Recent international conferences in Boston and Hungary have sparked demand for the Bateleur Software Solutions` range of performance products for enhanced Adabas and other data management.
Leon Bouwer, sales executive of Bateleur Software Solutions, delivered presentations at both the International Natural Conference in Boston and the Very Large Database Users Group in Hungary.
Bateleur Software Solutions` locally-developed range of utilities for the Software AG Adabas/Natural database environments is distributed through partnership agreements with Software AG in Germany, Fairware Computing in France and CCA Software in Australia and Asia. The company also holds Software AG, Mobius Management Systems, CedAr Software, CCA Software, Search Software America and Treehouse agencies for SA.
The Bateleur product portfolio includes the Adasplit archiving utility, the Adasort sequencing utility, ZipDitto zip utility software and Estrip, an extender for the Adastrip data extraction utility.
In his presentations, Bouwer tackled many of the major challenges faced by organisations with huge databases: increased volumes of data, the proprietary nature of Adabas, growing extract and batch run times, the length of time it takes to download data into data warehouses and call centres, and the fact that normal extract and file transfer uses prohibitive amounts of CPU time, productive time and network bandwidth.
"The delegates at both conferences were very excited when they realised that Bateleur could offer quick, simple and affordable solutions to all these problems," Bouwer says.
Bouwer used South African reference sites to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Bateleur product range. The examples given included: * An insurance company, which read and extracted 1 million records from its debtors` file with 4.5 million records in two minutes and 13 seconds, using Adastrip.
* A media company completed an extraction which took six hours and 48 minutes with a Natural program in 15 minutes, again using Adastrip - and saving eight days` worth of processing every month.
* An insurance company - using Estrip, an extraction to create a secondary file of 440 000 records related to 420 000 policies was executed in six minutes.
* An agricultural company uses ZipDitto to save up to 99%% CPU time on file transfer jobs monthly.
* A government department calculated that Natural code to archive more than 85 million records using information from four related files would run for 311 days. With Adaplit, the result was achieved in just 27.2 hours.
"It was clear to both audiences that our products are developed in response to requests from customers to solve real problems," Bouwer says.
"They realised that we understand the challenges they face, whether they are large, unwieldy files or data formats which are not compatible with open systems.
"We are confident that our recent successes in France, the US, Ireland and Australia will continue as the demand for our products grows."
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