Avalon's proprietary tool Somerset® builds on existing Oracle high availability tools including Oracle Partitioning and Oracle Redefinition. Some of the features of Somerset are:

• Minimal performance degradation

• Faster than current methods and puts less load on the system

• Clean go/no-­‐go decision and cutover point

• Compatible with large packaged applications such as Siebel and E-­‐Business Suite

• Rebuilds tables and their associated indexes to different storage tiers

• Defragments and reclaims space within tablespaces

• Orders row data to improve application data access

• Actions performed one table at a time or as a table group

• Robust validation, status reporting, and error handling

• Archived data is one of the key outputs of the process, not an afterthought

• Zero application downtime