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Western Gas Solves Data Growth Issues With ARCHIVEjinni

Sunnyvale, Feb 2004 – Western Gas Resources, Inc. (WGR) was using Oracle Application R11.0.3 and planning an upgrade to the Release 11i. Many of the transaction tables had millions of records, a large percentage of which was inactive considering that WGR had been actively using the system since October 1993. This severely impacted the application performance. In addition, due to the foreseen increase in data volume of over 40% with Oracle R11i, WGR realized that they would be required to significantly upsize their infrastructure. While the infrastructure upgrades provided an opportunity to re-evaluate the platform, the decision to cross migrate from HP/UX to Linux only added to the associated complexities of the upgrade.

The Solution – ARCHIVEjinni™

WGR needed a solution that would be able to archive data associated with their Oracle eBusiness Suite applications. WGR chose Solix ARCHIVEjinni after a rigorous selection process that evaluated on the basis of features, functionality, support capabilities, vendor’s responsiveness and the highest ROI.

The capabilities of ARCHIVEjinni™ assured WGR of a viable solution that addresses the challenges the company faced. ARCHIVEjinni also ensured simultaneous access to both production and archived data without having to log out from the application. From a Sarbanes-Oxley perspective too, the solution made sure that all the detail of historical transaction was available.

ARCHIVEjinni™ is an enterprise data management solution that enables customers to manage their entire data lifecycle by automating the Archive and Purge process. ARCHIVEjinni is built on the Oracle eBusiness Suite technology stack and is fully integrated into the Oracle eBusiness Suite.

“Unmanaged data growth is the most dominant factor impacting the application performance and application responsiveness directly impacts the user productivity……. ARCHIVEjinni™ has the capability to isolate the user frustrations associated with deteriorating application performance. It is a program that delivers returns starting day 1 and lasts a lifetime” says Ajay Jotwani, Director, Enterprise Application Solutions.

ARCHIVEjinni™ is a smart automated management of entire data life cycle and brings substantial benefits to enterprises.

  • Improvement in application performance
  • Tangible cost savings compared to standard storage architectures
  • Reduce upgrade/maintenance downtime
  • Freed Resources of network capacity, server processing bandwidth and IT time
  • Data management for statutory compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
  • Effective solution for disaster recover

“By archiving the historical data, ARCHIVEjinni gave us 3 tangible benefits; significantly improved application responsiveness and reduced the application administration costs”, says Rick Brough, Manager, Database Administration, “We successfully upgraded to Release 11i.9 and migrated to Linux platform without severely impacting the business”.

WGR used the ARCHIVEjinni™ analytics to audit its instance and define the archiving strategy. The implementation of this low-cost solution improved the overall application performance by over 50%. ARCHIVEjinni™ passed the litmus test when some of the standard month end reports that took more than a day to run now runs in less than an hour.

About Western Gas Resources, Inc.

Western Gas Resources, Inc. (WGR) is a Denver based natural gas producer providing a broad range of services to its customers from the wellhead to the sales delivery point. With annual revenues exceeding $2.87 Billion in 2003, WGR is one of the fastest growing energy companies. WGR’s gas gathering network includes 10,300 miles of pipeline and its gathering, processing and treating facilities are located in major gas-producing basins in the Rocky Mountain, Mid-Continent and West Texas regions of the United States.