AUDITING AND COMPLIANCE
Audit Multiple Data Repositories
Tizor Systems announced Mantra 4.0, an appliance that provides real-time auditing and
protection for all data that resides on a database, a file server, or a mainframe application.
Mantra supports major database vendors such as SQL Server and IBM DB2 and now
supports legacy mainframe database environments. The product includes agentless local
auditing technology that tracks all user activity, whether on the network or a local-access
terminal, and is transparent to users. Enhanced reporting capabilities allow for customizable automated-report generation and distribution and support for PDF, HTML, XML,
and comma-separated value
(CSV) formats. For more
information, contact Tizor
Systems at 978-243-3200,
800-231-8224, or http://www.tizor.com.
AUDING AND COMPLIANCE
Normalize Audit Data
from Different Database Platforms
SoftTree Technologies announced updates
to its flagship product, DB Audit Expert, that
provide new enterprise-class support for
centralized audit repositories. The software
lets you streamline auditing and compliance operations by using a central repository for
SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, and Sybase
databases. Unified alerting and reporting
capability lets DB Audit Expert monitor and
report on (including alerting) all data access,
updates, data structure modifications, and
changes to security permissions from one
location. Pricing for DB Audit Expert starts
at $329 per database server instance. For
more information, contact SoftTree Technologies at 800-289-9256 or http://www.softtreetech.com.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Integrate BI into SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Business Objects announced that
Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup, a visual
design tool that lets you transform company data into interactive presentations
and business dashboards, now includes
point-and-click connectivity to SQL
Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS).
This capability lets you extract data
relationships and project possible future
business performance. You can share
your dashboards and models through
Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint
or via PDF format and distribute
them over the Web through Microsoft
SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Contact
Business Objects at 866-681-3435 or
http://www.businessobjects.com.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Leverage the Power of Microsoft BI
ICS announced that its business intelligence
(BI) solution, RSinteract, extends its reach
to support SQL Server Analysis cubes and
the SQL Server 2005 Unified Dimensional
Model. RSinteract builds on SQL Server 2005
Reporting Services (SSRS) to put information
in the hands of nonspecialist users. As a server-based Web application, RSinteract requires
no client software or plug-ins. RSinteract lets
business users with a standard Web browser
build new SSRS reports or customize existing
reports on any relational or OLAP data source
defined in SQL Server 2005/2000 without
specialized training. For more information,
contact ICS at info@rsinteract.com or http://www.rsinteract.com.
DATABASE TOOL
Secure Data and Support
Compliance
Embarcadero Technologies announced
Embarcadero ER/Studio 7.1, a data architecture and database design solution that
discovers, documents, and reuses data assets through visual data models. ER/Studio’s
improved identification, classification, and
communication of policies for sensitive
data help support regulatory compliance
and reduce the risk of inappropriate data
access. New ER/Studio properties categorize and label data and objects according to
the level of security and privacy that should
be applied to them. For more information, contact Embarcadero Technologies at
415-834-3131, sales@embarcadero.com, or
http://www.embarcadero.com.
JOB MANAGEMENT
Easily Monitor and Manage
SQL Server Jobs
Argent Software announced Argent Job
Scheduler 5.0, software to help manage and
monitor SQL Server jobs. Job Scheduler
manages and maintains all SQL Server jobs
from one interface and uses SQL Server
for its back-end database storage system
to make historical data and performance
information easy to access. You can create
customized action plans for each job you
create. Job Scheduler can send email, pager,
or Short Message Service (SMS) notifications to you when jobs fail, run late or
too long, or use too much CPU time. The
software can generate job reports to map
how certain jobs perform over the course of
weeks or months. Job Scheduler is scalable,
allowing you to manage 1 or 1000 SQL
Server machines. For more information,
contact Argent Software at 860-674-1700, sales@argent.com, or http://www.argent.com.
SECURITY
Easily Encrypt Database
Objects
Ecatenate announced dbLockdown 2.0,
an encryption solution that helps you secure
your SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005
Express Edition scripts. dbLockdown’s interface lets you view all database objects across
your enterprise and Internet servers. You can
then encrypt stored procedures, views, user-defined functions (UDFs), database triggers,
and server triggers in any number of servers
and databases. dbLockdown automatically
archives each database object it encrypts for easy restoration. dbLockdown also lets
you edit T-SQL scripts for database objects.
For more information, contact Ecatenate at
support@ecatenate.com or at http://www.ecatenate.com.
STORAGE
Ensure Continuous Uptime
to Server Farms
ScaleOut Software announced updates to its flagship
product, ScaleOut StateServer,
which installs as a software
service and provides workload data storage for Microsoft .NET server farms. New
enhancements ensure continuous uptime in difficult conditions such as server failures.
ScaleOut StateServer automatically balances the amount
of storage that each server in
a farm uses. When a server
fails, the ScaleOut StateServer
service retrieves the server’s
session objects from replicas
stored on other servers and
creates new replicas. When
the server comes back online, it’s able to automatically resume its share of
the storage workload. For more information,
contact ScaleOut Software at 503-643-3422,
sales@scaleoutsoftware.com, info@scaleout
software.com, or http://www.scaleoutsoft
ware.com.
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