Archive Checkered Flag: Why Optim wins the Data Archival Race ?

Last week, I had been to a get-together wherein my friends had arranged for a meeting. People from different technology backgrounds were amongst the young energetic crowd. I remember discussing about some of the technical aspects in the present corporate world. One of the discussion was about archiving data : There was a wide misconception that performing database backups were referred to as data archival,… Infact that’s only one of the true factors. Moving on to the reasons behind archival is not only the need for a backup but for improving the performance.

As a first step people tend to move towards database optimization (Rule based or Cost Based), even then if there is no improvement in the database performance – Data Archival is the only solution.Having decided to go for database archival, there are a lot of products / Tools available in the market.

One of such Tools is the Princeton Softec’s Optim – Data Archival Tool. The Tool attracts the users with one of its four best processes – the Restore Process. Not all data archival tool concentrates in restoring the original data after the data archive. Optim has a feature of restoring the original data that was archived even before couple of years.And also even when the datamodel changes, archived data can be restored. Even if the archived data is corrupted the original data is restorable.Having known about Optim’s unique feature.Let me provide its brief overview.

Optim constitutes of four basic processes,

1. Archive Process
2. Delete Process
3. Restore Process
4. Browse Utility

Archival of data can be performed on any of the modules of Peoplesoft. Some of the reasons which urge the Peoplesoft users to move to data archival are

• Frustration of business users trying to complete the on-line Peoplsoft functions.
• Employees unable to access pay cheque information.
• Peoplesoft Payroll users unable to enter required employee data information in order to meet timeliness                                                                                          

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Race to Victory

In the world of Formula One Racing, ‘Pit Stop’ is a common term. During the race day and pit stops, One could see almost all the components of the car being maintained/changed by the crew . Ranging from the nuts and bolts to the engine, everything is under quick and fast maintenance. Similarily, in the corporate world – each and every company acts as a race car and to improve their performance and to grow quicker: they are in need of such Pit Stop Crew. In the real-time, it would contain a variety of software products that supports their Company Resources which consists their Human Resources, Material Resources, Financial Resources, etc.. To be specific products like Peoplesoft, SAP, Kronos, OrgPlus, SumTotal, Docent, Optim, and IDE’s like Application Designer, Docent Outliner, Business Intelligence Development Studio, JBuilder, NetBeans are widely used. Lets see what makes the companies to choose a product and how it plays a unique role in enhancing the overall companies performance. We will also come across the differences and unique features of the products that urges the companies to use it. Pit Stop will cover the product specific comparisons, Technology specific advantages, and finally the service oriented architecture. 
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Peoplesoft Time and Labor Vs Kronos Workforce TimeKeeper

Couple of weeks back, the google news portal was crawling in almost many a news source pages about Kronos and its upperhand than that of the renowned Peoplesoft’s Time and Labour Module. I was surprised to see the once market leader in Human Resources is being overthrown by the Kronos Workforce Central Suite. Yes, the reason being ,.. Kronos had worked hardly in identifying the end user’s concerns and various other problems that they were facing with Peoplesoft. For example : The Time and Labour module contains a feature in which the employee work hours are being tracked and fed back into the Payroll module for the Pay Calculations and Pay Cheque creations. Its found that ” after the fact / historical changes “ was not possible to follow with Peoplesoft whereas Kronos Workforce Time Keeper module supports the same. Many a peoplesoft clients are retaining their payroll in peoplesoft and are moving towards the product kronos for one of this reason.
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