Enterprises today face competition from both known and unpredictable sources throughout the world.

Efficiency in both cost-reduction and production streamlining is increasingly imperative.

And beyond straightforward competition, there is unremitting attack by increasingly sophisticated criminals using every possible means to gain unauthorized access and control of financial and informational assets.

New Challenges

Today's Enterprise has many new challenges, each a danger and an opportunity in an increasingly dynamic world:

• an ever-growing volume of both stored and transactional data, including that from and to the Internet, both wired and wireless, affecting enterprise applications
• an ever-growing set of data sources, facilitated by
  • the always-on Internet, accessed every minute by active users anywhere on the planet
  • mobile access to the Internet everywhere over wireless networks
  • dramatically cheaper and more voluminous storage of data, on an ever greater variety of devices and media
• ever-growing threat of
  • data security breaches by that same group of worldwide users
  • data integrity violations (the needle in the haystack following electronic break-in), and
  • tighter regulatory oversight: Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, varying by region both in the U.S. and in Europe and Asia

Examples of Data Sources include the worldwide web, the wired and wireless Internet, SOA-based applications, electronic communications including email and instant messaging, databases, and shared and personal files.

New Tools

The new and growing speed of competition, attack, and opportunity demands new tools and techniques, both to stay abreast and to get ahead of the challenges and the competition.

Time-to-information™ has become as important, or more so, than time-to-market, because responsiveness has become frequently the key to dominance, and sometimes survival.

In this new and evolving environment, SQLstream has much to offer information managers and application developers, because its new and patented paradigm parallels the needs for responsiveness by enterprises and by the information management tools that sustain those enterprises.