Application Performance Management and Database Tuning

August 6, 2003. Creative Data has entered into an agreement with VERITAS Software to be a VERITAS APM Professional Services Partner. The combination of VERITAS' Application Performance Management (APM) products and Creative Data’s consultants can tackle any performance tuning or planning project for environments such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, EMC Symmetrix, HP StorageWorks, and IBM Shark. Creative Data has 5 years of experience installing VERITAS' APM products and supporting their customers throughout the U.S. VERITAS' customers turn to Creative Data to avoid expensive hardware upgrades and to meet their business goals with their existing software and systems.

VERITAS i³™ is an integrated software solution that provides a methodology for improving application performance. VERITAS i³™ correlates the application flow across the multi-tiered IT infrastructure by continuously monitoring all the technologies that contribute to response time. This enables rapid detection to correction of performance degradation before the end-user community is adversely affected.

Creative Data, with offices in Glen Allen, VA and Cambridge, MA, has delivered business intelligence services to mid-market and large organizations since 1995. Creative Data not only tunes database applications, we improve client profitability by giving managers the information they need to make timely and accurate decisions.

VERITAS Software (Nasdaq: VRTS) is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and employs more than 6,500 people in 40 countries. With annualized revenues over $1.77 billion in 2003, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world. Through its award-winning and market-leading products focused on business efficiency and continuity, VERITAS Software provides the building blocks for utility computing.