RightOrder Debuts QueryEdge Aimed at Improving Performance and Scalability of Business-Critical Applications by 10-50x; RightOrder's QueryEdge Software Solution Increases Business Productivity and IT Efficiency.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- RightOrder, Inc., a premier provider of infrastructure software that improves the performance, scalability and flexibility of business-critical applications by orders of magnitude, today announced that it is delivering its QueryEdge software solution to organizations across North America. Based on its patented Index Fabric Technology, RightOrder's QueryEdge enables Global 5000 organizations to increase the performance of business intelligence, data warehouse and other query-intensive and reporting applications by 10-50x.

In a related announcement today, RightOrder also revealed details about the company's formation (RightOrder Launched to Deliver Products that Address Performance, Scalability and Flexibility of Business-Critical Applications).

Richard Winter, Founder and Chairman of Winter Corp., an expert resource on database scalability believes that, "QueryEdge employs advanced database indexing technology, with techniques we have not seen in other data warehouse products. For a class of complex Oracle queries, particularly those with selective join predicates, QueryEdge users can expect to realize dramatically reduced response times, even with large data volumes. QueryEdge achieves its impact in part by eliminating many table joins, which are among the most time consuming and resource intensive operations in the large scale data warehouse."

As Levy Cohen CEO and Founder of RightOrder explained, "Information is a significant competitive differentiator and huge investments are being made to maximize that asset. Today, however, users are frequently prevented from accessing certain data and running some queries, all because the underlying technology has reached its limits. With QueryEdge, long-running queries and complex, resource-intensive reports and queries can run in a fraction of the time normally required. This enables more users and more complex applications because of the reduced computing resources required to support them."

William McKnight, President of McKnight Associates, Inc., a professional services consulting firm specializing in data warehouse and customer relationship management projects commented, "It is no longer acceptable for database professionals to throw countless dollars and effort into that bit bucket of 'tuning,' for which there never seems to be any meaningful results other than keeping performance status quo as the data grows and the DBMS engines fail to meet their specifications. Given the current alternatives available to performance-tune database management systems, including expensive hardware alternatives and labor-only options, an investment in RightOrder's indexing approach would seem to yield the biggest return in query performance and, by virtue of its non-intrusive implementation, is an option worth adding to any environment."

About QueryEdge

Although there are a variety of techniques for improving database performance, none attack performance at the root of the database the way QueryEdge does. Tuning, caching, aggregation, specialized databases, or just throwing more hardware at performance are Band-Aids trying to fix symptoms, rather than root causes. Only QueryEdge addresses core database performance thereby providing fundamentally faster solutions.

QueryEdge is based on RightOrder's unique Index Fabric Technology. Developed since 2000, the technology enables cross table indexes which eliminate the need to perform expensive run-time joins. QueryEdge optimizes the interaction between databases and applications. When applicable, it transparently suggests faster access paths to the data through RightOrder's unique indexes. Because this reduces disk I/O by as much as 90% or more, fewer disk I/Os are required and memory operations are reduced, allowing QueryEdge to deliver faster query results -- often up to 10 times or more. The patented index technology and architecture enables significantly faster query results for both routine and ad hoc queries.

QueryEdge is currently deployed as an Oracle Data Cartridge. QueryEdge supports Oracle 8i (8.1.7 and higher), 9i and 10g. QueryEdge is priced as an enterprise software license starting at $110,000.

Target Markets and Applications

The market for performance management software, including related hardware, tools and services is estimated to be between $2 and 3 billion in 2005. If related data management sectors, such as data warehouses RDBMs, and analytic tools, are included, the market is projected to be as large as $12-15 billion this year.

QueryEdge provides breakthrough performance solutions for data and query-intensive applications such as Business Intelligence, Data Warehouses, Enterprise Reporting, OLAP, and other business-critical applications. By accelerating performance 10-50x, QueryEdge can be used to greatly enhance the value of existing applications and increase user satisfaction as well as business productivity.

Financial Services, Banking -- With QueryEdge, nightly time-consuming batch reconciliation processes can be significantly reduced, often ensuring Federal compliance mandates and deadlines are met.

Telecommunications -- Queries on large data warehouses and OLAP cubes are reduced from hours to minutes, more tactical (drill-down) analysis is possible and additional users can easily be added without expensive hardware upgrades.

Retail -- Bottlenecks in tactical decision support systems are relieved; performance is dramatically improved, resulting in better analysis and more timely decisions.

Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals -- Queries on large population samples for clinical trials and healthcare analysis can be significantly accelerated to speed decision-making, reduce costs and increase end-user satisfaction.

Market Background

QueryEdge addresses some of the major problems faced by IT organizations today. With data volumes doubling every year, I/O becoming the major performance bottleneck and more users seeking increasingly granular data, many IT organizations are under siege to provide better service. At the same time, these IT groups are limited in their headcount and budget growth, which further increases the 'business-IT' gap. By using breakthrough indexing technology to attack these problems, QueryEdge solves two problems at once. It accelerates query performance and application response times by orders of magnitude and simultaneously reduces CPU utilization by up to 90%. This allows IT organizations to provide higher levels of service to their users, while at the same time freeing up valuable hardware and system resources, which further leverages existing investments and reduces IT costs. For additional information on QueryEdge's underlying technology, see the QueryEdge Acceleration Whitepaper at www.rightorder.com

About RightOrder

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, RightOrder develops and markets infrastructure software that improves the performance, scalability and flexibility of business critical applications. RightOrder's flagship product, QueryEdge, leverages the company's unique, patented Index Fabric Engine technology to increase business productivity for large enterprises by improving, by orders of magnitude, the performance of query-intensive applications. Completely transparent, QueryEdge is seamlessly installed on existing systems and requires no architectural changes. It accelerates the performance of the most resource-consuming queries in BI, Data Warehouses, Enterprise Reporting, OLAP and other query-intensive, business-critical applications by reducing requirements for disk I/O, CPU time, and memory. For additional information, visit www.rightorder.com.

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