Get Faster Return on IT Projects with Streamlined Application Databases

If you're like most large IT organizations, over time your enterprise application data has reached epic proportions, and in consequence you face poor system performance and rising infrastructure costs. Application development itself is a major contributor to uncontrolled data growth, as multiple copies of production data are created for test and development environments.

Every time you roll out a new software project, the problem only gets bigger. Application deployments, customizations, upgrades and enhancements all require copies of application data for testing, development, QA, staging and training. When you create multiple copies of your entire production database, the toll on your IT infrastructure and time-to-delivery can be significant. Yet application managers need true relational data to effectively develop and test the new functionality required to meet new business challenges.

Faster, More Cost-Effective Development Efforts with Existing IT Resources

The solution is to identify subset data for use in application development, then remove the bulk of production data to minimize the load on testing and staging servers. With more manageable databases, you can complete more projects and deliver a faster return on critical business initiatives.

By replacing full-size production database copies with relationally intact, policy-based subsets comprising only the data you need, Instance Generator allows you to accelerate new initiatives, cut infrastructure costs and complete mission-critical projects on time and under budget. You define the general policies and specific rules that govern the data used in each instance. OuterBay Instance Generator automatically creates a subset with your selected data and all the original data relationships. You can even save and reuse the definitions and creation logic, so it's faster and easier to reproduce or modify any given instance.

Instance Generator helps accelerate projects with instances tailored to your specific project needs. For example, you can bring an enterprise application online at a new regional facility faster with instances populated exclusively with data from that region. This focused approach reduces the size of the instance and ensures that each subset contains only the data most critical to the test, development, staging or training phases of the project.

A New Approach: Management of Test and Development

OuterBay Instance Generator automatically generates database subsets to give you complete control of the size and composition of your development instances. With OuterBay Instance Generator, you can:

 By replacing full-size production database copies with relationally intact, policy-based subsets comprising only the data you need, Instance Generator allows you to accelerate new initiatives, cut infrastructure costs and complete mission-critical projects on time and under budget.

To help curb application data growth while expediting application software projects, OuterBay Instance Generator offers a broad array of subsetting features:

• Relationally Intact Subsets: Generates subsets that retain data integrity and relationships for consistent business processes.
• Automated Definition: Automated instance definition and generation to speed IT development efforts.
• Re-use: Supports re-use of stored definitions, polices, and rules.
• Storage Savings: Reorganizes test and development databases and reclaims storage space for more effective use of development resources.
• Enterprise Application Support: Supports Oracle 10.7, 11, and 11i; PeopleSoft 7.5, 8.1, and 8.8; custom applications, databases; and operating systems such as Linux.