Imagine a world in which your databases are monitored 24x7x365. Imagine - If something goes wrong, it fixes itself. Imagine – that something is fixed even before it goes wrong. Imagine a world in which your DBAs have information at their fingertips to enable you to make strategic decisions on your database budget spending. Don’t imagine; that world is here. On July 18th, ExtraQuest became StrataVia and our flagship product, Data Palette version 3.0, was launched. 

This day marks the beginning of an exciting era, where predictive analytics, coupled with standardized operating procedures (SOPs), all driven by intelligent automation, revolutionize the art of database administration. Data Palette achieves this by a unique, patent-pending architecture and set of features that are unsurpassed in the marketplace. 

Data Palette’s architecture is the foundation that transforms database administration from grunge to art. Mixing paint is grunge work. Using a vision and deliberately applying brush strokes to a canvas to create a masterpiece is an art. Fighting the same DBA fires day after day is grunge work. Creating a SOP and allowing Data Palette to trigger that SOP before the system fails is an art. Data Palette’s architectural components work together to remove you from grunge work and allow you to perform the art of database administration.

Just like a collector in the art world, Data Palette’s Collector Module knows the characteristics, significance, merits and attributes of different genres in the database environment. Moreover, just as art collectors and experts work hand in hand to assess worth and add value. Data Palette, too, has such an expert - the Expert Engine.

The expert’s job is to know the overall business and significance of critical information and to evaluate and disseminate the information so that wise decisions are made. So too, the Expert Engine’s job is to analyze data and apply its business intelligence to your data environment. 

Data Palette’s art gallery is in its Repository, where it stores  important information about your data environment. Art is easily accessed by visiting local museums, reading books and browsing the Internet art galleries throughout the world. Your data is just as easily accessed. If you need to know what is going on in your database world and want to analyze changes and predict actions, then you may do so through the Nerve Center. If you need advice or need to report for regulatory compliance, then you go to the Reports Center. If you’re out of town when there’s a special event, then just observe and manage from your Mobile Client. And, rest assured, just as an art gallery protects its masterpieces, Data Palette and its Repository protect your valuable data.

Working together, each of these components combine to make Data Palette revolutionary. It houses the minds of masters, capturing their expertise in standard operating procedures that are rolled out automatically. To reproduce masterpieces for the mass market, you need automation. Automation frees your time to craft new work, aid in other areas or generate more income. Moreover, if your expert is away temporarily, you have an insurance policy. Anyone else can step into their shoes and use their best practices.

Data Palette is also revolutionary through its predictive analytics capabilities, allowing you to see into the future, preventing problems before they occur. Once you understand the current or future problem, Data Palette’s unique SOPs that encapsulate collective DBA knowledge and best practices in a repeatable, cross-platform solution are invoked to solve the problem.

So, welcome to the world of Data Palette 3.0 and beyond! Data Palette’s functionality allows your DBAs to concentrate less on mundane problems and more on strategic business problems. The end result: significantly increased operational efficiency associated with your most valuable asset – your corporate data.

Ron Krubeck
Vice President - engineering

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