Released on: November 7, 2007, 3:25 am

Press Release Author: Tim Hughan

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Forbes Marshall increases application performance and
improves DBA productivity with Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite

Press Release Body: Hyderabad,Sunnyvale, CA, November 07 2007--Solix Technologies, a
leading global provider of enterprise data management solutions that helps companies
meet compliance requirements and achieve Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
goals today announced that Forbes Marshall has successfully utilized Solix
Enterprise Data Management Suite Solix (EDMS) to reduce the size of the database and
increase the performance of Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Production instance and
speed up the process of creating a small-sized Test and Development instance.

Forbes Marshall, a provider of solutions in Energy, Efficiency and process
automation has implemented nineteen Oracle 11i modules. The Inventory and CRM
modules in particular were adding large amounts transactions data. An additional
concern was the IT burden in creating the copies needed for Test and Development.

With very high dependence of ERPs for running their business operations, enterprises
need to maintain the best performance of their mission critical applications while
facing the inevitable explosive growth of their transaction data; and at the same
time they need to ensure that their data is equally secure in their production
database and the multiple non-production copies for test and development
environments. Shekhar Dasgupta, President and COO of Solix Technologies, said,
“Solix EDMS Database Archiving provides companies the means to optimize
application performance while retaining historical data for long term retention
needs. Solix EDMS Secure Test & Development helps DBAs to create rapid database
subsets for test and development while secure sensitive data in these non-production
copies”.

Using Solix EDMS, Forbes Marshall automated the process for archiving and purging of
historical data from sixteen modules of Oracle E-Business Suite, and creates rapid
and secure subsets. With implementation of Solix EDMS, Forbes Marshall benefitted
from significant improvements in application performance, significant gains in DBA
productivity, and faster backup and recovery.


Vijay Kumar, CIO Forbes Marshall said, “The rapid growth of our business over
the last few years required us to look for solutions for our ERP environment that
would help towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers
and storage. We selected Solix because of its architectural elegance, simplicity and
its track record in customer responsiveness.”
Solix solutions enable compliance and is a foundation for E-Discovery through long
term data retention, data masking, database audit and enterprise search; improves
application performance and business agility through active archiving of enterprise
data; improves DBA productivity, reduces storage and secures sensitive data; and
help data migration for application sunsetting and upgrades.
About Solix Technologies
Solix Technologies, Inc. is a recognized global provider of enterprise data
management solutions for information lifecycle management and compliance. The Solix
Enterprise Data Management Suite of software enables organizations to discover,
classify, and manage structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, and easily
implement tiered storage strategies while securing, archiving, managing, and
auditing confidential data for compliance and information governance. Solix
partners with the leading application and storage providers to provide integrated
solutions for today’s heterogeneous environments. With an extensive global
client base, including many Fortune 500 companies, Solix is considered a pioneer in
providing a complete infrastructure platform to manage data across all segments
(application, e-mail, and documents) in an enterprise. For more information please
visit http://www.solix.com or call 888-GO-SOLIX.

Contact:
Tim Hughan
Solix Technologies, Inc.
tim.hughan@solix.com
408.328.6444
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Web Site: http://www.solix.com

Contact Details: Solix Technologies
685 West Maude Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Tel: 888.867.6549
Fax: 408.737.1607
tim.hughan@solix.com
DD: 408.328.6444