Information Lifecycle Management
for Databases and Custom Applications

To support your organization's unique business processes, chances are your enterprise application environment includes packaged applications that have been customized with proprietary functionality, as well as custom applications developed in-house to address special requirements. In fact, most enterprise application projects require some degree of customization to meet industry-specific or company-specific needs.

As you know, enterprise applications generate huge volumes of data, and the impact of maintaining such data over time, for compliance or reporting purposes, can be significant. As multiple copies of production databases proliferate, system performance bogs down, while IT infrastructure costs spiral out of control.

Cost Effective Storage Solution for Different Classes of Enterprise Data

Application Data Management (ADM) is an approach to managing application data based on its value to the organization. The strategic imperative of ADM is to dedicate highend resources to high-value, production data while assigning more cost-effective solutions for aged data. Unlike traditional data management and storage solutions, ADM software is built from the ground up to be "application aware," with data stored as complete business transactions.

OuterBay ADM is the only solution on the market today that offers cradle-to-grave application data management, including both live database archiving and permanent, application-independent, XML-based archiving. In addition, only OuterBay ADM supports customizations of multiple application platforms, including Oracle, PeopleSoft, as well as custom applications, with monitoring, archiving and subsetting capabilities built on a single, integrated, enterprise architecture.

High Performance Data Growth Management for Databases and Custom Applications

In today's heterogeneous enterprise application environments, data spans a wide range of enterprise and custom applications. To effectively manage the information lifecycle, you must be able to archive or subset data from packaged application customizations as well as custom applications on numerous platforms, operating systems, and databases to maximize Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix and SQL Server performance.

OuterBay Developer Edition delivers a proven developer's environment to support your custom or customized applications and databases. In fact, it's the very same tool OuterBay uses to develop our database archiving solutions. With OuterBay Developer Edition, you can:

• Discover application objects, schemas, and relationships
• Validate data relationships and quality in test mode before moving data to production
• Generate archive or subset modules.

This graphical environment supports all OuterBay Application Data Management components - Application Resource Monitor, LiveArchive, Encapsulated Archive, and Instance Generator - so you can leverage the full capabilities of every solution, regardless of the applications or databases within your enterprise application development environment.

To support the heterogeneous application environment, OuterBay Developer Edition includes the following features:

• Support for Custom Applications and Databases: Archive and subset custom applications and customized packaged applications to maximize Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix and SQL Server performance.
• Schema Discovery: Graphically discovers application schemas for reverse engineering.
• Constraint Definition: Uses policies and constraints to determine eligible transactions and define data retention policies.
• Retention Policy Definition: Defines criteria for determining data retention.
• Real-time Data Validation: Validates data in real-time, test mode without impacting production system.
• Change/Impact Analysis: Forecasts the impact of changes by comparing snapshots of application schema.
• Application Data Management Integration: Supports OuterBay Application Resource Monitor, LiveArchive, Encapsulated Archive, and Instance Generator.
• Cross-Platform Support: Supports customizations of Oracle 10.7, 11, and 11i, and PeopleSoft 7.5, 8.1, and 8.8, as well as custom applications across the enterprise; Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and Sybase databases; multiple storage media classes including EMC Centera, ATA, CAS, WORM, and tape; and multiple operating systems including Linux, UNIX, Windows NT, Solaris, and AIX.