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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.