Case Study: Fortune 500 Financial Services Organization achieves over 50% database reduction and halved maintenance time with OpenText PPM Purge Tool

Micro Focus PPM debuts its Purge Tool successfully with over 50% data reduction resulting in accelerated performance and reduced maintenance time.

A Fortune 500 financial services organization using Micro Focus PPM for project, resource and time management faced growing performance and compliance problems: more than a decade of legacy data (thousands of projects, requests, reports and timesheets) caused slow nightly ETL runs, long maintenance windows (8–10 hours) and a need to delete 11+ years of data to meet data-privacy retention rules for its 3,500+ users.

Working with Micro Focus Advanced Consultancy Services and a SaaS Technical Solutions Consultant, the team deployed and validated the PPM Purge Tool across staging and production, permanently removing out-of-scope historical records. The purge cut production and reporting schema sizes by over 50%, halved maintenance and backup times, brought the environment into regulatory compliance, and restored confidence in PPM as a reliable solution.