Software AG Introduces Data Archiving for Adabas

Software AG today announced the availability of Data Archiving for Adabas – a feature-rich tool that lowers the operating costs of Adabas on any platform by removing infrequently used data from the production database and storing it into a long-term archive. Data Archiving for Adabas provides automated archiving functions and robust tools for search, verification, extraction, restore and recovery. In this way, Data Archiving for Adabas helps organizations meet current and emerging data retention requirements such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II and others while reducing the load on the production database.

"Our customers asked for a solution that would not only reduce the size of their production databases but comply with data retention requirements and we delivered,” said Dr. Peter Kuerpick, Chief Product Officer and Member of the Executive Board, Software AG. "With as much as 85 percent of database content typically dormant, organizations can save money, boost response time, and increase availability with the use of Data Archiving for Adabas. By just taking the data they don’t need every day, removing it from their production database and storing it in a vault for future reference or audit, customers can reduce the load on their production database and save up to 30 percent in storage costs.”

Proactive Compliance

Most companies have multiple Adabas databases, often on different servers. Any audit would necessitate a costly data "dump” from multiple databases and a painful, inefficient data search. With Data Archiving for Adabas, database administrators can remove terabytes of historical and infrequently used data from multiple production databases and deposit it into a "vault”. The vault can be another Adabas database or a set of intelligently managed files on Linux, UNIX, Windows or Mainframe platforms. Since archives from multiple Adabas databases are stored in a single storage vault and archived data is now searchable using an embedded query function, the cost and time for search and retrieval in the case of audit is minimized since everything is in one archive repository. Through this consolidation, users are also able to proactively discover data holes or overlap before compliance-related issues arise.

Cost Savings

With Data Archiving for Adabas, the data is deleted in the source database as soon as it is stored safely in the vault thus decreasing the size of the production database. This produces cost savings from reduced consumption of Direct Access Storage Devices (DASD) and Central Processing Unit (CPU) resources. By only keeping needed information on the production database, less storage device elements are required to be searched and less CPU is required to perform calculations and processes. For some organizations, moving infrequently used data onto less expensive storage devices creates savings by deferring hardware upgrades.

Improved Performance

By archiving data from the production database with Data Archiving for Adabas, users will experience faster Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) application performance because of the reduced load on the CPU. This also reduces the time required to perform backups and database reorganizations thus improving system availability. Data Archiving for Adabas also provides a filter which allows users to select the most important data to archive. This fine-grained capability reduces the time and storage required for archiving while still reducing the CPU load on the production database.

"Software AG’s technology has helped us reduce the amount of data in the production environment saving us money on DASD, CPU and chargeback costs,” said Mike Conena, Database Administrator for The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Their MassHealth eligibility system, or MA21—MassHealth application for the 21^st century—is a system developed in Adabas/Natural that determines whether residents who can’t afford health insurance are eligible for benefits. More than one million state residents are recipients of some MassHealth benefit. EOHHS is the biggest user of Software AG products within the state and The MA21 System is growing quickly. According to Conena, "Our MA21 application still has all of its data since it’s inception in 1998. Data Archiving for Adabas will help us reduce the size of the production database yet still retain key data in case it’s needed again.”

With an intuitive browser-based user interface, Data Archiving for Adabas enables database administrators to perform all necessary tasks to establish the archive environment, define actions, archive unattended, search, recall and validate data with little to no training. Data Archiving for Adabas provides built-in restart and recovery in case an archiving action is interrupted—no extensive procedure is required. With the time savings provided by the automated functions, database administrators save time and are free to tackle other tasks.

Data Archiving for Adabas is available now. Visit the website for details.

About IDS Scheer

IDS Scheer is part of the Software AG Group and a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software, solutions and services for corporations and public organizations worldwide. With the ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, the company offers an integrated, comprehensive solution portfolio for the strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes, allowing companies to continuously improve their overall business performance. Utilizing the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach, IDS Scheer consultants bridge the gap between corporate strategy, business processes, IT solutions and process controlling. For IDS Scheer press information, please visit www.ids-scheer.com/us/press.

About Software AG

With more than 1,000 U.S.-enterprise customers and 800 employees, Software AG's U.S. operation contributes one third of the company's total revenue and is Software AG's largest market presence and R&D location. Software AG has operated nationwide in the U.S. since 1973 through a fully-owned subsidiary, Software AG USA Inc., which is headquartered in Reston, Virginia – also an R&D hub for the company’s core data management and integration technologies. R&D labs for the development of Software AG’s webMethods product suite – offering SOA integration and BPM solutions – include facilities in San José/Silicon Valley, Seattle and Denver. For more information, visit www.softwareag.com/us.

Software AG is the global leader in Business Process Excellence. Our 40 years of innovation include the invention of the first high-performance transactional database, Adabas; the first business process analysis platform, ARIS; and the first B2B server and SOA-based integration platform, webMethods. We are unique in offering the world’s only end-to-end – and easiest to use – business process management (BPM) solutions, with the lowest Total-Cost-of-Ownership. Our industry-leading brands, ARIS, webMethods, Adabas, Natural and IDS Scheer Consulting, represent a unique portfolio for: process strategy, design, integration and control; SOA-based integration and data management; process-driven SAP implementation; and strategic process consulting and services.

Software AG had revenues of € 847 million in 2009 and has more than 6,000 employees serving 10,000 enterprise and public institution customers across 70 countries. Our comprehensive software and services solutions allow companies to continuously achieve their business results faster. The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW).

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