Success story
Vanderbilt Industries
Industry• Manufacturing/securitySolution• OpenText™ Gupta SQLBase

Results
Integrates easily into thedevelopment system
Offers a simple licensing
and deployment model
Automates maintenancefor worry-free support
Provides value to businesses
and customers via a low TCO

Vanderbilt Industries delivers value toits customers with a high-performancedatabase solution
International security system provider relies on OpenText Gupta SQLBase
to power one of its leading security solutions“Over the last 20 years, the maintenance and stability ofthe OpenText Gupta SQLBase product have been very
good. We really haven’t experienced any issues, whichis always good for me in my role as the product owner.”
Andreas Di Meo

Product management/product development
Vanderbilt Industries

Vanderbilt Industries delivers value to its customers with a high-performance database solution

Operating in 95 countries, Vanderbilt Industries is a global providerof security systems. The company designs, manufactures anddistributes systems that safeguard organizations of all sizes acrossmultiple industries, with product lines encompassing access control,
intrusion detection and video management.
Vanderbilt prides itself on its core values of agility, adaptability and dependability in developing solutions that meets its customers’ unique securitychallenges. Thousands of customers rely on one such product, the Omnis
System, for enterprise-class access control and intrusion detection.
For more than two decades, Vanderbilt has employed OpenText™ Gupta
SQLBase to help deliver this powerful, market-leading security solution.
“At that time, access control and intrusion systems were standalone
systems where you used a keypad on the wall,” said Andreas Di Meo,
product owner for Omnis. “However, we were doing something
where you could configure and monitor it using your PC, and wewere looking for a solution that could be used as an embedded
database engine.”
Gupta SQLBase fit the bill. It is a high-performance, automated and embedded database that allows organizations to manage data closer to thecustomer, where capturing and organizing information is critical. Gupta
SQLBase provides a maintenance-free architecture with a small footprint, easy installation and high scalability.
“Omnis is server-based and accessed by the PC client. Our hardware
connects to the server and that forms the access and intrusion
system. We use OpenText Gupta SQLBase as the database engine
for our server. It is really an embedded part of our software,”noted Di Meo.

“Omnis allows users to control hundreds or even thousands of
security access points across the network from a single location toapproximately 4,500 customers. It is a highly scalable system, andwe have quite a few installations that are thousands of doors andaccess points or more,” Di Meo added.
The OpenText database has proven to be a reliable and worry-freesolution for Vanderbilt. Requiring little support, the result is a low total
cost of ownership (TCO) solution that has returned value to the businessand its customers. For example, Gupta SQLBase offers easy licensing
and deployment with an embedded deployment pack (EDP) optionthat contains a configuration tool to keep a running count of deployedlicenses. EDP allows customers to take the database components fromus and include that in their installers of the solution.
Vanderbilt has also benefited from the solution’s automated installation,
configuration and maintenance features, which allow it to be installed
and maintained with a just few mouse clicks.
“Over the last 20 years, the maintenance and stability of theOpenText Gupta SQLBase product has been very good. We reallyhaven’t experienced any issues, which is always good for me in myrole as the product owner,” said Di Meo. “My experience with using
other database engines is that I probably would have had issues
and a lot more troubleshooting than I have today.”
Gupta SQLBase’s easy integration with Omnis has provided additional
benefits with an architecture that enables users to focus on the business application itself, rather than the underlying database technology.

“I would say ourexperience with theOpenText solution has
been very positive. No
one has ever complained
about our choice ofdatabase engine. I don’t
see us changing tosomething else. We willcontinue to use OpenText
Gupta SQLBase for years
to come—it has always
served us well.”Andreas Di Meo

Product management/productdevelopment
Vanderbilt Industries

Vanderbilt Industries delivers value to its customers with a high-performance database solution“We appreciate that OpenText Gupta SQLBase is not something thatan end customer can access,” Di Meo explained. “That is really beneficial compared to other experiences we have had with other products where customers can actually access the database and corrupt
things. It’s also been our experience that the product doesn’t cause
any conflicts with other applications installed on the same server,which might be the case if we were to use another product.”Gupta SQLBase continues to deliver simplicity, scalability and dependability to Vanderbilt’s Omnis solution and its customers.

Looking to the future, Vanderbilt sees the security industry slowly
moving toward mobile and cloud solutions. Di Meo observed, “It is notthat many years ago that people used magnetic stripe cards to enter
office buildings. Now, the industry is moving in the direction ofmobile credentials and cloud solutions rather than local,
on-premises installations.”
As Gupta SQLBase integrates with cloud solutions, Di Meo predicted,“The next step will be to do this in the cloud.”

Di Meo commented, “I would say our experience with the OpenText
solution has been very positive. No one has ever complained about
our choice of database engine. I don’t see us changing to somethingelse. We will continue to use OpenText Gupta SQLBase for years tocome—it has always served us well.”

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