Scalability

Enable Your Business on a Global Scale

Growing Pains

Industry trends are pushing many Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environments beyond their scalability limits.

A Scalable Solution

Elite Technology provides a new level of PLM platform scalability for enterprises with global supply chains and a significant number of PLM users.

Elite Technology architectural design enables scale-out on the file system and Web servers with scale-up on the database by moving non-transactional data to the scale-out servers. This allows for the handling of very large levels of throughput by using frequent, short database transactions.

Scalable by Design

The underlying model-based service oriented architecture (model-based SOA) utilizes a dynamic schema with loosely coupled federated web services designed for scalability, flexibility, and extensibility.

To ensure optimum scalability, Elite Technology employs a scale-out and scale-up approach, where:

• Application services are hosted on scale-out Web servers
• File containers (CAD models & drawings, documents, and other files) are stored in scale-out Vault servers with replication
• The Elite Technology database is used to host metadata which is ideal for storage in a relational database server and leads to excellent scale-up capabilities