End-of-Life Applications
Applications reach their end of life (EOL) for a number of reasons: changing business or market needs, M&A activity, cost reduction and business optimization strategies, application rationalization strategies, or technology innovations that make the current application obsolete.
While the application may have reached its EOL, the underlying data that supports it may still be valuable to the organization – whether for business decision making, business intelligence, an e-discovery process, or any other business process. This data may also still need protection from unauthorized use and distribution. Yet often, the technical and business staff familiar with content, functionality and the technical specifications of the application have moved on, and no-one in the organization really knows what data exists, how to access it and what needs protection.
Access Valuable Data from EOL Applications with AccessLogic
AccessLogic is an information access solution, designed for business users, that organizes information based on your business.
AccessLogic automatically identifies and structures all your unstructured or record based data, including data in the EOL application, consistently by its business context. It then correlates and centralizes the relevant business information you need from across all business applications and repositories in one interface – without having to know what information actually exists, which application it’s stored in, how it’s named, or how to access it in its native application.
With AccessLogic all the information you need to make good business decisions is right there for you.
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Migrate Valuable Data from EOL Applications with AccessLogic
With AccessLogic you can easily identify the valuable business data in your EOL application that you wish to retain and move into alternative applications. Then, through AccessLogic you can define migration policies for the data you want to migrate, including default locations and hierarchies, based on its business context. AccessLogic then automatically moves the data into the pre-defined locations based on policies defined - without the need for any administration or user intervention.
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Protect Valuable Data within EOL Applications with ClassLogic
With AccessLogic you can easily identify the valuable business data in your EOL application that you still need to protect against unauthorized use and distribution. Then, through ClassLogic, Security and Compliance Officers can easily define and maintain access, distribution, encryption, and audit policies for the information based on its business context. ClassLogic automatically translates these policies into permissions for each file and can seamlessly integrate with DLP and DRM products for enforcement of these policies.
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Take Advantage of valuable data in EOL applications even after they are decommissioned:
- Get to know what data you have in your EOL application – without having to know how it’s named, or how to access it in the native application
- Take advantage of business data in EOL applications after you decommission them or the staff who know how to use them are gone
- Determine which data to protect in your EOL application
- Figure out what data to migrate out of the EOL application