Octave Alto Data Management (ex-ERDAS APOLLO)
A management system for large geospatial data holdings: cataloging, storage and fast delivery of imagery, vector data and terrain models to thousands of users through OGC services.
Octave Alto Data Management (ex-ERDAS APOLLO) is a system for managing large holdings of geospatial and business data: cataloging, analyzing and delivering them to users from a centralized library, including from the cloud.
In 2026, ERDAS APOLLO was renamed Octave Alto Data Management as part of the Hexagon → Octave rebrand; functionality and contracts remain unchanged.
The product lets organizations organize and deliver large volumes of geospatial data — imagery, vector data, terrain models, virtual and digital objects — at high speed with a small hardware footprint. Its service-oriented architecture (SOA) allows extensive configuration to fit the organization’s processes.
Alto Data Management is the server layer of the Alto family: it feeds data to Octave Alto Enterprise and Octave GeoMedia, and serves processing results from Octave Imagine.
Softprom is an Octave partner: we help choose the right product tier for your data volume and number of users, and arrange a demonstration and a pilot.
Features
Alto Data Management Essentials
- High-speed access to large volumes of imagery with minimal hardware.
- Simultaneous delivery of data to thousands of users from a single server through standard OGC services, ECWP and JPIP streaming protocols and Esri Geoservices.
- 64-bit Linux and Windows.
Alto Data Management Advantage
- Automated management of distributed datasets in any format — raster, vector, LiDAR, scanned documents, doc, pdf, zip, video.
- Cataloging, reading and interpreting metadata, applying predefined styling, scheduled data updates.
- Web service provisioning, data protection and access control.
Alto Data Management Professional
- Self-service derivation of information by end users without learning new software.
- Server-side geospatial processing through the WPS service.
- Custom processing models published to the catalog — available to users to run on thin clients.
Typical Use Cases
- Corporate imagery and geodata catalog. One server instead of scattered archives.
- Data delivery to web applications and GIS. OGC services for Alto Enterprise, GeoMedia and third-party systems.
- Regular imagery updates. Automatic ingestion of new data on a schedule.
- Server-side geoprocessing. Heavy computation on the server, results to the users.