Why rasdaman saves your budget

• Attractive, high-performance value-added services. rasdaman supports online delivery of maps, customizable by the user via Web browser. The powerful servlet technology ensures fastest response times on high data volumes.

• Fast installation and configuration. System installation and docking to your database system is routine. Map definition as well as import and export (manually or automated) is done jointly in an inhouse workshop, followed by service configuration. This ensures that the whole service is made operational on short terms.

• Superior Total Cost of Ownership. Substantial cost savings arise from several ingredients: modest hardware requirements due to the efficient algorithms in the intelligent server; low bandwidth usage through the method of " what you get is what you need which ships only the required information to the client (incl. dynamic transfer compression); small client hardware (Web PC, PDA, etc.) due to the "thin client through intelligent server" architecture; genuine multi-user access through an unlimited number of parallel server processes; no expensive additional modules required, because the raster query language allows to phrase complex geo operations rapidly and easily - with automatic serversid optimisation.

• Mature, stable technology. While large and small software vendors frantically work on raster extensions for their systems, rasdaman is being used in international projects since 1997. With rasdaman you don't buy a "version 1.0", but stable, reliable server technology.

• Secured investment. Open international standards like SQL92 and ODMG protect your investment.

• rasdaman scales with your demand. Right now you have only 2-D images? But maybe tomorrow you will need to maintain 3D time series or measurement series. Or to build a warehouse over such data. No problem with rasdaman: Without costly upgrade, new modules etc. rasdaman serves multidimensional data efficiently too.

• Seamless embedding in existing GIS/database infrastructure. Several adaptors to GISs and geo clients exist, more can be done on short terms on request. If your system supports OGC WMS, then coupling is a matter of configuration only, without any programming. On database side, rasdaman relies on industry standards such as Oracle, IBM DB2, and Informix.

...for the Solution Provider and Application Developer

• Effective and efficient application development. Core functionality which had to be implemented again and again in the past is accomplished through simple commands to the intelligent database engine - for example, cutout and search in data, but also format conversion. The resulting application code is lightweight, hence less error prone and easier to maintain.

• Conformance with international standards. Interoperability with as many products as possible is a must today. Rasdaman achieves this through open standards: the query language builds upon the the established ISO Standard SQL92. C++- and Java API implement the industry standard for object databases, ODMG, in its current version 2.0.

• Highest performance. through genuine multidimensional storage management, through the high-performance query engine, through the intelligent optimisation of storage, access, and transfer.

• Easy to use. Database application developers feel immediately comfortable with the SQL style and the object-oriented development environment. The online HTML documentation gives detailed help through a mouse click.

• Powerful flexible query language. multidimensional operators, embedded in SQL style, allow for search, extraction, and data analysis. The expressive power of the signal, imaging, and statistics operations goes up to the Discrete Fourier Transform.

• Fast, competent Hotline. If you have a special problem wich particular challenges: Our experienced developers are only a phone call away.