle forty calls every minute and every four seconds a
BELRON business replaces a piece of glass or repairs a windscreen
Have over 1,600 service centers and 7,100 mobile repair vehicles
serving around 8 million motorists worldwide
Context
The information system uses Oracle Applications for the financial part and a
Remedy helpdesk application
Both of these systems grow quickly and start to be impacted in performance
Belron also needs a more flexible mechanism to produce smaller test
environments for these systems
Riyad Bank
Company Information
One of the largest financial institutions in Saudi Arabia
Corporate and retail banking
Have international offices in London, Houston, and Singapore.
Context
Siebel CRM system with over 25 million service requests
Performance of the business users is impacted due to growing data
Batch jobs tend to take too much time
Questions … Thank You !
Sales Engineer EMEAErwin De Smaele
VP Sales EMEAXavier Coemelck
Marketing Director EMEANancy Aufdermaur
Alliances Director EMEAAlban J. Calcagno
