What if every time an application needed to store or access data, developers had to include the coding necessary to instruct the hardware to perform file management functions instead of simply being able to call the OS to produce the right file information?

Application development would require longer lead times, be more complex, more expensive and more difficult to maintain.

Without a Corporate Data Operating System capability, this exact situation holds true for enterprise information. Developers spend a significant amount of their time - estimated to be over 35% - writing code to integrate data. Consequently, integrating enterprise data to modern applications takes longer and costs far more than it should.

With seeMore's Corporate Data Operating System capabilities, application developers can decouple their applications from their data sources, modularizing their data. Developers can write applications without concern for data integration requirements. These applications call seeMore, which finds, transforms, and delivers the information to the application. The result is:

• Simpler, more functional applications
• Faster application development
• Easier faster response to changes in data sources
• Lower costs and lead times for maintaining applications.

One of the primary functions of every computer operating system (OS) is the control and management of data.

While a system's OS manages applications that control local data, what controls the enterprise data for your applications - data that's distributed across many systems and in many file formats around the world?

seeMore has the answer. The seeMore Virtual Database Server acts as a powerful Corporate Data Operating System that provides the ability to harness the power of your data. With seeMore, regardless of your data's location, type or format, you can:

• Modularize the data from your application,
• Access, manage, and view any data,
• Replicate and distribute information,
• Update data sources,
• Request data without knowing where it physically resides,
• Add or remove data sources in a plug'n'play fashion,
• Generate alerts and initiate events based on changes in data,
• Transparently integrate new data bases with existing applications,
• Use legacy databases with new applications,
• Interact with multiple data sources as if they were a single data source.

seeMore provides IT departments with the capabilities to manage and control their corporate data assets.

One can better understand the operating systems analogy when a comparison is made between the functions of an OS and the seeMore Corporate Data Operating System:

Companies are creating vast treasure troves of valuable data that can be used as strategic information in:

• e-Commerce applications
• Decision support
• Customer Relationship Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Report generation and Business Intelligence

However, there are significant barriers to accessing and using raw data as strategic information. Because data is often stored in a variety of databases and incompatible formats, trying to use incompatible data sources creates a modern day Tower of Babel.

In the same way that a computer operating system controls data storage and access, seeMore manages all your data sources across the enterprise. You get fast access to data along with the ability to control and manage all of your data sources as if it were a single data source.

In keeping with the operating systems concept and capability analogy, seeMore also provides the following functions for enterprise data management:

• Audit tracking of data access and changes; User authorization and access security;
• Encryption of data to ensure confidentiality in transit.

seeMore Technologies helps companies harness the power of their information by providing an open, standards-based Corporate Data Operating System.