GoldenGate Veridata™ Gains Momentum as More Organizations Make High Availability a Top Priority

Need for Verifying Data Accuracy and Consistency across Active Databases Drives Demand for GoldenGate Veridata

San Francisco, Calif. - September 18, 2006 - GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of transactional data management solutions, today announced that GoldenGate Veridata@trade;, a powerful solution for comparing data between active databases, continues to gain momentum as more worldwide organizations make application availability a top priority. Among the organizations investing in GoldenGate Veridata as part of their high availability initiatives include Overstock.com, Montefiore Medical Center, Park Nicollet Health Services and T-Chek Systems. As organizations look to achieve the highest levels of application availability for users both inside and outside the enterprise, they are also putting more rigorous verification procedures in place to check for any data inconsistencies across different business applications which could yield unexpected results and lead to regulatory, financial or legal risks.

Network system outages and application errors are not unusual and organizations need to be fully prepared to automatically switch over to a secondary system in the event of any planned or unplanned outage. Online retailers, like Overstock.com, and large healthcare institutions, like Montefiore Medical Center, just cannot afford application downtime. If an outage occurs and application users are immediately switched over to the live standby system, businesses need the assurance that their failsafe data is accurate and consistent. With GoldenGate Veridata, organizations can quickly and easily confirm data consistency across disparate systems within the enterprise.

The GoldenGate Veridata solution rapidly compares large volumes of dynamic data to identify and report discrepancies, without interruption to ongoing business processes. A recent survey conducted by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) found that key technologies that can assist high availability are of the utmost importance to organizations developing a comprehensive business continuity plan.

According to Phil Kloot, manager of HP NonStop Systems & Integration Services Information Technology at Park Nicollet Health Systems, an integrated care system based in St. Louis Park, Minn., "We place a good deal of importance on high availability because of our electronic medical record system. We don’t have paper backups for most patient charts, which means that our standby system needs to be absolutely consistent with our primary. Any loss of critical patient data in a planned or unplanned outage could challenge our ability to provide patient care, making high availability and data accuracy across the enterprise top priorities."

"Inaccurate and inconsistent data can create a range of potential risks if not addressed and many of which could lead to financial and legal risk exposure," said Sami Akbay, vice president of marketing at GoldenGate. "Today many large organizations have hundreds of applications relying on accurate, available data but with no easy way of knowing that the data is indeed reliable. GoldenGate Veridata is a quick way to identify any discrepancies which would otherwise be catastrophic if not identified and dealt with," added Akbay.

GoldenGate Veridata is easily configurable and can be run at any time and as regularly as your business requires, with no impact to the active databases. Today, GoldenGate Veridata runs on Oracle and HP NonStop systems and it is a stand-alone product which does not require other GoldenGate products or solutions. For more information about GoldenGate Veridata, please contact info@goldengate.com or 415-777-0200.

About GoldenGate Software
GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leader in transactional data management (TDM) solutions for maximizing the performance, accessibility, and availability of enterprise data. GoldenGate's technology offerings enable businesses to capture, route, transform, deliver, and verify transactional data in real time across heterogeneous IT environments. With more than 300 customers worldwide, GoldenGate is used to drive solutions for critical initiatives in high availability, disaster tolerance, and real-time data integration. Customers include Visa, Bank of America, Sabre Holdings, Comcast, Federated Investors, Mayo Foundation, UBS, and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISVs and systems integrators including ACI Worldwide, GE Healthcare, Teradata - a division of NCR, Amdocs, MySQL AB, and others. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the web at www.goldengate.com.

Contact:
Robin Bulanti
Kulesa Public Relations/ for GoldenGate
robin@kulesapr.com
(650) 340-1986

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