In an era of rapid digital transformation, many enterprises running Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) are facing significant challenges: uncontrolled data growth, ballooning infrastructure costs, performance bottlenecks, and regulatory compliance pressures. Solix’s Cloud Data Management solution for Oracle E-Business Suite offers a purpose-built approach to archive, govern, and retire EBS data — helping organisations reclaim performance, control costs, and ensure compliance.
The Imperative for EBS Data Management
Explosive Data Growth
As businesses evolve, their EBS environments accumulate large volumes of historical transactional and custom data — which increasingly clogs system backups, slows queries, and complicates maintenance.
Legacy Application & Infrastructure Cost
Even if you’ve moved to a new ERP, you may still need to keep old EBS instances for compliance or reference — costing time, money, and IT resources.
Compliance and Governance Demands
Regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, HIPAA demand rigorous retention, retrieval, and legal-hold capabilities for enterprise data. Unmanaged EBS data introduces risk.
Performance and Upgrade Drag
Large active databases hinder upgrades, slow batch jobs, lengthen backups, and degrade user experience. A leaner database means faster migrations and better agility.
How Solix Solves These Problems for Oracle E-Business Suite
Solix’s solution, anchored on the Solix Common Data Platform (CDP), brings 20+ years of experience working with EBS and supports both archiving and application retirement for full lifecycle data management.
Application Retirement
When an EBS instance is no longer actively used (e.g., after ERP migration or consolidation), Solix enables:
- Decommissioning legacy EBS systems while retaining accessible archival data.
- Self-service access for business users to archived transactions and reports.
- Significant cost savings by eliminating redundant infrastructure.
Database Archiving
For active EBS systems that are bloated:
- Solix identifies low-value/inactive data and moves it out of the production database, reducing size and improving performance.
- Maintains user access to archived data, including optional de-archiving.
- Uses pre-built knowledge bases for over 50 EBS modules (reducing implementation complexity) and supports custom data too.
Compliance & Governance
Beyond archiving, Solix provides:
- Policy-based data retention and purging aligned with regulatory frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, PCI, HIPAA)
- Advanced full-text search, legal-hold support, archiving of structured/semi-structured/unstructured data.
- Metadata management and unified governance across the data lifecycle.
What Organisations Get — Key Benefits
- Reduced infrastructure costs: By shrinking the active database and retiring unnecessary EBS environments, you lower storage, backup, maintenance and licensing expenses.
- Improved system performance: Smaller, leaner databases respond faster, backups complete quicker, and batch jobs finish sooner — turning time-wasted into productive capacity.
- Reduced risk & improved compliance: Archived data remains searchable, discoverable and governed — you’re ready for audits, legal holds, and regulatory demands.
- Business continuity & access: Archived information remains accessible via familiar user interfaces; no more “data graveyards”.
- Future-ready ERP strategy: Whether you stay on EBS or migrate to a new platform, Solix’s archive and retirement strategy gives you flexibility and control.
Real-World Example
For instance, one user of Oracle E-Business Suite engaged Solix to archive data and shrink their database size by ~25 %. That reduction allowed them to migrate to new hardware much faster, with backups and daily operations executing significantly better.
Implementation Considerations & Best Practices
- Define clear archive criteria: Identify which modules, years, transaction types are candidates for archiving and retirement.
- Establish data retention policies: Map business, regulatory and legal requirements; ensure rules are well-documented and enforceable.
- Ensure seamless access to archived data: Must preserve business user workflows, reporting and auditing through familiar interfaces.
- Plan change management: Educate stakeholders on how archiving impacts data access, performance, and system behaviour.
- Monitor outcomes and refine: Track key metrics — database size, backup duration, batch job runtime, cost savings — then iterate your archiving strategy.
Why Choose Solix?
- Oracle validated integration with Oracle E-Business Suite — gives assurance in compatibility and performance.
- Deep domain expertise: 20+ years working with EBS, pre-built templates for 50+ modules, full lifecycle support.
- End-to-end solution: Solix develops, implements and supports the complete stack — not just a point-tool.
- Cloud-native, multi-cloud deployment flexibility, and modular for archiving, retirement, governance.
Conclusion
If your organisation runs Oracle E-Business Suite and is grappling with data bloat, legacy systems, compliance pressure, or architectural inertia — Solix’s Cloud Data Management solution offers a strategic and tactical path forward. By archiving wisely, retiring unused applications, and enforcing governance, you gain performance, cost efficiency, flexibility and control. Don’t let your EBS environment become a liability — turn it into a streamlined, governed asset.
