Dramatically Reduce Data Management Costs
Data volumes aren’t just growing—they’re exploding. It’s estimated that the volume of data housed in large business applications, such as CRM and ERP systems, increases by as much as 50 percent each year.
And the problem isn’t going away. As your business grows, more transaction volumes are added to your applications and data warehouses. Your IT organization also has to retain data for longer periods to comply with regulations—further increasing data volumes and management costs.
Data growth degrades the performance of your critical business systems. As a result, your IT organization struggles to meet service-level agreements. Data growth also escalates hardware, database, and packaged application costs, as well as administration and maintenance costs.
Multiple copies of production data in nonproduction environments exacerbates data growth. Data copied to nonproduction environments is also rarely secured. As a result, confidential data may be exposed to the risk of data breaches. Because development and testing are commonly outsourced and sent offshore to third parties, IT organizations need to monitor unauthorized access to sensitive data. All of this plays out at a time when IT is expected to do more with less.
Your IT organization needs a cost-effective, long-term solution for managing data in your Oracle E-Business Suite applications throughout its lifecycle—from development, test, production, and archive to retirement. Application information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions are the answer.
These solutions help your IT organization align the business value of data with the most appropriate and cost-effective IT infrastructure to manage it. They also reduce the total cost of ownership and increase the return on investment associated with such enterprise business applications as ERP, CRM, HR, SCM, and data warehouses.
Informatica’s application ILM solutions are ideal for: