Alternative Solutions
DataFrameworks is unique in its ability to incorporate business awareness into existing underlying file system resources. To our knowledge, no other commercial application introduces structure, policies, and budgets into the underlying file system, thereby ensuring applicability to all file-based workflow software applications, in any combination. Without DataFrameworks, companies typically deploy the following alternatives:
 
Status Quo of "Buy More Storage"
  • Approach to data management is to throw capital at the problem
  • Exacerbates the problem by failing to address “root” causes. Makes the haystack bigger!
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Manual Processes

  • Team of "filebrarians"
 
  • Manual “data wrangling” to meet production schedules
  • Manual interaction / communication with business unit / production management
  • Manual processes lack scalability resulting in constant day to day operational errors
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Custom "In House" Software Development
  • Funding non “core competency” infrastructure tools
  • Typically team lacks formal commercial software product expertise
 
  • Resulting in a series of non-integrated scripts
  • Lack administration interfaces and therefore require on-site “developer” support
  • Lacks scalability
  • Obsolescence/erosion/instability due to employee turnover
  • Far more expensive than DataFrameworks
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Reactive Versus Proactive Approaches
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