Released on: May 29, 2008, 3:59 am

Press Release Author: Tim Hughan

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Enterprise Data Archiving and Secure Test Data Management
Solutions Now Available for Baan ERP applications


Press Release Body: Sunnyvale, CA May 29, 2008--Solix Technologies, a leading global
provider of database archiving and enterprise data management solutions that helps
companies meet compliance requirements and achieve Information Lifecycle Management
(ILM) goals today announced Solix EDMS for Baan Archiving. This solution will bring
enterprise data archiving, data masking and secure cloning to the Baan environment,
increasing application performance, security and manageability while reducing
storage costs.

As one of the original ERP applications, Baan has thousands of customers running
modules for manufacturing, financial, project estimating and management and
distribution. Due to its long history in the market and difficulty in migrating ERP
applications, many organizations have remained on Baan and have very large
databases, possibly even getting close to the table limit for their underlying
database. Large databases are often difficult to manage and maintain from
production to test and development with system and reporting performance negatively
affected by the database size.

According to Gartner Research Director, Christian Hestermann "Gartner sees
user-centric ERP to be the next step in the future development of business
applications. To achieve this user-centricity, a tight integration between business
processes and good data management practices, including data archiving, document and
knowledge management and embedded analytics, is critical.\"

Solix Enterprise Data Archiving for Baan can extend the life of Baan applications by
archiving legacy or underutilized data and reducing the overall size of the
database. Enterprise archiving is a proven strategy for managing large application
databases to improve application performance and increase manageability of the
database. For organizations looking to do a planned migration of Baan to the Infor
platform or to other ERP platforms, Solix's metadata manager acts as a project
accelerator for managing data migrations.

Solix Enterprise Data Archiving for Baan:
. Archives any version of the Baan application
. Creates the archive without having to create a separate company
. Maintains metadata in Solix Metadata repository, eliminating metadata
discrepancies between archive and production
. Allows business rules to dictate archiving logic-archive by your business process,
rather than change your process to fit the archive rules
. Archives at the database level for rapid archiving of data while maintaining
referential integrity
. Maintains access to archive and production data through native application layer

Solix Enterprise Data Archiving for Baan has been implemented at a US Based global
provider of integrated self-service delivery and security systems and services. By
utilizing Solix EDMS for Baan Archiving to archive historical data at the database
level and relocate closed transactions to separate databases and reduce the overall
size of the database, they were able to stabilize their Baan environment and extend
the life of the application.

At the core of Solix Enterprise Data Manager (Solix EDMS) is the Solix Enterprise
Metadata Manager, which manages multiple application and data types across all
hardware platforms that enable centralized management of data security policies
whether the data resides in the production instance or in test and development
copies. Solix EDMS modules that will be available for Baan applications include:

Solix Enterprise Data Archiving - archives all data (application, email, documents
and other files) to a secure, controlled, and searchable archive, improving
application performance and reducing storage costs.

Solix Secure Test and Development - allows organizations to automatically create
database copies while masking sensitive data in non-production environments for
improved security, faster test and development cycles, and reduced storage costs.

Solix Application Sunsetting and Migration leverages the Solix Enterprise Metadata
Manager and allows database administrators to map metadata between legacy and
current applications and create conversion rules to ensure seamless data migration.

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.

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Web Site: http://www.solix.com/

Contact Details: Solix Technologies, Inc.
685 West Maude Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Tel : +1.888.GO.SOLIX
(1.888.867.6549)
Fax: +1.408.737.1607
Email : Tim.Hughan@solix.com