JD Edwards Data Archiving and Purge with Purge-it!

We saw Purge-it! at a user conference and it seemed like it would be a good fit. We liked that it was OVI, looked and worked just like JDE, and that the investment would be low. We would be able to largely self-install and carry on going forward.

This project was more about increasing system performance than saving space. In testing, after archiving six years of data, we saw MRP runtime decrease by nearly 45%. Initial archiving in production has decreased MRP runtime by almost 15%.

Purge-it! is very well designed, easy to use, and has investigative tools to determine why a record did not get purged. Their customer service is outstanding. We are very pleased with our purchase.

We wish we had installed Purge-it! earlier! We have experienced a tremendous improvement in system performance and back up times. It’s never too late to look at purge and archive!

It is my opinion that Purge-it! is the most appropriate solution for archiving JD Edwards data. Central to this is the fact that with its use of JDE menus, you are immediately familiar with the software and not having to learn a completely new system. Purge-it! is very intuitive.

Implementation was very simple. Our training, which was provided remotely over 2 sessions, went very well. We had a good understanding of what to do and what we needed to do after those sessions. We were able to purge 1.25 terabytes of data which was about half of what we had before. Purge and archive routines were able to run successfully in the background whilst monitoring other applications.

It ticked all the boxes for us – simple yet powerful, easy access to data once it was archived, low consulting requirements. Being built right into EnterpriseOne and having the same look and feel made it more attractive to both us and our user community.

After evaluating the product internally and via product demonstrations, we decided upon Purge-it! due to our own findings but also due to recommendations that we had received from other companies. Purge-it! was developed specifically for JDE, required very little training, and allowed us a ‘proof’ and a ‘final’ run.

The support for Purge-it!, both for the product itself and on the JDE side, was amazing – one of the best experiences we have ever had with a supplier and partner. An investment in Purge-it! is a wise decision – we all know we need to purge and archive but we allow the fear of the project to hold us back. Purge-it! removes that fear and gives you peace of mind. I would recommend Purge-it! without hesitation.

Our plan was to keep 7 years of data in our production tables, so we archived about 6 months of data right away with our initial purge. It worked exactly as expected. We also uncovered data issues that would have otherwise gone totally unknown – this was a great side benefit for us.

It’s easy to get busy and leave purging and archiving projects as a ‘sometime down the road project’ but you don’t want to do this. Don’t be a ‘data hoarder’. If it’s time to purge your data, whether before an upgrade or not, then it’s in your best interest to clean it up. Purge with integrity so you don’t end up with data issues. Data clean up before an upgrade is strongly recommended. We are there and you should be too!

Purge-it! far surpassed our previous solution, there is no comparison.

During the purge and archive process, Purge-it! identified that we had a lot of data that was not closed, highlighting problem areas in our data.

We used the Purge-It! custom module to purge old accounts from our Address Book and related tables.  I processed over 40 batches of accounts and purged over 509,000 accounts!

We have cleared off about 12 years of data from Production since starting up and have made the purge and archive process part of our year end schedule.

I wanted to take the time to thank you for the support and professionalism during the last year to complete this project. Based on some estimates, we expect to save up to $4,000/month in AWS cost to maintain and run our JDE database. So this project is a great win for us, as it will also guarantee control growth in our JDE data and operations or the upcoming years. The removal of the divested company data cleared 2.4TB of data and standard archiving cleared another 540 GB. In total, 2.9 TB out of 3.9 TB (74%) was removed during the project.