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These convenient webcasts  run right on your desktop, and last about an hour.

On Demand Webcasts

Access our library of recorded webcasts. These webcasts cover a variety of topics that range from enterprise data management strategies to application specific solutions, and speak to the critical business issues, such as information governance, business continuity and infrastructure simplification.

 


Data Masking Essentials for SAP Software

During this webcast, you will learn about:
  • What’s involved in safeguarding confidential data and what areas are often overlooked.
  • How to leverage proven data masking techniques to protect privacy in non-production SAP application environments.
  • Real-world examples and lessons learned from the experiences of other organizations that that have implemented data masking techniques versus organizations that have not.
Start today with practical approaches that help you support your SAP development and testing requirements, while protecting the privacy of sensitive customer and business information.


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Essentials of Data Privacy for Siebel CRM

The measures that protect data in Siebel production environments do not meet the unique requirements of non-production (development, testing and training) environments. Industry analysts recommend methods for masking or de-identifying data as a best practice for protecting sensitive information across non-production environments.

Gain an understanding of how data privacy compliance can affect your business.

Learn what to look for in the ideal data privacy solution, including application-aware, context-aware and persistent data masking capabilities, and how Optim’s proven data masking techniques will help you meet your current and future data privacy compliance requirements for Siebel CRM.


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The ROI of Packaged Application Instance Consolidation

Enterprises embarking of instance consolidation efforts often yeild significant ROI. However, these efforts should be done in the context of a long-term application strategy.

Join Ray Wang, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research as he discusses
  • How implementing a data management strategy that includes archiving and upgrades can help support application instance consolidation
  • The four factors that determine the ROI of instance consolidation for packaged applications
  • How to calculate the ROI and analyze the Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) for your organization
  • How the advantages of instance consolidation can be part of your organization's long-term application strategy
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Upgrade Strategies for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne: Leveraging Archiving Best Practices

As a recognized best practice, database archiving allows organizations to streamline the upgrade process, minimizing costly disruption and improving performance.

Learn how IBM® Optim™, with its proven database archiving capabilities, can help your organization:
  • Reduce time to upgrade and “go live” into production, while minimizing downtime during the conversion.
  • Control costs associated with application upgrade time, resources and maintenance.
  • Increase your ability to satisfy data retention compliance requirements, ensuring that historical reference data remains accessible, even after applications have been upgraded
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Essentials for Test Data Management for Siebel

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

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Anatomy of a Siebel Archiving Project

The IBM® Optim™ Data Growth Solution for Siebel® CRM offers fully integrated database archiving capabilities that understand Siebel's complex database schema and unique data relationships. Learn the critical success factors for your Siebel archiving project – and the pitfalls to avoid.

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Anatomy of an Archiving Project for PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

The IBM® Optim™ Data Growth Solution for PeopleSoft® Enterprise Campus Solutions offers fully integrated database archiving capabilities that can help improve application performance, increase availability and control costs, with measurable benefits. Learn how effective enterprise data management strategies that include database archiving can maximize the value of your investment in PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions.

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Upgrade and Archive Strategies for Oracle E-Business Suite

If you rely on Oracle E-Business, you've got an upgrade project somewhere on your horizon. We offer effective enterprise data management solutions with best practice database archiving capabilities that can help. By incorporating archiving into your Oracle upgrade, you can ensure project success – from day one!

Learn how Oracle E-Business Suite sites can:

  • Reduce time to upgrade and “go live” into production, while minimizing downtime during the conversion
  • Control costs associated with application upgrade time, resources and maintenance
  • Increase your ability to satisfy data retention compliance requirements, ensuring that historical reference data remains accessible, even after applications have been upgraded
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Understanding Data Governance in Canada: Protecting Your Assets, Your Company and Your Customers

Canadian organizations face many challenges when focusing on data governance, protecting privacy, and meeting these requirements within foreign markets. Learn about analyst-recommended best practices for protecting confidential data across enterprise applications and databases.

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Data Management Essentials: IBM Optim Data Growth, Data Management and Data Privacy Solutions

Controlling data growth, improving application testing, and protecting data privacy are major areas of concern. Optim provides solutions for companies who are cloning databases for testing, masking private data and attempting to comply with data regulations for retention and e-discovery.

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Don't Let a Data Meltdown Ruin your Latest Merger or Acquisition

Mergers and acquisitions present many data management challenges. An effective enterprise data management strategy and early IT involvement are essential. Learn how you can manage data growth, retire or consolidate redundant applications, protect data privacy and improve data management across your new enterprise.

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Data Management Strategies in Support of Data Governance

Data Governance strategies apply across application production and non-production (development, testing and training) environments. Learn how database archiving supports data retention, security and compliance in production environments, while test data management capabilities help protect privacy and improve application reliability.

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Closing the Gap: Addressing an Overlooked and Exploited Portion of the PCI DSS

Every organization that processes cardholder data must protect privacy. Learn how IBM Optim provides proven data masking techniques can help you comply with PCI DSS requirements and protect privacy in non-production (development, testing and training) environments.

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Upgrade and Archive Strategies for PeopleSoft Enterprise

If you rely on PeopleSoft® Enterprise, you've got an upgrade project somewhere on your horizon. We offer effective enterprise data management solutions with best practice database archiving capabilities that can help. By incorporating archiving into your PeopleSoft Enterprise upgrade, you can ensure project success – from day one!

Learn how peopleSoft Enterprise sites can:
  • Reduce time to upgrade and “go live” into production, while minimizing downtime during the conversion
  • Control costs associated with application upgrade time, resources and maintenance
  • Increase your ability to satisfy data retention compliance requirements, ensuring that historical reference data remains accessible, even after applications have been upgraded
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Creating a Secure Test Environment Podcast (MP3 format)

How can you provide the realistic data your organization needs to ensure accurate application testing, while still protecting privacy? Listen as Enterprise Systems Journal's Editorial Director, Jim Powell, conducts a podcast interview with IBM Optim's Product Marketing Manager and CIPP, Eric Offenberg, on the topic of “Creating a Secure Testing Environment.” During the interview, Eric discusses the dilemma of setting up secure test environments and explains how Optim's techniques for de-identifying data are essential for protecting data in non-production (development, testing and training) environments.

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Abysmal: The State of Data Retention

With the advent of Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC17a, Basel II and other laws that focus on data retention and accountability, companies across industries are at a higher risk for audits and potential lawsuits. In addition, recent updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have placed an increased burden on IT organizations to produce data as part of a civil or criminal “e-discovery” request.

Barry Murphy, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, is a featured speaker and a leading expert on all things retention: records management, content archiving and electronic discovery. Learn more about the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure guidelines for e-discovery, as well as the challenges of data retention compliance to support e-discovery requirements.


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Tradeoffs and Tactics for Test Environments

Creating test environments can be a challenge. An ideal test environment should be “production-like” in scale and complexity. But, this costly task does not have to break the bank. Making simple improvements to creating and managing your development processes can save you time and money.

Our featured speaker is Carey Schwaber, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. Carey’s work at Forrester focuses on application development processes, practices and tools. She is recognized for her thought leadership in the areas of application development process and methodologies, application life-cycle management, testing, quality assurance and agile processes.


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Your Five-Year Applications Management Strategy

Without a long-term applications strategy, organizations run the risk of forever fighting an endless inferno of IT fires, resulting in a business that's stymied by its own technology. Listen as Ray Wang, Principle Analyst, Forrester Research, makes a case for a long-term strategy for packaged applications.

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Protecting Your Company and Your Customers: Understanding Data Governance for JD Edwards

Data Governance initiatives for managing your vital EnterpriseOne data require implementing policies, procedures and standards to protect data in both production and non-production (development, testing and training) environments.

How can you create a consistent, enterprise view of your organization’s data in a way that ensures data security, improves decision making, reduces risk of fines and maximizes the business value of your data?


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Strategies for Successful Data Governance

Data Governance initiatives for managing your vital enterprise application data require implementing policies, procedures and standards to protect data in both production and non-production (development, testing and training) environments.

Our IBM Optim Data Governance experts address data governance challenges in two comprehensive segments:
  • Data Governance in Production Environments – “Archiving Strategies to Support Data Retention, Security and Compliance Requirements,” will examine the full anatomy of an archiving project
  • Data Governance in Non-Production Environments – “Managing Test Data Effectively and Ensuring Data Privacy in the Testing Environment,” will examine the full anatomy of a data privacy project
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Better, Faster, Cheaper: Improving Application Development

Developing enhancements and new functionality is critical for maintaining the ERP, CRM and custom enterprise applications that drive your business initiatives. But, how can you meet aggressive release schedules and control costs, while ensuring application quality and reliability?

Learn how Optim offers best practice test data management capabilities that streamline testing processes and ensure reliable results.


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Dieting is Not Just for People, It’s for Databases, Too!

Learn how database archiving can improve the way you manage continued application data growth to boost service levels and lower costs across your enterprise. This webcast explains the benefits of:
  • Proactive data management strategies to mitigate the risks of continuous growth
  • Comprehensive database archiving capabilities that allow you to apply business policies to manage data at each stage of the information lifecycle and store data securely and cost effectively
  • Aligning data growth management with your business objectives for each category of application data
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Retirement: It’s not just for people anymore!

Periodically reviewing application portfolios allows companies to identify underperforming or redundant applications to determine where continued maintenance and resource consumption outweighs business and operational value. It makes good business sense to retire or consolidate these applications to improve operational efficiencies, reduce risk and lower costs. Learn how Optim provides proven capabilities that facilitate application retirement/decommissioning projects, while ensuring continued access to valuable application data.

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Protecting Sensitive Customer Data Before It’s Too Late! … Featuring a MasterCard Perspective

Paul S. Baker, VP of Advanced Payment Solutions at MasterCard highlights compliance issues surrounding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Learn more about:
  • Why merchants, retailers and financial organizations that process or transmit cardholder data should implement a strategy for PCI compliance
  • What MasterCard is doing to ensure compliance with PCI requirements
  • How masking/de-identifying data can mitigate the internal threat, as mandated by the PCI DSS
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Anatomy of a PeopleSoft Archiving Project - Top Issues to Consider

PeopleSoft sites worldwide rely on archiving as a best practice to control costs, improve service levels and automate data retention across Human Resources, Financial Management, Supply Chain and other business areas. As with any major project, up-front planning drives success.

What are the major components of archiving? What are the benefits? What factors should sites consider to successfully implement a full lifecycle data management strategy? How did companies like Toronto Dominion Bank, Wendy’s, Giant Eagle and others gain archiving benefits and ensure the success of their PeopleSoft archiving projects?

Learn how companies like Toronto Dominion Bank, Wendy’s, Giant Eagle and others gained archiving benefits and ensured the success of their PeopleSoft archiving projects.


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Anatomy of an Oracle E-Business Suite Archiving Project - Top Issues to Consider

Oracle E-Business sites worldwide rely on archiving as a best practice to control costs, improve service levels and automate data retention across Financial Management, Human Resources, Supply Chain and other ERP business areas.

As with any major project, up-front planning drives success. What are the major components of archiving? What are the benefits? What factors should sites consider to successfully implement a full lifecycle data management strategy?

Learn how Oracle E-Business sites use comprehensive enterprise data management and archiving best practices to deliver measurable benefits.


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Anatomy of a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Archiving Project - Top Issues to Consider

JD Edwards sites worldwide rely on archiving to align continuous control of their application data with their business objectives – optimizing performance, mitigating risks and controlling costs.

As with any major project, up-front planning drives success. What are the major components of archiving? What are the benefits? What factors should sites consider to successfully implement a full lifecycle data management strategy?

Learn how JD Edwards sites use comprehensive enterprise data management and archiving best practices to deliver measurable benefits.


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Largest Siebel Client Sets Sight on "Four Nines"

As a recognized best practice, database archiving has helped Siebel sites worldwide manage enterprise application data to meet service level goals and mitigate risk. Segregating and removing historical CRM records, like activities and service requests, from current information in the Siebel production environment can deliver consistent SLA performance.

Learn about the experience of a major Siebel site which has leveraged a data management strategy to streamline the Siebel database, improve operational efficiencies and control costs.


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The Easiest Way to Expose Private Data... And How to Prevent It

Data privacy is a difficult issue for corporations to address. The vast of amount of confidential customer information that is collected needs to be protected.

Gain an understanding of the latest regulations surrounding data privacy and learn about a proven solution to help address these issues. Find out what information is most vulnerable to breach, and how you can protect your data, your customers and your organization from such violations with one effective solution. Listen to a comprehensive discussion on the subject of data privacy and its significance in today’s marketplace.


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Control Data Growth...Before it Controls You! Enterprise Data Management Strategies to Increase Business Value

Learn how enterprise data management can help you simplify your infrastructure and control storage costs while enabling you to achieve desired service levels for your business. We will address the negative impact of explosive data growth and the capabilities necessary for managing your information successfully.

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Improve Performance, Mitigate Risks, Control Costs: Enterprise Data Management Strategies for Siebel

What are the Siebel business drivers? How can you formulate a comprehensive management strategy for one of your most important enterprise data applications? Learn how you can reduce time on hold, speed inquiry resolution, and increase call center operating efficiency. We will show you how to take back control over you Siebel expenses.

Listen to a review of how enterprise data management strategies to help Siebel sites provide superior customer service at the lowest cost.


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Enterprise Data Management: Strategies to Increase Business Effectiveness

This comprehensive webcast will review strategies for optimizing performance, mitigating risk and controlling costs to gain the most business value. Now you can implement enterprise data management strategies to achieve your business objectives. It is time to take a proactive approach for managing enterprise application data.

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