{{notability|corp|date=October 2016}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}} {{Infobox website <!-- infobox source: http://www.hoovers.com/ebay/--ID__56307--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml --> | name = Sensage, Inc. | logo = SenSage Logo.png | company_type = Private | founder = Adam Sah | foundation = 2000 | location_city = Redwood City, California | key_people = Jim Pflaging, President and CEO | industry = Enterprise Security | website = http://www.sensage.com/ }}
'''Sensage''' Inc. is a privately held data warehouse software provider headquartered in Redwood City, California.<ref name="one">''BusinessWeek''. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090302103444/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=2673811 Private Company Listing]" retrieved August 20, 2009.</ref> Sensage serves enterprises who use the software to capture and store event data so that it can be consolidated, searched and analyzed to generate reports that detect fraud, analyze performance trends, and comply with government regulations.<ref name="two">Robert Lemos, CIO.com "[http://www.cio.com/article/491221/Another_Data_Center_Headache_Log_Data_Exploding Another Data Center Headache: Log Data Exploding]." April 29, 2009, retrieved September 2, 2009.</ref><ref name="three">Brian Prince, ''eWeek'' "[http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/SenSage-Focuses-on-Event-Data-to-Make-Mark-in-Data-Warehouse-Space/ Sensage Focuses on Event Data to Make Mark in Data Warehouse Space]." August 29, 2008, retrieved September 2, 2009.</ref>
According to The451 Group, Sensage generates more than 70% of its revenue through global and local partners, which include EMC, HP, Cerner and McAfee.<ref name="four">Matt Aslett, The451 Group. "[http://www.sensage.com/collaterals/editorial_coverage/2009/451-on-SenSage-EDW-April-2009.pdf Sensage Shows Progress in Data Warehousing Thanks to Partner Focus] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424033223/http://www.sensage.com/collaterals/editorial_coverage/2009/451-on-SenSage-EDW-April-2009.pdf |date=April 24, 2009 }}." April 8, 2009, retrieved September 1, 2009.</ref>
The company is backed by venture capital firms Sierra Ventures, Canaan Partners, Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, FTVentures and Sand Hill Capital.<ref name="five">FTV Capital Press Release, “[http://www.ftvcapital.com/press/20080610.html Sensage Raises $15 Million to Expand Event Data Warehouse Initiatives for the Enterprise] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222234631/http://www.ftvcapital.com/press/20080610.html |date=December 22, 2008 }}.” June 10, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2009</ref>
==Corporate history== Sensage Inc. was founded as Addamark Technologies Inc. in 2000. In October 2004, Addamark changed its name to Sensage and simultaneously announced version 3.0 of its flagship security information management product (SIM).<ref name="six">WebHostingInfo. “[https://archive.today/20130218162655/http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/addamark-technologies-changes-name-to-sensage_0504052900.htm Addamark Technologies Changes Name to Sensage].” October 18, 2004. Retrieved on August 20, 2009.</ref>
Sensage's financial backers include Sierra Ventures, Canaan Partners, Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners Inc., FTVentures and Sand Hill Capital.<ref>Bonanos, Paul. “[http://www.thedeal.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDStandardArticle&bn=NULL&c=TDDArticle&cid=1059058520262 Dealflow: July 29, 2003]”, The Deal, July 29, 2003, retrieved on September 22, 2008.</ref><ref>Carlsen, Clifford. “[http://www.sensage.com/English/Collaterals/Press_Releases/2005/20050418_TheDeal.pdf Sensage taps Mitsui for $10M] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827230209/http://www.sensage.com/English/Collaterals/Press_Releases/2005/20050418_TheDeal.pdf |date=August 27, 2008 }}”, The Deal, April 18, 2005, retrieved on September 22, 2008.</ref><ref>Dark Reading staff. “[http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=156107 Sensage Raises $15M to Expand]”, ''Dark Reading'', June 10, 2008, retrieved on September 22, 2008.</ref>
In October, 2012 Sensage was acquired by KEYW Corp. of Hanover, MD. On July 31, KEYW spun off a commercial products division, Hexis Cyber Solutions, Corp. Sensage's product relabeled as HawkEye AP (Analytics Platform) along with the Active Defense Grid product formerly known as Project G, now relabeled HawkEye G are the two primary products marketed by Hexis.<ref>KEYW Press Release. "[http://investors.keywcorp.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=781801]"</ref><ref>KEYW/451 Research. "[http://www.keywcorp.com/news/articles/keyw-uses-acquired-sensage-technology-to-form-hexis-cyber-solutions]"</ref>
==Technology== The company uses a columnar database architecture instead of the relational database architecture that is more common in the industry.<ref name="Brian">Brian Prince, “[http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/SenSage-Focuses-on-Event-Data-to-Make-Mark-in-Data-Warehouse-Space/ Sensage Focuses on Event Data to Make Mark in Data Warehouse Space].” ''eWeek'', August 29, 2008, retrieved on December 1, 2008.</ref>
Sensage holds U.S. patent #7,024,414 for parsing table data into columns of values, formatting each column into a data stream, and transferring each data stream to a storage device in a continuous strip of data.<ref name ="seven">By Peter Bochner, SearchSAP.com. “[http://searchsap.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid21_gci1356456,00.html?asrc=SS_CLA_299351&psrc=CLT_21 SAP co-founder: Hardware Will Change the Way SAP Develops Software].” May 13, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2009.</ref> In this architecture, the data is stored in columns instead of rows, which eliminates the need for indices when storing event data to increase data compression and retrieval speeds.<ref name="Brian" /> The event data warehouse software uses an extraction, transformation and loading tool to pull records into the data warehouse, where it is compressed and spread across server nodes. Data queries are distributed across data warehouse nodes as well.<ref name="Brian" />
Sensage provides support for SAP, Oracle (PeopleSoft and Siebel), Lawson, Cerner and other packaged application providers, and its technology supports precise analytics needed for use cases, such as fraud detection.<ref name="eight">US Patent & Trademark Office “[http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=%227%2C024%2C414%22&OS=%227,024,414%22&RS=%227,024,414%22 QUERY HANDLING IN DATABASES WITH REPLICATED DATA].” Retrieved December 2, 2008.</ref>
As its customers have shifted resources into cloud computing platforms, Sensage announced software that supports clustering and configuration in a VMware environment with hypervisor for using CPU cores, memory and other virtualized hardware resources.<ref name="nine">By Mark Nicolett and Kelly M. Kavanagh, Gartner. “[http://www.sensage.com/downloads/gartner.php Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922165608/http://www.sensage.com/downloads/gartner.php |date=September 22, 2009 }}.” May 29, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2009.</ref> The event data software includes support for storage virtualization, providing integration of SANs (storage area networks), NAS (network-attached storage) and CAS (content addressable storage) as online storage in a cloud-based or VMware environment.<ref name ="nine"/>
==Products & Services== Sensage's products are built on its event data warehouse software that consolidates a complex stream of business transactions and communications from any network source, analyzes and stores the data, and gives users an interface to search through events from a single console. In 2008, Sensage added new user interface features to its software to make it usable by non-technical staff.<ref>James Powell, “[http://esj.com/articles/2008/04/03/sensage-software-extracts-added-value-from-event-log-data.aspx?sc_lang=en Sensage Software Extracts Added Value from Event Log Data]”, ''Enterprise Systems'', April 3, 2008, retrieved on September 3, 2009</ref>
Through much of its history, Sensage customers have used its event data warehouse software to analyze system logs for security information and event management (SIEM) to collect, store, manage and analyze log records for security and forensic purposes.<ref name="one" /><ref name="two" /><ref name="three" /><ref name="four" /><ref name="ten">By Brian Prince, eWeek. “[http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/SenSage-Pushes-CloudBased-Event-Data-Warehouse-877317/ Sensage Pushes Cloud-Based Event Data Warehouse].”July 15, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2009</ref><ref name="eleven">By Eric Knorr, InfoWorld. “[http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/dealing-data-explosion-690 Dealing with the data explosion].” August 24, 2009. Retrieved August 25, 2009.</ref> In a survey, Sensage customers reported the need to retain logs and archive archiving records for a minimum of one year as a hedge against future audits.<ref name="twelve">By Tim Wilson, Dark Reading. “[http://www.darkreading.com/security/perimeter/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208803662 Enterprises Rolling on Logs].” Jan 28, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2009.</ref> Sensage customer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida mentions using Sensage tools for proactive monitoring that allow administrators to see and prevent security threats as they occur.<ref name="twentythree">By Chris Gay, Best’s Review. “[http://www.sensage.com/collaterals/editorial_coverage/2009/BestsReview-Button-Up-July-2009.pdf?page=1 Button Up: Regulatory Compliance and Data Security Go Hand-in-Glove for Today's Security Professionals] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116224010/http://www.sensage.com/collaterals/editorial_coverage/2009/BestsReview-Button-Up-July-2009.pdf?page=1 |date=November 16, 2010 }}.” July 2009. Retrieved September 21, 2009.</ref>
Sensage has OEM arrangements with HP (the HP Compliance Log Warehouse (CLW) appliance) and Cerner (healthcare applications).<ref name="eight" />HP uses Sensage software as the log management engine in the HP CLW, which is used by customers to collect and analyze log data to trigger compliance reporting for Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI and other federal record retention rules.<ref name="thirteen">By Neil Roiter, SearchSecurity.com. “[http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1310853,00.html PCI Forces Companies to Seek Log Management Help].” April 24, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2009</ref><ref name="fourteen">By Clint Boulton, InternetNews.com. “[http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3683876 HP Hopes For 'Secure Advantage'].” June 19, 2007. Retrieved August 21, 2009.</ref> Customers such as Choice Hotels have deployed the HP CLW to automate network analysis and compliance reporting to meet Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) regulations.<ref name="fifteen">CIO-Today.com. “[http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=102001S7N1ZU&page=1 Choice Hotels Selects HP Security Appliance].” March 18, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2009.</ref> More than 5,800 Choice brand hotels worldwide rely on the HP CLW to identify internal violations and external threats in real time.<ref name="fifteen" />
Sensage combines its event data warehouse software with EMC Centera long-term storage units to store, manage and analyze call detail records (CDRs) for telephone and wireless carriers and Internet service providers that must comply with the European Union Data Retention Directive.<ref name="two" /><ref name="four" /><ref name="sixteen">EMC Solution Gallery.“[https://archive.today/20111214115016/http://software.emc.com/microsites/application_portfolio/offerings/SenSage__CDR_Warehouse.jsp Sensage CDR Warehouse].” Retrieved August 25, 2009.</ref> The regulation was established to ensure service providers could assist law enforcement officials investigating bombings, leading to a requirement to keep records for up to three years.<ref name="four"/>
Telefónica O2 Ireland has deployed Sensage with EMC Centera storage hardware to meet the Data Retention Direction mandate, which requires storage and managing an average of 50 million CDRs per day.<ref name="seventeen">By Philip Howard, Bloor Research. “[http://www.sensage.com/collaterals/case_studies/SenSage-at-O2-Case-Study.pdf Sensage at O2 Ireland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116223701/http://www.sensage.com/collaterals/case_studies/SenSage-at-O2-Case-Study.pdf |date=November 16, 2010 }}.” April 2009.</ref>
==Further reading== * [http://www.sensage.com/ Sensage Website] * [http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9867563-7.html The silent explosion of log management, CNET] * [http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=144252 Enterprises Rolling on Logs, Dark Reading] * [http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1310853,00.html PCI forces companies to seek log management help, SearchSecurity] * [http://www.s-ox.com/dsp_getNewsDetails.cfm?CID=2220 Growing Dependence on Log Data for Compliance and Threat Response, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal] * [http://www.s-ox.com/dsp_getNewsDetails.cfm?CID=2208 Meeting The PCI DSS Requirements, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal]
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