Appfluent Announces Appfluent Visibility v5.1 for Big Data

Business activity and data usage analysis for large scale analytical data delivers visibility to increase operational efficiency and reduce data management costs.

ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Appfluent Technology, Inc., the leader in business activity and data usage software for analytic applications and data warehousing, today announced the availability of Appfluent Visibility v5.1 which enables enterprises to manage data smarter and better aligned with the business.

With data growth exploding to tens and hundreds of terabytes and increasing complexity of analytics driven by business users, enterprise IT is under increasing pressure to meet business demands while controlling data management costs.  Appfluent Visibility v5.1 delivers insight into how analytic applications and data are used by the business to enable IT to retain and optimize the most relevant assets  to increase operational efficiency and reduce data management costs.

Appfluent Visibility v5.1 uniquely integrates with leading analytic applications such as IBM Cognos, SAP Business Objects, MicroStrategy and Oracle BI and non-intrusively monitors database activity to correlate business activity and data usage for large scale data warehouses deployed on OracleExadata, Teradata and IBM DB2.

With Appfluent Visibility v5.1 enterprise IT managers are able to:

• Map BI and data warehouse usage to business units and departments to get a business-centric view of utilization of analytic applications and data to justify costs and prioritize investments.
• Identify how data is frequently used to improve tuning and optimization of the most relevant data.
• Discover unused or dormant data, inactive users and applications to efficiently streamline assets.
• Proactively get notified when activity and performance exceed acceptable service levels with unique 'variance analysis' to increase operational efficiency.
• Identify BI application users, reports and their ad-hoc queries that severely impact data warehouse performance to improve user-experience.
• Audit users and applications that access sensitive database tables and columns and the specific query activity to ensure trusted usage of data.

About Appfluent Technology, Inc.

Appfluent enables enterprises to manage Big Data smarter and better aligned with the business. Appfluent Visibility® provides insight into business activity, exposes how data is used and what data is unused, and tracks inappropriate user activity. With insight provided by Appfluent, IT organizations can rationalize costs and plan investments, respond faster with fewer resources and more efficiently manage exploding data growth. Visit www.appfluent.com

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