Exploring Specific Use Cases and
Customer Successes with
Informatica ILM
David Hermanski, Managing Director
Data Management Practice
SSG Limited ∙ Dallas, Texas
Bridging the gap between vision and implementation™
Agenda
 Brief Introduction to SSG Limited
 Overview and Engagement Philosophy
 Billing & Revenue Management Practice
 Data Management Practice
 Exploring Specific Use Cases with Informatica ILM
 Data Archive | Application Retirement
 Data Subset | Divestitures
 Data Privacy | Persistent & Dynamic Masking
 Questions and Discussion
Bridging the gap between vision and implementation™
SSG Introduction & Overview
SSG Limited is a software professional services firm committed to
building long lasting, trust-based client relationships by leveraging
our expertise and doing what we say we are going to do.
 Founded in 1997, with offices in Dallas and Denver.
 Solution “focus” around best-of-breed technologies in two primary
practice areas:
 Billing & Revenue Management Practice
 Data Management Practice
 Engagement Philosophy – Produce uncommon results for our clients
with small “special forces” of very experienced SSG team members
committed to iterative successes.
Billing & Revenue Management Practice
 Oracle Billing & Revenue Management (BRM) Practice
 Oracle Premier BRM Partner
 14 years of experience in complex telecommunications billing
environments implementing Oracle Communications BRM, a fully
convergent, real-time enterprise revenue management application for
Communications, Media and Cloud Service Providers.
 SSG BRM Services
 Deployment | Customization | Integration | Optimization | Upgrade |
Migration | Support
 SSG BRM Packaged Solutions
 BRMmart™ | ExpirationSolver™ | BRMIntegrator™ | AccountArchiver™
Data Management Practice
 Data Management Practice
 Delivering expert Oracle DW/BI Project Consulting Services
 Solutions Sales around the Informatica Platform and related
Professional Services addressing Extended Enterprise Data
Integration, Data Quality, Application ILM, Master Data
Management and Cloud Data Integration.
SSG Awards & Recognition
Our effort to do the right things the right way has earned
SSG recognition and the respect of our partners, peers and
employees.
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2011 Tech Titans Finalist (Metroplex Technology Business Council)
2010, 2009, 2008 Dallas Business Journal “Best Places to Work“
2010 Dallas 100 Award (SMU Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship)
2009 Vistage CEO Annual Achievement Award
Oracle Gold Business Partner
Informatica Business Partner
Use Cases and Customer Successes
with Informatica ILM
Bridging the gap between vision and implementation™
Data Archive | Data Subset Use Case
Leading Provider of Digital Office Solutions and Innovative Document Management
Systems, Software & Services
KEY BUSINESS IMPERATIVE AND IT INITIATIVE
Increase operational efficiency by managing spiraling data growth
Reduce the cost of data storage
Ensure the company can respond to customer requests rapidly
THE ILM CHALLENGE
INFORMATICA SOLUTION BENEFITS
Spiralling data growth on Oracle E-Business
Suite at 2 TB / year
Addressed data growth challenge for both
production & non-production environments
With multiple database copies in nonproduction environments, total database
size would reach 80 TB very quickly
Depth / Breadth of Application Accelerators
and customize business rule extensibility
Unacceptable application response times
Growing infrastructure cost
Reduced costs by $2M annually, equivalent to
a complete ROI in only six months
Gained 18.8 TB of storage capacity (14 TB via
Data Subset and 4.8 TB via Data Archive)
Growing inability to back up data
Reduced back up window by 40%
Data Archive | Data Subset Use Case
Global Leader in Specialty Plastic Film Manufacturing and North America’s Largest
Manufacturer of Residential Garage Doors
KEY BUSINESS IMPERATIVE AND IT INITIATIVE
Reduce management, software, and hardware costs associated with Oracle data
Manage data growth arising from expanding Oracle E-Business Suite
deployment and business growth
Optimize performance of the application infrastructure
THE ILM CHALLENGE
INFORMATICA SOLUTION BENEFITS
Data across production, test and
development environments growing
4.5 TB / YR
Production database size maintained at 6 TB, a
50% reduction, yielding major savings in
terms of primary storage and server costs
Reliance on an on-demand model meant
growth was costing business significantly
more in storage and hardware costs
Payback within less than 1.5 years
Experienced 30% improvement in application
performance
Address declining application performance
Provided staff with seamless access to archive
Provide seamless access to archived data
from existing application interfaces
Reduce backup and recovery windows
Ensured backup processes comfortably fit
within backup window
Application Retirement Use Case
Mega Merger Combining Two of the World’s Largest Research-Based Pharmaceutical
Companies
KEY BUSINESS IMPERATIVE AND IT INITIATIVE
Support an enormous Application Rationalization program across the new entity
Drive activities to support vast infrastructure cost reduction goals
Maintain access and manage retention of data from any decommissioned apps
THE ILM CHALLENGE
Provide standard and robust end-to-end
support for retiring potentially thousands of
applications
Desire to save $4B through merger
integration programs in first 36 months,
application retirement activity represented
major contribution
Needed a solution to begin work within
3 months
Maintain Business Objects access to any
retired data
INFORMATICA SOLUTION BENEFITS
Enterprise Standard Solution for retiring up to
2,500 legacy applications
Retire 34 instances of JD Edwards from
acquired company
Conducted two POCs over 4 week period
Optimized file archive with up to 98% data
compression, providing access via
Informatica Data Discovery Portal and
Business Objects
Data Subset | Divestiture Use Case
Multinational Supplier of Engineered Materials and Natural Resources fully divests a
Performance Minerals Division in sale to a Private Equity Capital Fund
KEY BUSINESS IMPERATIVE AND IT INITIATIVE
Support rapid and complete divestiture from parent company
Enable the new business to be operational more quickly and at reduced cost
Minimize the risk associated with divestiture strategy
THE ILM CHALLENGE
Automate an Informatica Data Subset
solution to create a smaller (yet complete)
targeted instance of the Oracle E-Business
Suite from the complexity of the parent
company’s heavily integrated Oracle data,
with more than 600 custom tables
Bring speed and effectiveness to the process
while meeting the needs of all stakeholders
(regulatory authorities and shareholders,
executives and staff of both entities)
In the final “production” run, fully divest the
two companies over a weekend
INFORMATICA SOLUTION BENEFITS
Saved more than $1M in avoiding ERP
implementation costs, people costs, and
temporary hosting costs
Enabled divested business to launch an
effective operational Oracle E-Business Suite
six months more quickly than other divestiture
strategies – able to target, acquire and
support customers more quickly
Ensured all sensitive parent data deleted,
Subset solution created divested Oracle
EBS system within 24 hours
Data Archive | Data Subset | Data Mask
Leading Provider of Comprehensive Onshore Energy Production Services
KEY BUSINESS IMPERATIVE AND IT INITIATIVE
- Enterprise Wide Siebel Field Service and Billing Platform | DGA 310GB -> 400GB+
- Adding many concurrent users w/Mobility Initiative (ticketing, inv. control, asset mgmt)
- Improve then Maintain Application Performance & Manageability | Seamless Access
- Enterprise Data Archiving Platform (Siebel first, the Oracle EBS and Legacy Systems)
Global Medical Technology Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Company
KEY BUSINESS IMPERATIVE AND IT INITIATIVE
- Fully divesting an international division (approximately 25% of the business)
- Customized Oracle EBS (US EMEA HR), custom Oracle OE, Fld Service & Ins. Billing Apps
- Support rapid divestiture, enable new ownership entity to be operational immediately
- Combine Data Subset and Data Masking to ensure absolute parent data privacy
Leading Independent Worldwide Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Company
KEY BUSINESS IMPERATIVE AND IT INITIATIVE
- Complex comprehensive Oracle EBS installation and federated EDW (OBIA and custom)
- Data Subset & PDM to reduce general data proliferation and support JV data needs
- Dynamic Data Masking requirement for production Oracle HR / HR Analytics (OBIEE)
Questions and Discussion
David Hermanski, Managing Director
Data Management Practice
SSG Limited ∙ Dallas, Texas
dhermanski@ssglimited.com