Crossroads 2002 A-List Award Winners

Striva Corporation
San Jose, CA

DETAIL
> Legacy Data Access

CUSTOMERS AT WORK

Corporations have production data spread across heterogeneous hardware, databases, and operating systems. While much of this data is stored in UNIX and PC databases, mainframe databases remain important workhorses in large enterprises, managing well over half of all business-critical data. Integrating data between disparate systems accounts for roughly a third of all programming and maintenance efforts within large corporations. Two Fortune 1000 corporations and an ISV that embeds Striva were among the reference customers. Strategic objectives include:

§ Increasing productivity and ease to access and integrate legacy data

§ Improving the flexibility of investments in legacy systems

WHY STRIVA?

Accessing non-relational data generally requires several person-weeks of custom coding by an experience developer. Striva DETAIL allows an organization to access all of its data-relational and non-relations-without the need for programming. With DETAIL, all data looks relational. DETAIL combines very-high-performance native DBMS access with an intuitive, easily deployed agent technology. It routinely reduced integration projects from months and weeks to days or even minutes. DETAIL is available from Striva and its OEMs including among others: Informatica, Hummingbird, Acta, and Sagent.

BUSINESS IMPACT

Near-term value: Corporations use Striva DETAIL to work as easily, quickly, and cost-effectively with legacy systems-even archived data-as they do with databases installed last month. the data stored in DB2, IMS, VSAM, ADABAS and IDMS, is just as mission-important today as it ever was. One customer that we interview documented an 800 percent efficiency improvement by using Striva DETAIL.

Enterprise innovation: Reference customers agree that data integration needs are a constantly moving target, and the ability to respond quickly is vitally important. Some large corporations moving to global business are exploiting the full capability of Striva DETAIL to integrate large numbers of computing environments into a series of business critical data warehouses and marts-previously unattainable without Striva's technology.

Technology gains: Leveraging the mission-critical information from heterogeneous systems, especially older systems, typically requires the constan5t attention of database and programming professionals. As the appropriately skilled staff shrinks and the requirements increase over time, it becomes impossible to keep up with the plethora of application initiatives in new areas like data warehouses and e-commerce. DETAIL eliminates the integration bottleneck and risk.

SUCCESS FACTORS

Project strategy: Striva DETAIL can boost the productivity of today's experts and/or enable them to mentor a whole new generation of staff. Large companies or those with complex needs may want to consider the option of using DETAIL as part of Striva OEM's business intelligence or e-CRM tool suit.

Learning: As benefits any project of this importance, assign a string team of business analysts and systems administrators. Personnel who know their way around the corporate data and are familiar with procedural requirements for data integration in a large company will easily master Striva DETAIL and quickly be able to use it productively.

Resources: Striva DETAIL gets high marks for ease of installation and performance. It fits well with TCP/IP networks.

Fit: Striva DETAIL is an especially important option for corporations who are committed to the IBM AS/400, zSeries or iSeries machines.

COMPANY INFO

Striva is a private company with 62 employees

408-573-6798
www.striva.com
Published: January 2002