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Alta Data ERM Engine

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As a secure document repository component of your organization’s document management system, the Alta Data ERM Engine provides performance that you never before expected from a database system. It’s scalable—virtually unlimited. It’s blindingly fast at any size, and you can load up to a million documents per hour, regardless of format. It’s small—the database plus its index is usually much smaller than the source data itself. And when you change your mind, the index is virtual—no need to re-index to redeploy for a new purpose. You can create and save reports, or any authorized individual can create them on the fly, using any fielded information on any page as an element in your new search report. And this is a proven, working, field-tested system, ready to provide you and your customers with a trouble-free experience.

Alta Data ERM Engine flowchart for a simple application
Functional diagram of a simple Alta Data ERM Engine application.

Unmatched Speed at Any Size

The Alta Data ERM Engine's search speed stays the same—blindingly fast—no matter what size the database, in contrast to competitive document-archive systems: SQL cannot handle hundreds of billions of rows, and a multi-terabyte full-text database can take many minutes to return a search. The Alta Data ERM Engine’s performance is fast across the size spectrum. Search terabytes in seconds. Astonish your customers by solving big problems for them with this extension to your brand.

Flowchart for an HVTO Deployment of the Alta Data ERM EngineArchives for the HVTO World

High-volume transaction output (HVTO) publishers, such as government agencies and most large corporations, print millions of administrative and other pages per month using modern and legacy composition and line-of-business applications. The Alta Data ERM Engine's API interfaces easily to format-transformation utilities, which convert printstreams to Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format. The Alta Data ERM Engine indexes and stores the document in its archive, ready for web-driven or application-driven searches. The Alta Data ERM Engine is available packaged in a standalone server or as a hosted ASP solution. Professional services experts are available to help you with integration or to deliver complete applications.

Economical to Deploy

The Alta Data ERM Engine runs on single- or dual-quad servers (2.8 GHz suggested) with four to eight gigabytes of RAM. As with all databases, proper storage and channel selection are important elements of the system specification. Unlike SQL-based or full-text databases, however, the Alta Data ERM Engine does not rely on iron for its performance, and even a heavily loaded deployment will require astonishingly little computing hardware, infrastructure, and management.

Save 90 Percent in Deployment Time

Operation is simple, too. You start by loading the data, often at rates of up to one million documents per hour. All data and position information is indexed. No predefined structures; load the system in hours, not days or months. Next, define structures, all of which are virtual. Then, deploy in hours or days. As requirements change, new searches can be created in minutes.