Applimation Expands Enterprise Data Management Support for Mainframe Clients

Applimation Informia Archive Includes DB2® z/OS® Enhancements

CHICAGO—August 12, 2008—Applimation, Inc., the leading independent provider of enterprise data management solutions for Oracle®, SAP®, PeopleSoft®, Siebel® and custom applications, announced today that it has expanded Applimation Informia™ Archive to include additional support for mainframe clients. The expanded Applimation Informia suite supports DB2/LUW, DB2 z/OS, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase. With Applimation Informia Archive, all archiving, regardless of application or database, is done with a single, unified technical architecture for efficient and cost-effective data storage and retrieval, legal and regulatory compliance and legacy application retirement.

With archived database information projected to exceed more than 30,000 petabytes between 2007 and 2012, according to ESG Research, organizations need to manage massive amounts of data or face mounting costs and compliance liability. Applimation Informia Archive provides flexible functionality to quickly reduce the overall size of production databases to improve operational efficiency at a lower cost. 

Key enhancements of Applimation Informia Archive for DB2 include:

• Data growth analyzer to examine data distribution and growth patterns
• Archive and purge inactive or historical data automatically to database or flat file format
• No proprietary files needed
• Access archived data through the standard enterprise application user interface
• Accommodate custom and third party data
• The ability to restore archived data at any time
• Continuous seamless application access to archived data
• E-Discovery search of offline archived or retired data

"Applimation has upgraded the Informia suite in order to extend our innovative data management support to the growing mainframe client base," said Bob Markese, CEO for Applimation. "Integration of mainframe data sources with the application platform is becoming more important to enterprises in proactively managing their databases. Applimation provides state-of-the-art functionality to quickly reduce the size of production databases for optimal application performance and lower total cost of ownership.”

About Applimation

Applimation is the leading independent provider of enterprise data management solutions for Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and custom applications. By providing a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to achieve their Information Lifecycle Management objectives, Applimation’s Informia Suite drives cost-effective management of both production and non-production databases.  With solutions for data archiving, data provisioning, data security, application retirement and divestitures, Applimation has helped businesses improve operational efficiency while meeting compliance requirements and reducing the cost and risk of application data management.

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Applimation has offices and affiliates serving North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.applimation.com.