DataDirect Technologies Extends Support for SOA with Service Data Objects (SDO) Standard

Progress Software Acquires Data Integration Leader Xcalia; Combination with Operating Company DataDirect Technologies Strengthens Support for Standards-Based Data Access

DataDirect Technologies has outlined its plans to support the rapidly emerging Service Data Objects (SDO) standard within its family of data connectivity and mainframe integration products. The SDO standard, developed by a diverse group of leading technology vendors participating in the OASIS SDO working group is designed to simplify and unify the way applications use data within a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

DataDirect's parent company, Progress software announced its acquisition of Xcalia, a leader in the development and adoption of the SDO standard and data integration technologies. Xcalia will become part of DataDirect Technologies.

SDO is a unique data access standard in that it offers applications and services participating in an SOA to access any kind of data, including relational, XML, or application-specific data objects, from various kinds of data sources in a consistent, standards-based way via synchronous or asynchronous service calls. This is a key requirement to reap the agility and reusability benefits of SOA. Too often, data access is an overlooked aspect of building an SOA until the number of applications and services accessing the data become too difficult to manage using tightly coupled connections. SDO is designed to address these problems.

As a leading independent provider of standards-based data access technologies, including ODBC and JDBC drivers, ADO.NET data providers and service-based mainframe connectivity, DataDirect Technologies' support for data access via SDO standards is a logical extension of the company's product offerings and exciting news for architects and developers. The company will announce new products later in the year that combine Xcalia's technologies with DataDirect's industry leading products.

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