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IBM InfoSphere Optim

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Services Offered

• Database Archiving Services & Solutions
• Test Data Management Services & Solutions
• Data Privacy Services & Solutions
• Support for Open Systems, Oracle, Informaix/DB2, Siebel, JD Edwards,
  PeopleSoft

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• Enterprise Strategies to Improve Application Testing

  Ensuring the accuracy, reliability and quality of your critical business applications has never been more important. Why? Because companies across industries depend on mission-critical enterprise applications to drive their business initiatives. In turn, those applications rely on relational databases to store and manage the underlying enterprise data. The ability to enhance, maintain, customize and upgrade those sophisticated applications is critical for achieving long-term business goals. Companies are striving to speed the deployment of reliable, high-quality applications, while staying within tight IT budgets. Learn how IBM InfoSphere can help!
  

• Application Consolidation and Decommissioning Projects: Strategies that Deliver ROI

  Incorporating database archiving as part of an overall information governance strategy can facilitate consolidation and decommissioning projects and help ensure that business goals are reached. Database archiving enables IT executives to safely remove historical data from the application or system being consolidated or decommissioned, while keeping the data accessible. This white paper explains how an information governance strategy that includes the database archiving capabilities of the IBM® InfoSphere™ Optim™ Data Growth Solution can help increase the business value of your enterprise applications and simplify your IT infrastructure to garner significant savings.
  

• Analyst Report: Gartner - Selection Criteria for Database Archiving Products

  Database archiving is gaining traction as a technology that can significantly improve enterprise application performance and reduce storage costs. It is also being used as part of application decommissioning projects to preserve and enable access to associated older data. Gartner analyst, Sheila Childs, describes the selection criteria recommended for organizations to consider when purchasing a database archiving product.
  
  

• Control application data growth before it controls your business

  This white paper describes some of the ways that organizations can address data growth issues with the power of integrated data management. Integrated data management helps support your information governance initiatives, simplify your IT infrastructure, support business continuity and increase the business value of your enterprise applications.
  

• Closing the data privacy gap: Protecting sensitive data in non-production environments

  The ideal data privacy solution must provide the necessary data masking techniques to satisfy the simplest and most complex privacy requirements. These techniques must produce results that accurately mask context-sensitive data in a way that reflects the application logic and preserves the integrity of the data. The solution must also include a way to propagate masked data elements consistently across applications and operating environments to generate valid results.
  

• Webcast: Beyond Disaster Recovery: Becoming a Resilient Business
  
  Some changes bring opportunities for your business, while other brings challenges and sometimes even threats. But no matter what, your business has to be responsive and resilient -- seamlessly taking advantage of opportunities while mitigating risks. Learn how to better understand and manage the process of becoming more resilient by exploring IBM's object-oriented framework, maturity index and transformation
  blueprint.
  
  
• Webcast: Bouncing Back from Disaster-Getting Your IT Environment Running Quickly and Efficiently
  
  Join IBM for a discussion on best practices for preparing your data for unforeseen disasters with the goal of minimizing downtime. Hear success stories of how other companies have stayed prepared for the inevitable while at the same time improving application performance, reducing costs, and mitigating other risks as well.
  
  
  
• Webcast: The Essentials of Test Data Management
  
  Learn how you can reduce storage costs and speed agile and iterative testing cycles by creating "right-sized" test environments and how you can automate the comparison of baseline data against successive test run results to quickly identify application errors while securing the privacy of the data.
  
  
• Webcast: The ROI of Data Privacy... Making Data Privacy Pay for Itself
  
  Implementing data security best practices won't happen unless you can get the funding. In this webcast learn how to justify and demonstrate the ROI of your potential privacy security projects and get the funds to move ahead.
  
  
• Webcast: Closing the Data Privacy Gap
  
  Data protection and privacy continue to be a tremendous focus and risk for the IT community today. Bridging this "privacy gap" helps companies protect the most exploited areas of an organization's IT infrastructure - non-production application environments.
  
  
• Webcast: Data Governance in a Non Production Environment
  
  Your database is subject to threats of course. But did you know 75% come from inside users?
  What steps do you take to mask your data in a nonproduction environment and still have your data available for day to day use?
  
  
• Data privacy best practices: Time to Take Action!

  This white paper explains the steps you need to consider when developing your privacy strategy and implementing your first data privacy project. Using proven data masking techniques, such as those provided in the IBM® Optim™ Data Privacy Solution, can help your organization implement best practices in privacy protection and make your privacy project successful from start to finish. Lastly, learn how a large retail company implemented Optim to develop a best practice strategy and a successful privacy project, overcoming many of the challenges that occur when implementing a privacy project on an enterprise scale.
  

• Closing the data privacy gap for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

  This white paper explains why protecting sensitive information and ensuring privacy have become high priorities. News headlines about the increasing frequency of stolen information and identity theft have focused awareness on privacy breaches and their consequences. In responding to these issues, data privacy regulations have been enacted around the world. Although the specifics of these regulations may differ, failure to ensure data privacy compliance can result in millions of dollars in financial penalties and jail time. Companies also risk losing customer loyalty and destroying brand equity. The impact is serious enough to put a company out of business.

• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS): Addressing the internal threat

  Facing increasing risk and financial losses resulting from the misappropriation and misuse of customer information, the payment card industry had to take the initiative. The PCI DSS represents the payment card industry’s response to these breaches. Going forward, merchants and retailers who cannot protect consumer payment card information will be held accountable.

• E-Discovery and enterprise data management — What you need to know

  While companies recognize that managing business-critical information electronically offers many advantages, the practice also poses many IT challenges. IT organizations need technology with proven capabilities for managing and locating the specific information in order to deliver a fast response to any e-discovery or audit request. Without an effective enterprise data management strategy and early IT involvement to plan for data retention and audit challenges, the way your company responds to an e-discovery request can mean the difference between success and failure.

• Enterprise Strategies to Improve Application Testing

  How can IT organizations improve testing efficiencies and reduce the total cost of owning and maintaining enterprise applications? This whitepaper examines how proven test data management capabilities can help you deliver reliable applications and achieve maxiumum business value from your application investment.

• Anatomy of an Archiving Project
  

  This white paper explains how the seven basic principles for managing enterprise application data can help your organization:

  • Establish effective policies for full-lifecycle enterprise data management to control data growth and lower storage costs.
  • Meet service level goals to ensure the timely completion of key business processes for mission-critical applications.
  • Support data retention compliance initiatives and mitigate risk for audits and e-discovery requests.
  • Implement scalable archiving strategies that easily adapt to your ongoing business requirements
  
  
• Webcast: Protecting Your Company & Your Customers: Understanding Information Governance

  Protecting and retaining your data throughout it's lifecycle are two critical components of IT governance. Learn how these components come into play in legal proceedings today and why IT is becoming a target.

• Mergers and Acquisitions: Data Management Strategies that Support Business Growth
  
  Explore issues facing IT when organizations merge or are acquired. In addition we will examine the best practices for data management that can be employed to minimize these issues and reduce the costs and risk associated with them.
  
  
• Closing the Data Privacy Gap for Oracle’s Siebel CRM Applications
  
  Companies rely on Siebel CRM applications to drive corporate performance by maximizing the value of customer relationships; consequently, it is essential to ensure privacy and protect this vital data no matter where it resides. What are some of the requirements for selecting a data privacy solution?
  
  
• Closing the Data Privacy Gap for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise
  

  Companies rely on critical PeopleSoft® Enterprise applications to support daily business operations, so it is essential to ensure privacy and protect application data no matter where it resides. However, the same methods that protect data in production environments may not meet the unique requirements for non-production (development, test and training) environments. This White Paper offers solutions for protecting sensitive information and ensuring privacy.
  

• Closing the Data Privacy Gap for Oracle E-Business Suite
  
  Companies rely on critical Oracle® E-Business Suite applications to support daily business operations, so it is essential to ensure privacy and protect application data no matter where it resides. However, the same methods that protect data in production environments may not meet the unique requirements for non-production (development, test and training) environments. How can IT organizations protect sensitive data, including employee and customer information, as well as corporate confidential data and intellectual property?
  
  
• Webcast: Ensuring Business Continuity & Streamlining Backup and Recovery of Critical Data Systems
  
  Learn how an archiving strategy can increase the effectiveness of your DR/BC plan.

• Data Privacy Compliance in the Application Testing Environment
  
  Many organizations continue to focus only on implementing strategies to protect data in their production environments, while leaving their testing environment vulnerable. With the increase in outsourcing overseas, now more than ever, this becoming a major issue. In this paper, we will explore strategies to help protect one of your company's most valuable assets, while also allowing your QA and IT staff, internal and external, to have access to viable test data.
  
  
• Enterprise Data Management: Strategies to Increase Business Effectiveness
  
  Among your company's most valuable assets, enterprise applications and databases represent major corporate investments that support your business objectives. So how can you capitalize on your investment in your enterprise applications? This white paper explores best practices for managing you applications and data throughout the information lifecycle. In addition, we will also explore strategies to improve performance, reduce costs and increase visibility across your enterprise.