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GridApp Clarity™

In today's complex database environment, it is critical to have standards, best practices, and automation around database administration. How can you ensure security patches are deployed on all production database servers? If someone makes an unauthorized change on a critical database, how could you identify that event? How can you guarantee that every new database throughout the organization is deployed in a consistent, standardized fashion? How can you expedite database refreshes as the pile of work on your plate continues to grow?

Most importantly, how can you deliver on these challenges without spending all your time developing and maintaining scripts?

GridApp Clarity's out-of-the-box database automation makes it possible for organizations to validate database and server configurations, provision and patch new database environments, and manage change in existing environments in an ongoing fashion. Clarity empowers DBA architects and managers to drive and enforce standards, without having to write complex scripts or packages that they need to maintain over time. GridApp management philosophy, Model Based Automation, is the key to the high level of success and rapid implementation enterprises realize with Clarity.

What is Model Based Automation?

Other automation solutions (DCA, RBA, etc.) typically require the end user to maintain the scripts that have the 'know-how' to perform operations. This doesn't bode well for automating the database as the tasks are complex and constantly changing as well as littered with workarounds to handle countless edge cases. Challenges include:

• Significant effort to create and maintain scripts that can truly handle the high level of environment variability faced by the enterprise

• Ongoing burden to support new versions and functionality across various operating systems and architectures (e.g. clustered, standalone, etc.)

• Most common and challenging scenario for the enterprise - maintenance of scripts that have been provided by the DCA/RBA provider. The only thing worse than creating and maintaining your own code is to maintain someone else's.

GridApp Clarity takes a completely different approach. As opposed to forcing people to create and/or maintain scripts, Clarity simply requires the user to define a model which represents the target end state of a system. All the actual know-how to get to that end state comes with the software. This know-how includes countless workarounds to handle inevitable edge cases, environment validation to maximize success rate and updates to handle the latest database versions. Benefits of the Model Based Automation approach include:

• Drive value quickly to validate the 'automation' decision
• No need to transform DBAs into developers
• Dramatically reduce the time to assess and implement an automation solution
• True ongoing support for evolving database functionality
• Identify problems before you run the automation

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Some of the largest companies in the world rely on GridApp Clarity to:

• Drive standards throughout their database environment
• Accelerate time to market by reducing deployment timetables by 90%
• Empower developers and application experts to self-service provision databases
• Automate custom, repetitive database operational activities
• Reduce dependencies on experts
• Free up critical DBA resources
• Bring Oracle RAC into the enterprise
• Ensure compliance with standards and other best practices