Tektronix to Resolve Problem of 'Data Cholesterol' in ERP Systems with OuterBay Archiver.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001

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OuterBay Technologies, a supplier of performance-resolution software that maximizes the performance, reliability and round-the-clock availability of mission-critical packaged and e-business applications, today announced that its data archiving solution, the OuterBay Archiver, has been selected to resolve the problem of "data cholesterol" in Tektronix's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software system. Tektronix (NYSE: TEK) is the leading provider of a broad range of application-specific test, measurement, and monitoring solutions.

Like many companies that have launched ERP systems in the last three years, Tektronix has seen dramatic growth in the number of records in their Oracle Applications financial services database. Tektronix's system administrators foresaw a time when they would no longer be able to manage their IT infrastructure with optimal performance. To ensure that "data cholesterol" was not going to impede user access to critical data or become a barrier to the implementation of key future IT initiatives, Tektronix sought the OuterBay Archiver for its ability to enhance their data management capabilities.

The OuterBay Archiver is the first software product designed to alleviate the problem of data build-up in packaged and e-business applications. "The same way that cholesterol builds up over time in the human circulatory system and impairs its ability to function, data builds up over time in Oracle Applications and slows down the system," said Richard Butterfield, COO of OuterBay. "You can simply remove less timely data from the database to a data warehouse, but that severely limits access to that information. Ideally you should be able to transfer the data to an archive that is accessible from your standard application forms and reports, and the OuterBay Archiver makes that possible." Oracle Applications offers a purge function, but not an online archive feature. OuterBay Archiver utilizes Oracle Applications purge functions to intelligently deposit older data into an archive database that Tektronix users can access via the same interface they use to access the production database. OuterBay Archiver enables Tektronix to reduce hardware upgrade costs, finish batch jobs on time and reduce backup and copy time that could tie up network traffic.

"If we were to create a custom financial data warehouse, or purchase a data warehouse solution with prewritten summary views, then we'd have to use extracting tools to get the data. Our users would have to learn how to use it, and we would have to provide additional resources to support it," said Callie Gates, Information Services manager at Tektronix. "That's costly and extremely inefficient - - particularly since no one wants to create a new process for handling five-year old data. For the cost of hiring an in-house, custom solution-building team for eight months, we can have OuterBay Archiver up and running. OuterBay Archiver put us light-years ahead of where we would have been if we had tried to custom-develop a solution."

About OuterBay Technologies

OuterBay Technologies is a supplier of performance resolution software that allows customers to improve access to their mission-critical packaged and e-business applications. OuterBay is the creator of OuterBay Archiver, an online archive solution that provides users with immediate access to all data, new and old, through the same application interface. OuterBay Archiver leverages Oracle Applications' purge functions to intelligently deposit purged data into a single archive database, thereby reducing infrastructure complexity and improving system performance. OuterBay Technologies is based in San Jose, California. For more information view the company's Web site at http://www.outerbay.com.

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