How can you gain a greater return on your investment in JD Edwards®? Many JD Edwards EnterpriseOne sites have been able to implement effective data management strategies to:

     • Manage continued data growth
     • Improve application testing
     • Protect privacy
     • Streamline upgrades

How have they done it? By using a single, scalable solution. IBM® Optim™ enterprise data management solutions provide best practice database archiving, test data management and data privacy capabilities integrated with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for full-lifecycle data management.



Download the following white papers:
“Anatomy of a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Archiving Project”
“Upgrade and Archive Strategies for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne”
“Closing the Data Privacy Gap for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne”

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Manage continued JD Edwards EnterpriseOne data growth.

Maintaining JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and its supporting infrastructure represents a major investment. But increased regulatory burdens and runaway data growth can strain your resources. Service level targets are harder to reach, jeopardizing your company’s bottom line. The IBM Optim Data Growth Solution for JD Edwards provides fully integrated database archiving capabilities that help JD Edwards sites optimize performance, mitigate risk and control costs.

As a recognized best practice, database archiving segregates inactive application data from current activity and moves it to a secure archive. Optim allows sites to:

• Apply JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application logic and validation rules to manage application data at the transaction or business object level, for example, ledgers or sales orders. And Optim preserves the integrity of the data and captures essential metadata, so that each archived business object represents a historical reference snapshot of business activity.
• Specify the policy criteria for archiving transaction data using visual JD Edwards forms. For example, choose to archive all closed orders that are two or more years old. Ongoing, scheduled archiving allows you to tier transactions between production database tables and archives to achieve service level goals in every case.
• Access archived data quickly, with no adverse impact on production processing. Optim’s native access capabilities allow you to interact with archived data through JD Edwards forms. Application-independent access provides the most flexible range of access alternatives over the life of the archive using standard query or SQL reporting tools.
• Deploy tiered storage strategies to manage JD Edwards EnterpriseOne data, based on its evolving business value. Current transactions remain in the high-performance OLTP environment. Reporting data in history tables can be maintained in mid-tier storage, so you control costs while still achieving service requirements. To further reduce costs, you can store historical or reference data offline to tape or other long-term storage devices.

Maintaining reference data in an immutable format on a secure WORM (Write Once, Read Many) device enables you to protect archived business objects for regulatory compliance. Should an audit request arise, you’ll be prepared with complete snapshots of your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne transactions, perfectly preserved at each point in time.

Improve Test Data Management to speed the delivery of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne enhancements.

Companies depend on the accuracy, reliability and quality of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, while staying within tight budgets. The IBM Optim Test Data Management Solution for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne provides essential capabilities to speed delivery of enhancements and upgrades, while reducing costs. Optim offers proven technology to optimize and automate processes that create and manage data in non-production (testing, development and training) environments:

• Create realistic, “right-sized” test databases and compare “before” and “after” test results with speed and accuracy. Test data management enables JD Edwards EnterpriseOne sites to save valuable processing time, ensure consistency and reduce costs throughout the application lifecycle.
• Accurately extract the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne data needed to test an end-to-end business process, like Procure-to-Pay or Order-to-Cash. Create consistent test environments that are easy to refresh by reloading precise subsets of baseline data after each iterative testing session.
• Support site-specific customizations using convenient visual editing environment that you can leverage to define custom extension tables and relationships within your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne implementation.
• Capture related data between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and other applications and databases, such as legacy processing systems. Federated extract capabilities allow you to map test data management to your unique business processes.

Optim’s subsetting capabilities eliminate excess data volume to reduce storage requirements and trim costs. Streamlined test databases are easier to manage and maintain so sites can speed iterative testing cycles and deploy new JD Edwards EnterpriseOne functionality in less time — without sacrificing quality.

Protect the privacy of confidential data in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications.

Safeguarding the privacy of personally identifiable data is not optional – it’s the law. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne sites process many types of confidential employee, customer and vendor data in the course of daily operations. The IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne provides essential capabilities to mask, transform and de-identify confidential data to support privacy compliance initiatives:

• Optim’s application-aware data masking capabilities understand, capture and accurately process JD Edwards EnterpriseOne data elements so that the masked data does not violate application logic. Masked values resemble the look and feel of the original information. For example, surnames are replaced with random surnames, not with meaningless text strings. Numeric fields retain the appropriate structure and pattern. Checksums remain valid, so that functional tests pass all application validity checks.
• Optim propagates all masked data elements accurately and consistently throughout the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne test database and to other related applications and databases.
• Optim’s context-aware, prepackaged data masking routines de-identify key data elements across JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications: Human Capital Management, Financials, Supply Chain and others. Prepackaged routines allow for accurate transformation of complex data elements, such as social security numbers, credit card numbers and e-mail addresses.

Data that has been masked or transformed is valid and usable for testing or training. The IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne offers comprehensive, proven capabilities for de-identifying test data, making the data appropriate for testing purposes, but useless to identity thieves and hackers.

Streamline JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Upgrades

The time is right for sites to protect and extend their investment in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Oracle Corporation’s Lifetime Support policies and Applications Unlimited program should not delay or prevent your organization from upgrading to the newest version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Minimizing the number of release versions between your current and future JD Edwards application versions will ease your transition. Optim’s database archiving capabilities enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne sites to streamline the application upgrade process, minimizing costly business disruption and improving application service levels.

About IBM Optim

IBM Optim enterprise data management solutions focus on critical business issues, such as data growth management, data privacy compliance, test data management, e-discovery, application upgrades, migrations and retirements. Optim aligns application data management with business objectives to help optimize performance, mitigate risk and control costs, while delivering capabilities that scale across enterprise applications, databases and platforms.

Optim is the only solution to provide consistent technology across the entire family of Oracle applications: Oracle® E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft® Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Siebel®, as well as your custom and packaged applications. Optim also supports all leading enterprise databases and operating systems, including IBM DB2®, Oracle, Sybase®, Microsoft® SQL Server®, IBM Informix®, IBM IMS™, IBM VSAM®, Microsoft Windows®, UNIX®, Linux® and IBM z/OS®. Today, Optim helps companies across industries worldwide capitalize on the business value of their enterprise applications and databases, with the power to manage enterprise application data through every stage of its lifecycle.

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