Solution Overview: EMC—Informatica

EMC—INFORMATICA An EMC Select Partner Overview ESSENTIALS Partner products •

Informatica Data Archive

EMC products

COST-EFFECTIVE AND SECURE DATABASE ARCHIVING As organizations around the world are seeing their production databases growing, business policies and regulations require them to retain this data indefinitely. Storing increasing amounts of data on production systems is a recipe for poor performance—no

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EMC® Symmetrix®

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EMC® VNX® Family

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Centera

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Atmos

solutions, offer an effective and secure archive solution for packaged and custom

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Documentum® xDB

applications across multiple database platforms. The combination of EMC and

Solution highlights •

A flexible, intelligent archiving framework enables seamless discovery of content held within complex application environments, while helping to reduce storage costs and simplify management

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matter how much hardware is added or an application is tuned. Together, EMC—the undisputed global leader in information storage solutions and Informatica— a leading provider of application information lifecycle management

Informatica Data Archive simplifies information management with unprecedented scalability for both users and IT administrators.

INFORMATICA DATA ARCHIVE Informatica Data Archive is highly scalable, high-performance software that helps IT organizations cost-effectively manage the proliferation of data volumes in a variety of enterprise applications. The software enables IT teams to safely and easily archive structured data in databases, enterprise applications, data warehouses, and files— including reference, transactional, and related unstructured data such as images,

Reduce TCO with EMC tiered

audio, documents, and other types of attachments—and then readily access it when

storage and improve the

needed. Informatica Data Archive is integrated with EMC® Centera® content-addressed

performance of production

storage and EMC Atmos™ for archiving to the cloud. All access to retired data is

databases and applications

tracked and audited to establish a chain of custody. Informatica Data Archive also

Safely retire legacy applications

automates the enforcement of retention and disposition policies, while following an

and mainframes to eliminate

approval process for purging expired data, making compliance management easier and

infrastructure and operational

more effective.

costs, while maintaining easy

Informatica and EMC use data growth and file analysis tools to examine the current

access to archived data

data growth patterns, forecast future data growth in a customer’s application, simulate

Support compliance with industry

the impact of the Informatica/EMC solution on a customer’s application, and calculate

and government

the expected return on investment (ROI) from using the EMC—Informatica solution.

KEY FEATURES ROBUST DATABASE ARCHIVING •

Archive inactive data to another database instance or to a secure, highly compressed file

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Relocate complete business entities—transactional, reference data, and metadata— to a secure, highly compressed, immutable file for later retrieval

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Centrally manage scalable archive processes based on application-aware policies across multiple databases, CRM, ERP, and custom applications

SEAMLESS DATA ACCESS

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

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Maintain access to archived data in databases from existing application interfaces

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Restore an entire archive or selected business entities, or archive snapshots to any database

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View, search, and report on data that’s been archived to file through a powerful data discovery portal

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Use standard SQL/ODBC/JDBC interfaces to access archived data from any reporting and business intelligence tools

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Easily integrate with third-party archiving, enterprise content management, and eDiscovery solutions such as Symantec and EMC IN-DEPTH DATA GROWTH ANALYSIS

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Analyze current and future data growth rates for tables and modules in applications

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Proactively plan for data growth by identifying data that can be archived and by defining effective archiving strategies COMPREHENSIVE APPLICATION ACCELERATORS

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Deploy easily customized business rules for archiving using prebuilt accelerators for business applications, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, and PeopleSoft

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Employ a simple graphical user interface to view, edit, extend, and develop archiving templates (accelerators) and business rules BROAD CONNECTIVITY AND CUSTOM APPLICATION SUPPORT

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Archive any database, mainframe, and hundreds of enterprise and legacy applications, including (but not limited to) Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft® SQL Server®, Sybase, Teradata, IMS, VSAM, JD Edwards, and Amdocs

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Build custom metadata and business rules for custom applications using wizards and data mining capabilities

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Quickly extend prebuilt metadata to incorporate custom tables created in prepackaged applications

ABOUT INFORMATICA Informatica Corporation is a top independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today’s global information economy with timely, relevant, and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives. More than 4,100 enterprises worldwide rely on Informatica to access, integrate, and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise, off premise, and in the cloud.

CONTACT US To learn more about how EMC products, services, and solutions can help solve your business and IT challenges, contact your local representative or authorized reseller— or visit us at www.EMC.com.

ABOUT EMC EMC builds information infrastructures and virtual infrastructures to help people and businesses around the world unleash the power of their digital information. EMC offerings in backup and recovery, enterprise content management, unified storage, big data, enterprise storage, data federation, archiving, security, and deduplication help customers move to and build IT trust in their next generation of information management and enable them to offer IT-as-a-Service as part of their journey to cloud computing.

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