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Safety Net

Safety Net is a supplemental, technical offering designed to reduce your business exposure, charged on a pay-as-you-use basis, and is an alternate source of Personic-related expertise.

 

Why?

Your primary business asset is your data and continued access to it. Any number of things can damage this asset. The measures that people put in place to address this threat of damage are often insufficient and regularly untested. You need something to fill the gaps.

 


What Is It?

EZaccess and Workflow database maintenance
Data conversion and data exposure
Backup Verification
Charged by the hour; pay for what you use

 
What Is It Not?
A replacement for Xperius application support
Code customization
Anything that requires access to Xperius source
An expensive annual contract
 

Our Offerings

 

Data Conversion

We transform external data to fit into your Personic database, or extract data from your Personic database to fit into another database. If you're moving to a new Human Capital solution, you'll need a data conversion at some point. We have Personic expertise and can work with third parties, or on our own.

 

We establish an assured process for the transition so your downtime is minimized.

 

We're partnering with leading solution vendors to bring you a total solution.

 

Read more about our conversion services here.

 

 

Data Exposure

You have an "open" database which is only exposed by one application; the one from Personic. We add views onto the database so you have choice.

 

If Personic's application were to go away, how would you look at your data? We provide access through Excel, Access or any other tool that can speak to an Oracle database. We automate periodic dumps to new files, or provide a live view onto your database with tools you know how to use.

 

We can even configure a web portal for you.

 

 

Database Maintenance

As your database is used and grows, it needs ongoing maintenance. We perform a periodic analysis to see what needs to change. We monitor elements such as tablespaces, indexes and tables for sizing and configuration issues.

 

Don't wait until you have a problem; maintain it now.

 

Because of the way Workflow and EZaccess were written no integrity constraints were built into the database, so it is important to perform a periodic data integrity check. We do this for you and work through through the steps necessary to clean it up.

 

Backup Verification

A backup isn't a backup until you've checked to see that it can be restored and used. Most people do backups and assume the rest. It's critical to do test restores.

 

We manage periodic restores for you, so you can rest assured that a fatal crash will not put your business out of action.

 

We also offer a dedicated copy of your data to offsite, online storage. This encrypted copy operation and encrypted storage solution assures you that a restore will be immediately available. No delay for tape loading and winding.

 



So we need to ask...
Is your data of any value without your Personic Application?
What would you do if Xperius went out of business?
What would happen if your Oracle database ran out of space and you started to get weird error messages?
What do you do when you want a custom report from your database?
How quickly could you restore your data from backup media?
If you looked on your most recent backup tape, would it have old data on it or recent data?

Why don't you use Outsource Advice to fill in some of your security gaps?
...Call us.



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