What Are SBAs?
SBAs break with a 25-year tradition of database-centered application development by providing information access via powerful search and indexing technologies coupled with standard Web technologies. The result is a single, astonishingly scalable platform for information presentation, reporting and search. SBAs have an infinite range of uses, touching on every mission-critical business application:
- Business Applications (Business Intelligence, CRM, Compliance, Logistics, Supply Chain Management...)
- Information Management (Information Lifecycle Management, Master Data Management, Database Offloading...)
- eBusiness (eCommerce, Classifieds, Media & Publishing, Social Networking...)
- Enterprise Search (Unified search across all data, whether internal or external, structured or unstructured)
- Government Solutions
- OEM/ISV Solutions
Why Are SBAs Important?
Astonishing Scalability
Index-based SBAs are 100s of times faster than relational database technologies, yet a next-generation engine like CloudView is sufficiently complex to meet 95% of user information search, reporting and access needs. SBAs can further provide sub-second query processing against staggering volumes of data (billions of records and petabytes of data) for thousands of simultaneous users. And they can maintain this data in real-time, dropping data latency rates to mere seconds from the 24 hours or more typical for datawarehouse architectures.High Usability
With fuzzy matching, natural language querying, and navigation of results via dynamic data classification and categorization tools, SBAs are inherently user-friendly. The independent data layer created in an SBA is also highly practical: organizations can build it once, then leverage it in a thousand ways. SBAs are also practical in that they transform messy, previously unexploited content into usable information assets: SBAs can reach beyond databases to harness massive volumes of 'unstructured' content like email, Office documents, multimedia files and Web pages - content containing valuable qualitative and emotive intelligence.Unprecedented Agility
Non-intrusive, service-oriented SBAs are very fast to develop (2-8 weeks on average for CloudView SBAs) and can be easily modified without disturbing underlying data production systems, making them ideal for the rapid protoyping and iterative release cycles central to Agile Software Development methodologies. But they support more than just agile software development, they help build more agile businesses. They help organizations better identify trends and respond more quickly and effectively to change with their capacity to:- Instantly bridge data silos
- Identify emerging trends in high volume 'weak-signal' data (like Web content)
- Deliver unified data access and reporting in real-time.
Low Cost
SBAs provide these benefits at a surprisingly low cost. They are far less resource intensive than traditional relational database technologies (in terms of both hardware and staff), and they provide a remarkable depth and breadth of capability through a single, adaptable platform.Why is CloudView the Leading SBA Platform?
Much of CloudView's success as an SBA infrastructure is due to the engine's unique evolution: CloudView alone was designed from inception for both the Web and the enterprise. Because of this dual DNA, CloudView provides a singular balance of corporate functionality and Web simplicity, scalability and innovation essential for successful SBAs.On the Web side, CloudView drives an 16 billion page public search engine and serves 100 million unique monthly visitors through its public and customer installations. On the enterprise front, CloudView couples Web performance and scalability with:
- Advanced Semantic Processing of Unstructured Data
- Superior Structured Data Handling
- Flexible Information Access
- Full Compliance with Existing Security Systems
