DataNovata is a revolutionary new tool that gives your end-users immediate access to the data they need, and can form part of a Cloud Computing solution.

Within minutes, DataNovata will generate a feature-rich, web-enabled application for any relational database, providing powerful, secure data retrieval and a host of facilities to tailor your users' access to that data.

One possible use is to provide easy and instant access to all your archived data, reducing the costs of supporting old and expensive platforms.

Introducing DataNovata

DataNovata is a powerful software tool designed to rapidly build a software application giving access to the data within any relational database in order to satisfy any user or statutory requirements. It is widely used to enable the streamlining of IT Infrastructure through Platform Rationalization and Application Rationalization.

Using such an application a user can, for example, easily search and view invoices received for individual suppliers, invoice items, delivery notes, payment history, and so on.

DataNovata uses information about the database's structure held within the database itself in order to do this and provides many facilities for tailoring the application to take account of any further specific requirements. A DataNovata application will therefore effectively replace the enquiry facilities of any application normally used to access this data should it need to be decommissioned for any reason.

The DataNovata-built application's interface is designed with the end-user in mind. It requires no technical expertise and is specifically designed to enable easy retrieval and navigation of the data. As the application follows logical paths and relationships of the data not necessarily utilized by the original application, it may also be a powerful forensic tool for the detection of fraud.

Additionally, Treehouse Software's tcACCESS gives DataNovata live, read-only access to ADABAS and other tcACCESS-supported mainframe databases.

A Technical Perspective

From an IT perspective, within minutes DataNovata will generate a feature rich, web enabled application for any relational database, providing powerful, secure data retrieval and a host of facilities to tailor and control your users' access to that data.

An 'out-of-the-box' DataNovata application can be tailored to suit your precise requirements using a variety of techniques. From on-line design, through configuration parameters and simple DataNovata Scripts all the way to Java coding, the ideal application can easily be created. A fully tailored system can be ready within hours, days or weeks at most, depending on complexity.

For unstructured databases (i.e., relational databases without unique and foreign keys) DataNovata includes a Data Structure Tool that can help analyze your data and create these structures, enabling DataNovata to build the application. The tool can also be used to quickly create an application for analytical databases where defining keys within the relational database itself is unnecessary and undesirable.

In addition, if your data is in a non-relational format, our expertise in migration of non-relational legacy data will enable you to take advantage of DataNovata's power.

DataNovata is used by enterprises for a wide range of application and data tasks from rapid development of applications to accessing decommissioned data. Just a few of the high-impact uses it has today are highlighted here.

Application Sunsetting, Decommissioning, and Retirement

Organizations are undertaking major upgrades of their computer systems, phasing out older systems and replacing them with modern software. Many of them have applications that are superfluous to requirements, no longer fully supported, expensive to run or on an obsolete platform.

Continuing to pay software licence fees to run the application just to view this archive data is obviously undesirable. If the entire platform is being replaced, then that option may not even be available.

The problem of what to do with the legacy data is an inevitable consequence of such an initiative. When applications are decommissioned, there is often a statutory obligation to retain historical data or other reasons for maintaining easy access to it. There may also be a legal obligation to delete End of Life data.

DataNovata is the ideal tool for rapidly creating a robust web-enabled data retrieval application and is the cost-effective answer to Application Sunsetting, Application Decommissioning, Application Retirement and End of Life processing.

Application Portfolio Management

DataNovata is the ideal solution to the application redundancy and upgrade problems often created by Mergers and Acquisitions and highlighted by Application Portfolio Management. Where data must be retained and accessible DataNovata provides a cost-effective solution.

With DataNovata, an organization can free itself from the licensing, maintenance and hardware costs of the original application while making it easy to provide secure access to anyone, anywhere.

With the cost savings, DataNovata has a very high return on investment!

Analytical Databases

DataNovata provides the perfect user interface for analytical databases.

Analytical databases can have terabytes or petabytes of data, usually without any relationships defined in the schema. While this improves the speed of access, subsequently sifting through this data and finding the information you need can be time consuming.

However, with DataNovata you can use the built-in Data Structure Tool to define the relationships without ever touching the original database (this relationship information is held within DataNovata). You can then automatically generate an application to access the information, using that application to drill down and traverse the relationships, all within an intuitive user interface that requires no expert knowledge.

Now the answers to your questions are at your fingertips; and if the database changes, just regenerate your application!

Legacy Databases

If a legacy system to be decommissioned uses a non-relational database, we have the tools to migrate the legacy data to a relational database before using DataNovata to generate the application.

Unstructured data can easily be structured using the Data Structure Tool that is part of DataNovata.

Application Renovation

With an aging application where there is a wish to renovate the user interface, DataNovata is the perfect solution. It enables the rapid generation of a complete enquiry system with a modern, intuitive and feature-rich front-end.

Because DataNovata builds the application from the existing database, any off-line processing is unaffected.

Application Testing

For applications in development or maintenance, an independent but structured view of the database is often useful for verifying database operations. A DataNovata- generated enquiry system forms an invaluable testing tool.