progress software – datadirect connect paul griffin product marketing manager january 20, 2012
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Progress Software – DataDirect Connect
Paul Griffin
Product Marketing Manager
January 20, 2012
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Agenda
Company background
Product Overview
Product Features
Customer Support
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DataDirect’s Corporate History
Formally known as• TechGnosis (1987)• Pioneer (1988)• Q+E (1993)• INTERSOLV (1994)• MERANT (1999)
DataDirect business unit spun off from MERANT to form privately-held, independent software vendor, called DataDirect Technologies. (2001)
Acquired by Progress Software, Inc. in 2003
Privately-held OpenAccess Software acquired in 2006 – allows ODBC and JDBC access to unique & proprietary data sources through SDK
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Critical Applications Reply on Progress DataDirect
Thousands of Corporate IT departments rely on DataDirect for their critical applications
• 92 of the Fortune 100
• 8 of 10 top world banks
• Worldwide customer base in all industries
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Cross-Industry Blue Chip Customers
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Corporate Overview
Over 300 software vendors embed DataDirect technology
• Over 60% of top 50 software vendors
• 8 of top 10 packaged software vendors
• 9 of top 10 application development and deployment vendors
• 8 of top 10 system infrastructure vendors
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Business Applications
Leading Provider to the Software Industry
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Any application, Any platform, Any database
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Product Overview – Connect
Wire-protocol connectivity to all major databases• No client libraries means better performance and easier
deployment
Standards-based connectivity to all major databases• Support for multiple databases, and multiple versions of
each database - with only one set of application code to develop and maintain
Flexible deployment – all platforms
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Product Overview – Sequelink/Open Access
Flexible deployment – all platforms, all API’s: OLE DB, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, 32-bit and 64-bit
Sequelink-specific• Can connect to any database from any platform, as long as
the database has an ODBC or JDBC driver
Open Access-specific• Connectivity to proprietary data sources• Standards-based connectivity to web services
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Product Overview – Data Integration Suite (DIS)
XML Converters• Convert EDI to XML
Stylus Studio• Easy to use IDE
XQuery• Expose XML as a web service• Query relational and XML data• Insert XML data into relational databases
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Product Features - Performance
Stronger throughput
More efficient use of memory and CPU cycles
Performance tuning options allow developers to optimize performance based on what the application is doing
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Codeless Configuration/Rapid Application Modernization
• Bulk Load– Stream data from cloud or relational data sources to other data
sources– Allows for faster data integration and data migration to multiple
data sources
• Application Failover
• Security– Kerberos– SSL
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Product Features – Cloud Deployments Save Money
ServersServers w/DataDirect Cost
Cost w/ DataDirect Savings
20 8 $504,576 $414,310 $90,265
50 20 $1,261,440 $1,035,776 $225,664
100 39 $2,522,880 $2,019,763 $503,117
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World Class Customer Support
Award winning technical support:
• 24x7x365
• Live telephone support, extensive web resources
• Co-located with development and QA teams in Europe, USA & Asia
• NorthFace Award 10 consecutive years
• Member of TSANET
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Summary
Full featured, high-perfomance data access components from any platform/application, to any data source
Vendor viability, expertise, and award-winning customer support
Customer Case Studies: <link>
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Contact Information
Paul Griffin
• Phone: (919) 461-4314
• Email: [email protected]
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