What's in an engagement

From "retire this" to "data is AI-activated."

A typical Application Retirement engagement spans six phases. Solix Services brings the methodology, the deep application expertise, and the deliverables that get the customer's procurement, finance, and audit teams comfortable enough to sign off.

1

Discovery & Business Case

Inventory the application. TCO baseline. Business case for retirement. Stakeholder alignment with finance, application owner, audit.

2

Data Inventory & Scope

What data, what retention, what legal hold, what business use cases must survive. Defensible scope locked.

3

Extraction & Validation

Solix Connect to the source application. Migration to the Preservation Zone. Quality checks, lineage, audit trail.

4

Application Knowledge Graph (AKG) Construction

Pre-built AKG if available. Data Sense Builder + Services for custom or modified applications. Tested on real user questions.

5

User Acceptance

Business users validate that their questions get answered correctly through Data Ask. Decommission readiness signed off by data owners.

6

Decommission & Cutover

Original application shut down on schedule. Solix-hosted preserved data is the system of record going forward. Cost savings begin.

What you get

Six deliverables from every engagement.

  • TCO baseline + business case. Quantified savings for finance and procurement sign-off.
  • Data inventory + scope document. Defensible record of what was preserved and why. Audit and legal-hold ready.
  • Production-grade AKG. Tested on real user questions, validated by business users.
  • Deployed Preservation Zone. Multi-tenant, single-tenant, on-premises, or hybrid per customer choice.
  • Trained business users. Sara, Ted, the accounting supervisor — all comfortable using Data Ask in production.
  • Decommission runbook. The plan, the signoffs, the rollback contingencies that let the customer pull the plug with confidence.
Typical timeline

From kickoff to cutover.

Timelines vary by application complexity, data volume, customization, and customer team availability. Most engagements compress under fixed-fee terms.

  • 10-14

    Weeks · Standard ERP

  • 16-24

    Weeks · Customized / Mainframe

  • 24-36

    Weeks · M&A Multi-system

Specialized application expertise

Hundreds of engagements. Across every major application.

CDP is the data management foundation of Enterprise Edition. Every capability is deployable today.

1

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle Validated Integration. Pre-built AKG. Custom extension expertise.

2

SAP ECC / S/4HANA

Productized SAP AKG. Z-table customization. RICEF-aware extraction.

3

PeopleSoft

HCM, Financials, CRM. Set ID and effective-dated logic preserved.

4

JD Edwards

EnterpriseOne and World. Tier-1 AKG. UDC tables handled.

5

Mainframe (z/OS)

VSAM, IMS, DB2 z/OS, custom COBOL applications.

6

Custom applications

Data Sense Builder + Services for non-standard schemas.

7

M&A integration

Acquired company data ingestion, classification, governed integration.

8

Industry-specific

Banking core systems, healthcare claims, pharma research databases.

Customer outcomes

What our customers say.

  • "Achieving Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite expertise gives our customers the confidence that the integration of Solix Common Data Platform is functionally sound and performs as tested."

    David Hicks
    VP, Worldwide ISV Cloud Business Development, Oracle

  • "Solix CDP offers end-to-end functionality for data governance and beyond, with particular emphasis placed on big data as well as regulatory compliance in general and data retention in specific."

    Daniel Howard
    Analyst, Bloor Research

Contact Us

Schedule a working session.

A two-hour conversation with a Solix Services Architect on your specific applications, your timeline, your business case. Outcome: an indicative TCO and a recommended engagement plan.

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