19-20 November, 2008 | Copenhagen

Data Management: Intelligent Data Management, Purge and Archive Capabilities Sri SrinivasanGPM , AX PerformanceMicrosoft Corporation

AX10

Agenda

● Problem Statement● Core Archiving Requirements● Archiving Roadmap● Design Tenets● Architecture● Preview Demo

Archiving: Problem Statement & Need for Tooling

High Data Growth Rate

Large Database

Size

Manageability

Core Archiving Asks: What is required?

Core Requirements P1 P2 P3

View Data For Daily Transactional Analysis

View Data For Historical Trending

View Data for Audits

Enhance Online Database Manageability

Restore Objects from Archive to Online

Analyze / Classify / Growth Trend Capabilities (Usability)

Support for Viewing thru multiple media types

Upgrade Capabilities for Archive

Archive Data needs to be AX Consistent

Offline data without affecting online system

Core Features out of Requirements● Database Layout Intelligence● Business Usage Intelligence● Intelligent Alerting● Automatic Configurability of Business Objects● Master Data Synchronization Capability● Ability to Purge● Ability to Archive with Financial Year as

starting point● Ability to Offline an Unused Company● Ability to restore data*● Extensive Scheduling Capabilities● Extensive Audit trails for Purge and Archive

Archiving Solution: Roadmap

• High growth identification tools• Intelligent Identifier where Purge is required • Provide comprehensive Purge Utilities• Base Archive Framework in place• Data Size Reduction – 10-30%• Data Growth Reduction – 10% to 25%

V1 Optimization & Purge Q1 CY 09

Inactive Data Management: Design Principles

• Automatic Analysis of High Growth Areas• Usage Patterns Analyzed• Business Process Recommendations for enhanced Data

Management• Database Optimization Assistant

Data Analysis

Data Management : Architecture

AX Online DatabaseAX Online Database

Archive DatabaseArchive Database

AX Archive FrameworkAX Archive Framework

AX Data GrowthAnalyzer

AX Data GrowthAnalyzer

AX

Business Connector

COM / .Net

AX

Business Connector

COM / .Net

AOS

AX Object

Server

AOS

AX Object

Server

Ax Purge ManagerAx Purge Manager

Ax Archive Manager

Ax Archive Manager

Ax Archive View thru

SSRS

Ax Archive View thru

SSRS

Phase I

Phase II

Phase II

Empty Database

Reference

Active

AX Archive Service Explained

Inactive

Reference

Inactive

AX Archive Service

Active Database

Archive Database

Replicate Reference Data

Move Inactive Data from Active to Archive

Data Type Mode Frequency

Reference Data Copy Customer Configurable – Smart model to copy whole tables when change occurs

Inactive Data tied to Financials

Move Customer configures move after Fiscal Year Close. No System Downtime

Inactive data tied to Business events

Move Customer Configures on time or triggered by event – clean up quotes after campaign end date or BOM Price recalculations once quarter is closed

Active

Archive: How do Filter and Drive Out Data? Transaction in Closed Financial Year

ClosedAND

Any Additional Criteria

Settled

Sales Orders in Closed Financial Year

InvoicedAND

Cust Invoice Journals showing Posting

Not Project Controlled

Paid for

Example: Sales Orders

Archive: Fiscal Year Sliding Scale for Your ONLINE Database

2008* 2007 2006 2005 2004

2009* 2008 2007

2010* 2009 2008

FY 2008

FY 2009

FY 2010

Data Management:Analysis Goals

Identify High Growth Areas

Large Table AnalysisPartition Opportunity

Analysis

Usage Patterns AnalyzedUnused Index Analysis

Identify Purge Opportunities

Streamline cleanup of parm tablesAnalyze Cancelled/Draft Execution

Data

Provide Log/Trace/Old Benchmark Cleanup

Opportunities

Identify Business Process Optimizations

BOM/Production Recalculation Frequency/ Inventory Close Draft

Run Management/ Log Management

Quotation Cleanup Model/ Pictorial view of Batch/Alert

use and cleanup opportunities

Intelligent Data Management Early PreviewSri SrinivasanGPM, AX Performance

DEMO

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