Solix Corporate Overview

Enterprise Data Management Solutions

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Company Overview

Company Facts

Flagship Product – Solix EDMS Appliance ‐ Solix ExAPPS Cloud – Solix Cloud Enabling Solutions Solix EDMS Database Archiving ‐ OEM’ed by

Oracle for Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Application

Solix ExAPPS: Industry’s First Application Retirement Appliance


Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite

Our solutions help enterprise customers manage and protect their application data assets in an optimized and secure manner to

1. Accelerate Cloud Enablement and Data Consolidation in enterprises to cost‐effectively transition to cloud‐based infrastructure by archiving non‐active data and rationalizing the application portfolio

2. Enable business agility through better application performance and Application Portfolio Management

3. Risk avoidance through compliance of data retention plus data privacy laws

4. Optimize data centers and reduce operating costs


What Problems We Are Solving

Data Breach

● Security ● Compliance ● Risk Mitigation

Operational Inefficiencies

● Storage Costs ● Productivity ● Time

● Optimize Data Centers ● Reduce Operational Costs ● Compliance

Data GrowthPerformance

HardwareCapacity

Risk

Compliance

Downtime

IT Resources

DatabaseSize

How Many Copies?

● Reduce Maintenance Costs ● Data Consolidation ● Compliance

Obsolete Applications


What Problems We Are Solving

Poor Infrastructure Utilization

● Low productivity● Risk & Compliance ● Reduce Cloud Storage & Resources Cost

Reduced Budgets : CapEx & OpEX

● Optimize Cloud Infrastructure● Rationalization & Consolidation● Reduce Operating Costs


Solix EDMS Platform


Single Install, Product, Repository

PeopleSoft

OracleE‐Business Suite, BaaN, VSAM

BaaN on InformixCustom Applications

JD Edwards onSQL Server

OracleE‐Business Suite

Oracle EBS, Siebel, OTM, DB2 on z/OS

Oracle EBS, SAP R/3, MFG‐PRO, MANMAN, Progress



Solix EDMS Application‐Awareness

• Out‐of‐box knowledge to identify transactional business objects• Business objects can span across several tables, tablespaces and partitions• Examples: Customer, Sales Order, Service Order, Examples: AR Receipts, Transactions; INV Transactions; GL Journals

• Extendable metadata model framework to auto‐populate for custom applications

Solix EDMS Database Archiving

Optimize data centers, cloud infrastructure and reduce operational costs with enterprise data archiving


Challenges from Data Growth

What happens ?– More Data = Less Performance

• Performance Tuning– Money spent on operations vs. Strategic Initiatives

» SQL Tuning» Database Tuning

– Increased storage costs– Longer backup and recovery cycles– No data lifecycle management – Compliance & Legal risks– Moving Platforms (HP‐UX to Linux)

• More data = Longer Outage– Clones


Why Database Archiving

IT Resources

Downtime

Risk

Compliance $

How many copies?







• Customizable business rules define the criteria that determines if a transaction is eligible to be archived

• Rules ensure that only valid transactions are archived and does not break the applications integrity

• Ensures data validation

• Exception and audit reporting• Archive and Purge using either using a multi‐step model with built‐in preview

capabilities or automated model with event notifications• Integrate the archive processes with enterprise schedulers or management

tools


Benefits of Database Archiving

• Improve Application Performance– Large tables = poor performance– Removing historical business objects reduces their size

• Improve Operations– Reduce downtime for Cold Backups, upgrades and disaster

recovery– Reduce Cloning time

• Reduce Costs– Tiered storage can reduce infrastructure costs by 20‐50%– Reduce DBA time & cost for tuning and monitoring– Saves overall storage by reducing the multiplier effect

• Maintain Regulatory Compliance– Data is maintained in same format and accessible by original

application– Manage the lifecycle of data using corporate policies

Performance

HardwareCapacity

Risk

Compliance

Downtime

IT Resources

DatabaseSize

How Many Copies?


Case Study: Herbalife

• Database backup, restore and cloning time has gone up

• Improve application Performance

• Concurrent programs were taking long time to complete

• Time to apply patches had increased significantly

• Simultaneous access to the archived data

• PROD hardware upgrades cost for supporting operation at more countries

Challenges Solix Solution Benefits achieved• Improved system / application

performance and stability• Less storage for db copies, backups,

clones, reporting and mirrors• Less time for database backup,

restore, recovery, clones and transfer• Less down time for application /

database patches and upgrades• Stay within IT budgets, infrastructure and

operation costs

• Implemented Solix EDMS Archiving solution• Metadata repository• Configurator• CLI• Migration tools

• Built the Knowledgebase for INV, AR, GL, ONT and WSH E‐Business modules

• Implement Custom Archiving for archiving speed of millions of records in few hours

Background• Client is worldwide distributor of nutrition, weight

management and personal care products thru 1.9 million distributors in 72 countries

• Using Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10• DB size is growing with opening operations at more

countries• Database grown by 1 TB during last year reaching 7 TB

total

Business Objective• Archive historical data to

maintain database size at manageable level improve performance Comply with data retention requirements improve time, effort and storage required for clone

instances• Meet the need of growing operations with minimal

PROD hardware upgrades


American Tire Distributors (ATD)

“ATD got an expected performance boost in Oracle E‐Business Suite from database archiving. We see a 50 to 60 percent performance improvement in our nightly batch processing, with no SQL tuning at all Gibson says. It's Huge.”

Revisiting one extreme example: the seven hours of processing formerly required to merge two customers’ inventory data was reduced to one hour, and with further SQL tuning it now runs in one minute.

Angelic Gibson, Director of IT OperationsAmerican Tire Distributors

“Database archiving has also helped ATD move toward a lifecycle management approach to data, meaning that the company is able to exercise more control over data’s creation, storage, and deletion. “Going through that lifecycle—from production to archiving to elimination—is definitely what we’re putting together as a long‐term Strategy”

Tony Vaden, CIOAmerican Tire Distributors

Solix EDMS Application Retirement

Rationalize applications portfolio and data center consolidation with end‐2‐end Application Retirement solution


Application Retirement

Reducing Costs

Regulatory Compliance

Retiring legacy hardware Eliminating maintenance & support costs Reducing administrative costs Proven ROI

“On average 10% of applications in an unoptimized portfolio

are candidates for retirement. An additional one‐third can

require migration or rationalization”

Jim Duggan, Gartner analyst

“The decommissioning of existing systems‐of‐record

applications will be very significant —we believe that between

2010 and 2020 more than half of all data center applications

in use in 2010 will be retired. This mass retirement will bring

the problem of orphaned data to the front and center of issues

the IT organization will be expected to mediate and resolve”

Gartner Research (Sheila Childs, Andy Kyte, Ted

Friedman, Debra Logan, Jim Duggan)

DataCenter Consolidation

Mergers and acquisitions Application standardization / Modernization / Consolidation

Upgrading to ERP

Source: “Plan Legacy Application Retirements Carefully”, Gartner, April 2009Managing orphaned data will require a multidisplianary approach” Gartner, March 2011

Data retention regulations eDiscovery requests Warranty fulfillment


Business Drivers for Application Retirement

“The economics of replacing old hardware with new hardware are pretty good. But the real gains are in rationalization of your applications. How many thousands of applications do you need to run the company? Are there alternatives to which you can migrate users instead of retaining so much redundancy? At Dell we had the same problem. I used to run IT here. We had 10,000 applications; we've brought that number down by about half, and by the time we're done, we'll bring it down into the hundreds”

Steve SchuckenbrockPresident DELL Services


http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/29/virtualization‐cloud‐computing‐technology‐cio‐network‐enterprise.html

“The main area of focus for Johnson in 2011 is a programme dubbed Rationalise the Core (RTC), now moving to its third and final year with the aim of reducing Dell's portfolio of hundreds of applications. Some projects are "a bit behind," but the plan is 85% on track, so it should take an additional six months to complete”

“We have driven huge efficiency by using that approach. Not only we reduced application count worldwide, but we upgraded applications and that has taken IT cost out whilst delivering a better answer for the business”

Robin JohnsonCIO DELL

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/03/01/245668/CIO‐Interview‐Robin‐Johnson‐Dell.htm


Application Retirement Approach

• Classify Legacy Data to be Migrated– Separate business relevant data from system data– Determine criteria for business data to be migrated

• All tables or selected business objects• Selected date range

• Migrate Legacy Data to an Archive– Select an archive based on access requirements– Frequency of access, turn‐around time for access, end‐user or IT access

– Select migration method for the selected data

• Provide Access to Migrated Data– Create context to make migrated data useful once the legacy application is retired– Setup role‐base security– Allow browsing of migrated data– Create queries and reports

• Retention Management & Legal Discovery– Assign retention schedule to data objects– Data disposition after retention with embedded workflow– Maintain audit‐trail and prove chain‐of‐custody– Apply legal holds with data preservation– Export data on legal holds to a legal archive for further processing & culling



Application Retirement Process

Identify Candidate Applications Data

Classification

Data Migration

Data Validation

Add Application Context

Data De‐Duplication

Data Compression

RoleBased Security

QueryData

End‐UserReporting

Retention management

LegalDiscovery

ETL

Data AccessBI / Reporting Tools

Long Term Archive

Lifecycle Management


Application Retirement: Data Migration


Application Retirement – Data Access



Solix Application Portfolio Manager

• APM Dashboard– Summary view of all retired applications

• Role‐based Security– Define roles– Assign objects (tables, views) to roles– Assign one or more roles to each user– User authentication – Integrate with LDAP or AD

• Data Browser – Select objects to browse– Select columns to view– Enter criteria for data to be returned – Sort data on any selected column– Save query for re‐use– View selected data

• Browse data on screen• Export to XML or CSV files

• All functionality runs in your browser– No desktop software to install– Can be integrated into company intranet for rapid deployment

Solix EDMS ExAPPS Appliance

Data consolidation and cloud enablement with purpose‐built appliance for application retirement


Appliances

Routers

DataWarehouseAppliance

Database Appliances

Application RetirementAppliance


Why Application Retirement Appliance

• Dedicated for Application Retirement only• Lighter footprint when other data management capabilities

are not required• Purpose‐built

– Higher automation – Simplifies Application Retirement process

• Ideal for repeatable process• Single appliance price: delivers lowest TCO• Single location for all legacy data: easier to manage, search

and access.


Introducing Solix ExAPPS


Simplicity

• “It’s an Appliance”• Solix EDMS Application Retirement works from any standard

browser• No setup required• Plug‐n‐Start‐Application‐Retirement


Rapid Implementation


Quick ROI with Repeatable Process


Classification

Data Migration

Data Validation



Data Compression

RoleBased Security

QueryData

End‐UserReporting


LegalDiscovery

ETL


Long Term Archive



Lowest TCO

Pre‐built

Pre‐tested

Pre‐configured

Pre‐patched

Pre‐validated


Two Models

• Solix ExAPPS Standard: Caters to retirements of large numbers of legacy applications ‐ up to 50 TB source structured data. Provides data immutability

• Solix ExAPPS Mini: Ideal for customers requiring 10 – 15 applications to retire with <5 TB of legacy data

“Since most organizations find that they have many applications to retire once they get started, and the ROI is fairly good when using database‐archiving tools, the objective should be to turn the activity into a somewhat repeatable process. Look for tools that support this. Application archiving vendor Solix Technologies, for example, has just released an application archiving appliance that is designed to leverage this repeatability to reduce cost and increase the speeds of retirement”.

Sheila Childs, Research Director, GartnerUse Database Archiving to Preserve Data When Retiring Applications, March 2009


Comparison

Solix ExAPPS Standard Solix ExAPPS Mini

Hardware Configuration Quad Processor Intel/ 2x6 RAID storage

Quad Processor Intel/ 2x6 RAID storage

Software Infrastructure Suse Linux/Apache Tomcat/LongTerm Archive

Suse Linux/Apache Tomcat/LongTerm Archive

Solix EDMS Application Retirement Included Included

Solix Secure Archive Included; provides 90% compression & data immutability

Not Included

Storage Capacity after Compression Up to 50 TB source data (structured) Compression feature not available (up to 5TB source data)


Application Retirement Experience

Non‐RDBMS Based• ManMan• VSAM files• CA‐IDMS• CA‐DataCom

RDBMS‐Based• Oracle EBS• PeopleSoft• JD Edwards E1• JD Edwards World• Siebel• BaaN• SAP• MFG‐PRO• Custom

Platforms• Linux• Unix• Windows• AS/400 – OS/400• Mainframe – z/OS, OS/390


Case Study ‐ Honeywell

Retire heterogeneous set of applications Reduce costs related to legacy

application maintenance Risk mitigation and compliance Report generation/ Information access

to business users

Background Started with retirement of single application (JDE)

Now expanded as enterprise initiative

Application Retirement across different divisions

50+ applications and 12 TB of data

Business objectives Reduce IT Costs Meet regulatory compliance for data retention Centralize management of retired data Minimize impact on end users Consolidate / simplify data center Standardization on SAP Continued usage of SAP BO reports to access to legacy data

Projected cost savings of $12 million over three years

Consolidated repository for all retired data, enables centralized management

End‐user access to retired data with minimal IT involvement

Implementation of Solix EDMS Application Retirement

Migration of legacy data to an Oracle database repository

Maintain context for migrated data utilizing Solix View Builder

Implement role‐based security and end‐user data access utilizing Solix Application Portfolio Manager

Enable the continued use of existing Business Objects custom reports

Challenges Solix’s Solution Benefits Expected


Benefits

• Simplicity: It’s An Appliance• Rapid Implementation: Integrated and ready‐for‐deployment• Quick ROI: It’s Repeatable • Lower TCO: Pre‐Tested, Pre‐Configured,…..• Ensures Compliance: All retired data in a single device; in Solix

Secure Archive – provides Immutability to data• Built‐in reporting tools; supports common BI Tools• Provides systematic approach to manage application portfolio• Supports heterogeneous infrastructure


Analyst Endorsements

“Since most organizations find that they have many applications

to retire once they get started, and the ROI is fairly good when

using database‐archiving tools, the objective should be to turn

the activity into a somewhat repeatable process. Look for tools

that support this. Application archiving vendor Solix

Technologies, for example, has just released an application

archiving appliance that is designed to leverage this repeatability

to reduce cost and increase the speeds of retirement”

Sheila Childs, Research Director, GartnerUse Database Archiving to Preserve Data When Retiring Applications, March 2010

“The return on the investment for implementing a

structured data archiving solution is exceptionally high,

especially for application retirement or when deployed for

a packaged application for which vendor‐supplied

templates are available to ease implementation and

maintenance. One vendor (Solix Technologies) recently

launched an all‐in‐one application retirement appliance

designed to support data associated with multiple

applications in an immutable, searchable format, which

may ease the extensive deployment requirements for some

of these solutions”

Pushan Rinnen, Dave Russell ‐ GartnerHype Cycle for Storage Technologies, July 2010

Solix EDMS Test Data Management

Reduce storage costs and increase application development productivity with secure database subsetting


Test Data Management

6 * 500 GB = 3 TB


Cloning and Sub‐Setting


Case Study: CMS

• Reduce time for subsetting and cloning of databases

• Configuration instance is not in sync

• Maintain a configuration with only master data

• No real Tx Data in test as they manufacture

• Have to migrate code with new releases

Business Objectives

• Reduce time and storage required for non‐production clones

• Improve the system performance• Create subsets that are 1% of the production copy• Improve the application patch and testing cycle process

• Created subsets which are 1% of production instances that are of 16TB size

• Create subset and gold instances in < 24 hours with highly efficient parallel processing

• Gold Instance 103 GB

• Subset instance 180 GB

• Savings on 89 TB storage provisioning

• Implemented Solix EDMS solution

• Unique “Single‐Pass Database Technology™” with inline subsetting

• Solix EDMS Gold Instance as a direct fit for their configuration instance

Background• Using Oracle E‐business Suite • IT operations are out sourced to IBM Global Services• Cost of Storage provisioning and application productivity

cycle issues with non‐production instances• Create 6 copies of production database


Solix EDMS Data Masking

Reduce risk and compliance issues by securing PII and PCI data with enterprise data masking


Solix EDMS Data Masking

• Solix EDMS Data Masking masks sensitive and confidential data based on policies• Leverages metadata from Application‐Awareness• Maintains data referential integrity across entire application• Extensible Architecture


Benefits of Test Data Management & Data Masking

Smaller clones reduce storage and server requirements• Test and dev clones are “right‐sized” to business need• Single‐Pass Database Cloning with inline subsetting• Database, Application and schema cloning

Smaller clones increase data security• Less data in subsets implies less risk of exposure to sensitive data• Sensitive data is masked and protected• Compliance and risk mitigation

Reduces Cloning Times to Hours• Automated process• Parallel copy process


Case Study: Nextel Mexico

Sensitive data in custom applications need to be masked in non‐production before it is sent for test/dev/QA

Administration across multiple applications needs to be simple

Large DB size has started to impact application Performance

Multiple database types in a complex environment

Automated high‐performance masking to eliminate possibility of data breaches

Compliance with new government regulations

Self‐sufficient customer comfortable with making sensitive data

Single tool for 10 custom applications on 3 different database types

1st phase: Implementing Solix EDMS Masking solution on 1 database and provide knowledge transfer to Nextel

2nd phase: Nextel will complete implementation on remaining databases

Starting with Oracle Databases Next will be Teradata


Business objectives Secure sensitive data in non‐production databases for all

applications in a consistent manner Maintain referential integrity across individual and multiple

applications Train Nextel to complete implementation of EDMS on all

applications

Background Client is a leader in Wireless Communication

Using 10 custom applications on 10 databases

10 databases – 8 Oracle, 1 MS SQLServer & 1 Teradata

Budget constraints limit implementation dollars

Mexican government passed regulation requiring

protection of all sensitive data on non production

environments


Case Study: Ross Stores

Sensitive data in PeopleSoft & Retek applications need to be masked in non‐production before it is sent for test/dev

Cloning is taking 3 days

Administration across multiple applications needs to be simple

Large DB size has started to impact application Performance

Need to reduce storage costs


Business objectives Reduce time and storage required for non‐production

clones Secure sensitive data in non‐production databases for all

applications 2nd phase – to archive historical data and improve

application performance Train the outsourcing partner

Making smaller subsets saving DBA time & costs

Reducing storage by at least 50%

Automated high‐performance masking to eliminate possibility of data breaches

Outsourcing partner part of implementation

Would be Self‐sufficient, making secure subsets and clones

Single tool for Archiving, Subsetting, Cloning & Masking

Out of box templates for PSFT & Retek Support of non‐Oracle Databases 1st phase: Implementing Solix EDMS

Subsetting, Cloning & Masking solution Starting with PSFT Next Application: Retek Non‐Oracle applications

Background Client is a leader in retail business

Using PeopleSoft Financials & HCM on Oracle

Retek on Oracle

Other applications on non‐Oracle Databases

IT operations are outsourced

Compliance Officer has mandated securing sensitive data in

non‐production instances

Solix Cloud Enabling Solutions

Optimize Cloud infrastructure and reduce operating costs with cloud enablement solutions


Cloud Solutions Market

An estimated $20 billion of the Federal Government’s $80 billion in IT spending is a potential target for migration to cloud computing solutions*

* Federal Cloud Computing Strategy – Vivek Kundra, Chief Information Officer – Feb 2011










Microsoft Azure Platform


Classification

Data Migration

Data Validation



Data Compression

RoleBased Security

QueryData

End‐UserReporting


LegalDiscovery

ETL


Long Term Archive





Solix Application Portfolio Manager

Client


Data Center Consolidation

• According to Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), federal agencies have formulated detailed consolidation plans and technical roadmaps to eliminate a minimum of 800 data centers by 2015*

• Controlling Data Growth Help controlling the data growth in the data center using intelligent data archiving

• Optimizing Data Center Infrastructure Compliment 3 key Data Center initiatives to optimize Data Centers Consolidation Rationalization Virtualization

* http://www.cio.gov/documents/25‐Point‐Implementation‐Plan‐to‐Reform‐Federal%20IT.pdf


Summary

• Comprehensive Data Governance Platform to manage and protect application data assets

• Single product, install, repository• On‐premise, On‐device, On‐demand• Support for End‐2‐End lifecycle management processes• Application Portfolio Management• Deployment across industries, applications and databases• Partnerships including (OEM, Re‐sellers and Service providers)


Solix & Oracle : Partnership at a Glance

Technology Integrations Among DB Archiving vendors –Only Solix

Applications & Industries

Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking, PeopleSoft, Oracle E‐Business Suite, JD Edwards, Siebel, Oracle Transportation Management

Only archiving solution that is embedded into Oracle Vertical Industry Applications. (OEM’d by Oracle Flexcube)Oracle Validated IntegrationOracle Exastack Ready

Systems Management Group

Oracle Data Masking Pack Onlymasking solution that is integrated with Oracle Data Masking Pack to provide “Application‐Awareness” capability

Fusion Middleware Group

Oracle Enterprise Content Management, Oracle WebLogic 11g

Only application retirement solution to support Oracle ECM platform – ensures archived data cannot be modified with data retention capabilities

Database Group Oracle 11g Total Recall; Oracle Partitioning; Oracle Advanced Compression; Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)

Only solution that has complete integrations: provides max ROI – leveraging customer’s Oracle investments


Partial Customer List …


Documents

Solix Corporate Overview