For years, packaged solutions for Database Archiving seemed like a beautiful foster child that had to be adopted only after a home grown baby was attempted, perhaps conceived but finally failed.

With nearly 1000 customers around the world using packaged Database Archiving solutions, there’s now the industry accepted threshold of customer proof points. The good thing is that most customers have reported significant ROI from their archiving software to the analyst firms who have conducted customer surveys in this area. A most recent study has also shown Solix doubling market share in the last two years*.

Solix customers for Database Archiving range from Asia, Europe and North America in diverse verticals like Discrete Manufacturing, Telecom, Logistics, Federal and CPG running packaged ERPs/CRMs like Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Siebel, BaaN and custom applications on Oracle and other Databases. All of them reported a high ROI.

While we have had market validation – from both customers and analysts – our challenge is to provide even a higher ROI than what our competitors offer, and that’s where innovation comes in.

Our most recent innovation was what Sai referred in his last blog: our integration with Oracle Universal Online Archive. With this integration customers will get unmatched higher security, retention management, storage management, Records Management, and auditing to the archived data. The Compliance Officer can have a good night’s sleep, confident that archived data cannot be modified. This is what only Solix offers among Database Archiving vendors. And we are confident, that customers will now see exponentially higher ROI as they adopt this integrated offering.

* This compares market shares as stated in Gartner’s September 2006 Report versus their October 2008 Report.