The District of Saanich JD Edwards Purge-it! case study

Purging – A Project Whose Time Had Come

The District of Saanich is a municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, located north of the provincial capital, Victoria. With a population of over 100,000 people, it is the most populous municipality on Vancouver Island, and the seventh most populous in the province. The municipality is named after the Saanich First Nation, and means ‘emerging land’ or ‘emerging people’.

Utilizing the Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.11 system, the District of Saanich runs several of the core modules of EnterpriseOne including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing and Inventory. Saanich has been live on EnterpriseOne since 2003.

The Alternatives & the Selection

Being a public organization meant that due diligence needed to be performed. Saanich looked at the alternatives available in the marketplace for JD Edwards users including the main ones most customers would consider.

They arranged for presentations on the solutions and spoke to customers. In the end they selected the Purge-it! solution.

“The other solutions seemed more complicated, lower value, not as tightly integrated and not as easy to implement,” noted Terry MacLaren.

Quick Implementation, Stellar Support & Ongoing Purging

Once the decision was made to go forward with the Purge-it! product, the project was put into gear. As the Purge-it! product is built using the same tools that JD Edwards developers use, Saanich was able to install the product just like any other software update for JD Edwards. They resolved some non Purge-it! technical issues as part of the installation, and were through testing within 6 weeks (including time to work on other priorities). The project was a collaboration between the IT Division and the Finance Department as “owners of the data.” A couple of days of training was all that was required to get up and running.
“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,” Terry indicated.

Final Thoughts & Benefits

“I can’t say enough about the support for Purge-it! – it absolutely exceeded our expectations. The product itself performed flawlessly and our users have rapidly accepted it in large part due to its seamless integration with JD Edwards; accessing archived data is so easy for them,” stated Terry MacLaren.

“We would recommend Purge-it! to other JD Edwards users looking for a simple, sophisticated and investment friendly solution to their data file purge and archive needs.”

Challenges
Get ‘ahead of the curve’ with cleaning up the JD Edwards data
Stop possible performance issues and backup challenges before they occurred
Do so with a powerful, yet simple and integrated solution

Why Purge-it!?
Specifically designed for JD Edwards
Investment friendly
Easy access to archived data for users
Proof and final modes, reversal ability
Simplicity
Audit files and transactions
Stellar support

Key Benefits
Initial data clean up and simple on going archiving
Discovery of otherwise unknown data quality issues
Improved performance of backups and batch process jobs
Increased business user satisfaction

The District of Saanich

Purging – A Project Whose Time Had Come

The Alternatives & the Selection

Quick Implementation, Stellar Support & Ongoing Purging

Final Thoughts & Benefits

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