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The Efficient, Agile Way to Access Cloud Data

Enterprise use of cloud computing services and cloud data storage is growing rapidly. The growth is driven by the powerful attractions of the cloud service delivery model, including frictionless scalability and pay-for-use pricing. At the same time, the increased utilization of cloud based applications and cloud data presents challenges to enterprises in terms of integration and interoperability.

In many enterprise environments, multiple applications need to interface with multiple cloud data sources, each with its own proprietary API. Further complicating matters, enterprise applications that interface with cloud data often must also access on-premise databases. Enterprise data infrastructures that were already heterogeneous have grown even more variegated with the advent of cloud data.

Progress DataDirect: Enabling Standards-Based Access to Cloud Data

Progress DataDirect makes cloud connectivity simpler and more efficient by extending our industry-leading suite of ODBC and JDBC drivers to include connectivity to major cloud data sources. Our new Connect XE drivers deliver seamless ODBC or JDBC access to Salesforce cloud services as well as Force.com and Database.com.

By using DataDirect Connect XE ODBC and JDBC middleware, you can write your applications to interface with open industry standards rather than proprietary database cloud APIs. In this way your applications can inter-operate across multiple cloud data providers as well as on-premise database systems. By using DataDirect’s proven, standards-based connectivity solutions, you also save on development and testing time compared to developing against proprietary interfaces.

The Superior Solution for Cloud Data Connectivity

With cloud data access solutions from Progress DataDirect, you get more than the broad benefits of industry standard ODBC and JDBC connectivity. You also get all the advantages that make DataDirect the clear leader in the data connectivity market, including:

• Industry-best SQL performance for reads and writes, enabling smaller latencies and bigger throughput between your enterprise applications and cloud data sources.
• Built-in security safeguards like SSL data encryption, to help ensure cloud data security.
• Unequalled reliability, proven in thousands of demanding production environments worldwide and backed by 24x7 technical support.
• The most comprehensive suite of drivers on the market, with ODBC and JDBC drivers for every major platform and every major database.

With unmatched performance, scalability, and reliability, Progress DataDirect drivers offer substantial benefits not only to cloud service users seeking a better way to access cloud data, but also to cloud service providers looking to improve performance and agility within their datacenters.

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