Stuller Selects Applimation for Oracle® E-Business Suite Data Archiving and Subsetting; Applimation Informia™ Solutions to Polish Application Performance of One of the World's Leading Jewelers

Business Wire, Nov 2, 2005

NEW YORK -- Applimation, Inc., the leading provider of application and information lifecycle management solutions, announced today that it has been selected by Stuller Inc., one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of fine jewelry and jewelry-related products, to improve the performance of its Oracle E-Business Suite applications. Stuller selected Applimation Informia Archive to improve production environment performance and Informia Subset to optimize and streamline database management.

"Stuller has tremendous transaction volume driven by more than 300,000 products and 50,000 jewelry professionals around the world," said Grady Quebedeaux, Information Technology Director at Stuller. "As a result of this volume, the performance of our Oracle E-Business Suite has begun to suffer and the time and resources required to maintain database environments for testing and development has dramatically increased. We conducted a thorough review of archive and subset technology solutions and it became quickly apparent that Applimation was the technology and market leader in the data management space. No other technology provider came close to matching its functionality and value."

Applimation Informia Archive lowers infrastructure and maintenance costs, streamlines application upgrade processes and helps meet regulatory requirements by identifying inactive data and archiving it in online data stores that are seamlessly accessed through the Oracle E-Business Suite user interface. The Informia Archive Dashboard adds further value by enabling Oracle application administrators to continuously monitor the distribution of data and optimize application performance through proactive data archiving.

Applimation Informia Subset creates logical, intact and fully functional subset instances to use for testing, development and training. Powerful filtering functionality allows organizations to quickly and easily define the scope of the subset instance and ensures the integrity of the Oracle E-Business Suite business rules and database relationships. Applimation Informia Subset also provides scrambling to protect sensitive data and mask proprietary or confidential information with test and development databases.

"Application performance and database maintenance is increasingly becoming a priority for large transaction volume companies like Stuller," said Bob Markese, chief executive officer of Applimation. "The Applimation Informia suite has been specifically designed to quickly and efficiently tackle these two critical challenges with automated, easy-to-use solutions that require nominal end-user training."

About Applimation

Applimation, Inc. is the leading provider of application and information lifecycle management solutions with more than 300 customers worldwide. The Applimation Lifecycle Management portfolio includes Applimation Informia(TM), a comprehensive solution for managing the impact of data growth, and Applimation Integra(TM), a continuous monitoring and documentation solution for managing changes that occur throughout the application lifecycle. For more information, please visit www.applimation.com.