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EMBARCADERO TECH ANNOUNCES NEW LINE OF POWERFUL DB SOLUTIONS

Embarcadero Technologies Inc, a leading provider of application and database lifecycle management solutions, has announced a new line of products that work in conjunction with Embarcadero DBArtisan, a leading database administration solution. The three products, Embarcadero Space Analyst, Embarcadero Performance Analyst and Embarcadero Capacity Analyst, provide database administrators (DBAs) with advanced management and performance diagnostics for complex, corporate database environments. Each of the products will be available with the latest version of DBArtisan 7.2, and will initially support the Oracle platform, with additional database support in subsequent releases.

The Embarcadero Analyst products possess advanced management capabilities, providing DBAs with the tools to make intelligent decisions about critical database issues, before problems arise. The Analyst series products are the first in a line of "intelligent" solutions designed to simplify the process of troubleshooting and resolving problems that threaten the availability and performance of critical databases. Through the integration of the Analyst tools with DBArtisan, DBAs now have one comprehensive solution for detecting, analyzing and correcting performance issues in enterprise databases with which organizations run their business.

"As an Oracle DBA, much of my daily work is complex and time consuming," said Don Burleson, renowned Oracle expert and Oracle Press author. "The easy-to-use interface and intelligence that is built into the new Analyst products within DBArtisan reduces the tedium of my job and allows me to more quickly diagnose and troubleshoot complex database problems."

"The Embarcadero Analyst products are the first in a wave of smarter and deeper offerings that are powerful enough for experts, yet easy-to-use for database novices," said Rob Young, director of administration tools, Embarcadero Technologies. "With the release of DBArtisan 7.2, in conjunction with the Space, Performance and Capacity Analyst modules, our customers can proactively identify and resolve crucial database performance issues, resulting in greater access to critical information that will enable faster and more informed business decisions."

Embarcadero Space Analyst

Embarcadero Space Analyst provides sophisticated diagnostic capabilities to troubleshoot bottlenecks and performance problems that result from poor space management, ensuring optimal utilization of database storage. A wizard-driven smart reorganization utility handles full storage structure and object reorganization needs.

Embarcadero Performance Analyst

Running inside the Embarcadero DBArtisan console or within a Web browser, Embarcadero Performance Analyst helps DBAs pinpoint performance problems that threaten a database's availability or response times. It provides key performance metrics, bottleneck analysis, workload and SQL execution statistics, and user-configurable thresholds.

Embarcadero Capacity Analyst

Embarcadero Capacity Analyst offers intelligent insight into the past, current and future inner-workings of a database. By collecting historical database and performance metrics at user-defined intervals, Capacity Analyst provides historical trend analysis along with smart forecasting abilities that allow DBAs to plan for the future needs of their key databases.

About DBArtisan

In addition to the new Analyst products, DBArtisan 7.2.0 solidifies its cross-platform supremacy by providing enhancements that accommodate the latest feature offerings from Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and Sybase. New "DBA in mind" features that allow user-defined explorer bookmarks, keyboard hotkeys and multiple editor emulation modes have also been built into the user interface, helping to reduce time spent on the most common day-to-day administration tasks.

DBArtisan is a leading database administration solution for managing Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 Universal Databases. Its rich feature set helps database professionals maximize the availability, performance and security of databases throughout the enterprise. DBArtisan enables DBAs to concurrently manage multiple databases from a single graphical console, creating dramatic productivity gains for both experienced and novice database professionals.

Pricing and Availability

Space Analyst, Performance Analyst and Capacity Analyst will ship with DBArtisan 7.2 for the Oracle platform and will be generally available in June 2003. Support for Microsoft SQL Server will be included in the next version of the Analyst products, planned for release in the Fall. Please contact Embarcadero Technologies directly to obtain information on pricing for DBArtisan 7.2 and the Analyst products.

Beta User Participation

To request more information on the Embarcadero DBArtisan or Analyst Series beta user program, please contact DBArtisanbeta@embarcadero.com.