PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS RESOLVED WITH OUTERBAY SOFTWARE.

OuterBay Technologies, the emerging supplier of performance resolution software has announced the beta of its first software product, the OuterBay Archiver for Oracle Applications. This powerful product acts as a natural extension to Oracle Applications, ensuring peak performance by moving less timely data to a single archive database, while keeping information available to all users at all times. As with all OuterBay products and services, the Outerbay Archiver delivers the resolution, control and simplicity that companies need to keep growing fast and profitable.

"OuterBay products and services provide solutions to modern businesses that rely on mission-critical packaged business applications to support their fast changing business environment. Like insuring a new car, every e-Business customer should consider the OuterBay Archiver product to gain optimal performance, availability and reliability during the application lifecycle," said Richard Butterfield, acting COO, OuterBay Technologies.

OuterBay technology has had an enormous impact on the worldwide implementations of Oracle Applications at Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Silicon Graphics, and many others. The beta of the OuterBay Archiver is intended to round out application performance management needs and offer wider distribution of the product.

"With the OuterBay Archiver we delivered swift resolution to resource consumption problems impacting performance on our mission critical ERP implementation of Oracle Applications. OuterBay's products and methodology reduced our CPU peak load from 90 percent to a stable 20 percent. This gave us the control and predictable performance we needed to handle the explosive business growth at Sun," said Tom Wasilczyk, IT Director, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Resolution, Control, and Simplicity

OuterBay products are unique in that they are not merely measurement products. Instead, they focus on resolving performance problems. While the product comes with embedded monitoring tools, the ability to take action is the strongest asset of the OuterBay Archiver.

-- Resolution: The OuterBay Archiver measures and resolves performance problems by moving data from the production to a single archive database, leaving sufficient room for business expansion.

-- Control: Users maintain control of all of their data, as archiving has no negative impact on data availability. Application managers can now control their infrastructure budgets more accurately as less redundancy of data reduces the need for complex infrastructure requirements.

-- Simplicity: Users retraining is not needed. They simply switch their application from production to archive to obtain instantaneous access to archived data. Application managers maintain a simple infrastructure comprised of one database instance.

Optimal Performance and Simplicity Features

The OuterBay Archiver understands the intricacies of the Oracle Applications environment, including its customizations, to help businesses make smart decisions that optimize performance and return control and simplicity to their application managers and users. This knowledge is embedded in the product's features: full compliance with Oracle Applications, completely automated archive solution, comprehensive built in audit and reconciliation, and customization capability.

Additional manager and user benefits are available through the OuterBay Archiver workbench features. The Performance Impact Analysis Workbench (web-based) allows managers to precisely target the applications that are most important to control and identify programs that are most affected by data growth. The Data Growth Analysis Workbench (web-based) allows managers to develop an archive strategy based on the use and growth of tables and related indexes in the production environment. With the Disk Space Workbench, the OuterBay Archiver makes it possible for system managers to deliver predictive infrastructure cost scenarios to their management.

To further safeguard the Oracle Applications environment, the OuterBay Archiver includes an intelligent conflict detection feature. This feature immediately detects important discrepancies during archiving, allowing managers to take appropriate action.

About OuterBay Technologies

OuterBay Technologies is the emerging supplier of computer software products that maximize the performance, reliability and round-the-clock availability of mission-critical e-Business applications. OuterBay products and services are sold to support e-Business applications at enterprises and .com startups. OuterBay is an Oracle Alliance Partner and maintains its headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

For more information, visit www.outerbay.com or call 650/813-1552.