Solutions for IT Operations

If your responsibilities include deployment and configuration of software, ask yourself:

  • Is too much of your time spent on issues involving the distribution and configuration of software to numerous client workstations and servers?
  • Can centralized operation and greater manageability save you time and effort?
  • Do you have applications or data that use proprietary APIs, making it difficult to take advantage of them from reporting, analysis, integration, and development tools?
  • Does your organization's approach to handling XML involve updating a variety of proprietary extensions, possibly ones your staff doesn't even know about?

The distribution of software to numerous — sometimes thousands — of client workstations in a large organization can consume far too much of your time. Even where the process has been well automated, trouble inevitably rears its head somewhere. Incompatibility issues, problems with configuration — such problems arising on any one computer can claim too much of your time. Multiply that by numerous computers, and troubleshooting can get to seem like a full-time job in itself.

When it comes to data connectivity, XML applications, and mainframe integration, this doesn't have to be the case. With DataDirect, it isn't.

Open Standards, Clientless Architecture, Database Independence

Standardizing on DataDirect for your data connectivity and systems interoperability architecture dramatically reduces the cost and complexity associated with configuring and testing data connectivity and interoperability between systems. Here's why:

  • The clientless wire protocol architecture of DataDirect's Connect line of products entirely eliminates the need for database client software, which also eliminates associated configuration and compatibility issues.
  • For applications and data that use proprietary APIs, DataDirect's OpenAccess SDK provides a custom driver development kit so you can quickly create custom ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE DB drivers for these specialized data stores.
  • For organizations that include mainframe data connectivity, our Shadow line of products provides a single management console that eliminates the need to manage a host of point solutions.
  • For applications that deal with XML and various data sources (XML, relational, legacy), DataDirect XQuery offers a flexible solution because it doesn't require any servers or other software. And because DataDirect XQuery resides in the middle tier, along with the application, changes to XQueries and the application are insulated from changes to the database or underlying software.

Why Use DataDirect?

DataDirect products are built on open standards. Additionally, all DataDirect middleware components undergo rigorous testing using our proprietary in-house testing suites as well as externally-developed suites.

Want to learn more about what DataDirect offers for IT operations? Visit the following relevant pages on our website:

Data Connectivity

  • DataDirect Connect for JDBC — Get Type 4 JDBC connectivity to SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, and more with the SPECjAppServer/ECPerf performance and scalability leader. Our common architecture across all drivers enables database-independent connectivity.
  • DataDirect Connect for ODBC — Whether you need ODBC connectivity for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix, Linux, Windows, UNIX, or any other database/platform combination, DataDirect Connect for ODBC delivers it. Gain the improved performance and simplified installment and administration of our unique wire protocol design that entirely eliminates the need for database client software and libraries.
  • DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET — Provision .NET connectivity to SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, or Sybase with the industry's only ADO.NET data provider having a 100% managed code architecture that eliminates the need for database clients, boosts performance, and delivers a flexible, secure connection.
  • DataDirect OpenAccess SDK — A custom driver development kit that allows you to quickly build ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and OLE DB drivers for specialized data stores. Data previously unavailable because of proprietary APIs or file formats instantly become accessible to hundreds of reporting, analysis, integration, and development tools. The data source can be anything such as files, relational stores, object stores, business objects, memory, applications, or Web services.
  • DataDirect SequeLink — If you need to provide access to three or more data stores, SequeLink is your best choice. SequeLink is a complete end-to-end middleware solution that delivers a universal client for ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET connectivity to all databases that are accessible via an ODBC 2x or 3x driver.

XML Data Integration

Mainframe Integration

  • DataDirect Shadow — Implement non-invasive, simple, reliable, scalable, and secure enterprise-class integration between .NET or J2EE applications and z/OS mainframe environments using the recognized leader in mainframe integration technology. Shadow's single mainframe architecture acts as a mainframe services bus, providing comprehensive support for web services, real-time events, direct SQL data access, and web enablement, allowing for seamless integration with Service-Oriented Architectures and event-driven architectures.

To learn more about how DataDirect addresses specific needs, see the following:

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