Case Study: Clopay Corporation achieves 50% database size reduction and 30% application performance improvement with Informatica Data Archive

Maintained data integrity and data access after the data was archived

Clopay Corporation, a Griffon Company, is a global leader in specialty plastic film manufacturing and the nation’s largest maker of residential garage doors. Facing recession-driven pressure to cut costs and improve efficiency, Clopay needed to manage rapid data growth from an expanding Oracle E-Business Suite, reduce database management, software and hardware expenses, and optimize application infrastructure to boost agility across sales, marketing and service.

Clopay implemented Informatica Data Archive to safely archive application data while keeping it accessible from existing interfaces. The solution delivered payback in under 1.5 years, cut production database size by 50% in three years, improved application performance by 30%, ensured backups completed within the window with fewer tape and more disk backups, preserved data integrity and access, and added flexible search and reporting—strengthening competitiveness and profitability.

Clopay Corporation

A. Vinod

Vice President of Information Technology