Xoom Corpus Generator has advantages over a trial Xoom installation for both potential customers
and Zany Ants alike.
Benefits to the customer
- Xoom doesn't need to be installed on the customer machine as the tool is standalone and
has only to be run the once.
- The tool doesn't require access to the customer's environment, and can be run
without any specialist knowledge.
- The tool doesn't require access to the Service Optimization database.
- The tool doesn't require access to (potentially sensitive) dynamic data
(transactional data).
- The tool allows us to create a demo of the capabilities of Xoom, tailored exactly to the
customer's needs.
Benefits to Zany Ants
- Xoom Corpus Generator allows us to pretend (for the purposes of working with Xoom) that we have access
to the customer's environment.
- The amount of data required is relatively small (once zipped, corpora are typically
measured in megabytes, as opposed the gigabytes required for a full database dump).
- We don't have to install the right version of Service Optimization, with all the correct
customisations.
