As the data and information used by businesses grow exponentially, IT organizations face a daunting challenge. What is the quickest and most efficient way to move, extract, backup, archive, and access mountains of critical information paramount to the success of the business?

If your business has mountains of data that need to move into and out of Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, or Sybase, you may be stuck with an underperforming approach and don’t even know it. In this webinar, we will:

• Describe and illustrate the performance bottlenecks, technical pitfalls, and functional limitations of standard approaches
• Demonstrate the best approach for moving large amounts of data as fast as possible: from an external file into a database and from one database system into another

Don't miss this important webinar presented by Jesse Davis, DataDirect Sr. Program Manager. Register today!

Maximizing Performance for:

• Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, and more
• Virtualized Environments
• ODBC-Java Transitions

As you consider data access from different programming frameworks and languages, you need to consider many performance factors. Questions like, "Will the frameworks behave in a similar fashion?" and "Will we have the resources and knowledge to get the work done in an acceptable timeframe?" may come to mind.

These are valid questions, and we have the answers!

Join us for an overview of data access in different environments and learn how you can avoid some of the common pitfalls before you start your next project.

In this webinar you will learn:

• Best practices for designing high performing data access to any database including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, and more
• Common pitfalls when building applications for virtualized environments
• Architectural considerations for migrating ODBC applications to Java

You require 99.999% uptime from the entire application stack -- at the application, middleware and data layer levels.

In this webinar, we explore the challenges of designing applications and complex systems for high availability.

• Learn how to increase the uptime of applications by having smarter data access components while controlling costs.
• Enhance any clustering or replication solutions within your application architecture.
• Hear real-world examples of customers who have applied DataDirect’s technology to solve complex problems.

In just two years time, Web services have gone from early trials to an industry standard that is rapidly transforming the mainframe into a new source of business value. Pure business logic, screen-based applications and data can be service enabled for re-use in Java or .NET applications to immediately accelerate project ROI or serve as a foundation for an expanded Service–Oriented Architecture. What impact will Web Services and SOA have other major infrastructure investments, for example WebSphere MQ? Tune–in to this special Shadow Tech Talk webinar exploring the latest Web services technologies. Unlock the value of your mainframe CICS transactions and VSAM data - Exploit the power of your MQ infrastructure through mainframe Web Services.

Business and IT leaders have never had more compelling reasons to work together than in facing today’s economic challenges. Both are confronted with severe budget constraints while simultaneously being challenged to rapidly integrate disparate entities and technologies in order to meet the demands of a new reality.

While many IT managers chase cost-cutting alone, leaders find ways to increase value at the intersection of IT and business, enabling efficient transformation through time-tested infrastructure technology including the mainframe. Technology leaders today face the real complexity of delivering value to new business architectures that do not natively align with IT architectures of the past - and do so with significantly lower TCO.

In this webcast we address the following key questions:

• What do business leaders need to understand about these concepts in aligning cost and performance expectations for the technologies used in their business?
• Which concepts are key to specific business value and which are more about broader IT performance?
• When should business leaders support new IT spending and when should they expect IT to leverage existing resources for new value?
• How can IT professionals find the efficiencies in order to support new mainframe related projects?

This webinar demonstrates how DataDirect’s Data Integration Suite can help automate mission-critical EDI transactional processing for a variety of commercial industries. Data Integration Suite provides out of the box support for all IATA PADIS, IATA Cargo-IMP, IATA Cargo-FACT, and X12 EDI transactions, including error identification and handling, and custom mapping.

The webinar covers:

• EDI industry challenges
• Data Integration Suite introduction
• Data Integration Suite demonstration

1. Converting IATA Cargo-IMP transactions into ready-to-use XML

2. Graphical integration mapping across multiple EDI standards and heterogeneous data sources

3. EDI message validation and error handing

4. Support for mapping custom transactions

• Customer examples
• IT cost benefits of streamlined XML conversion and robust data integration
• Business benefits of faster, more responsive IT operations

Organizations around the world increasingly need to integrate on-premise enterprise applications and data with cloud based applications and Web Services.

While most SaaS solutions offer an application specific web service interface, they do not provide standards-based connectivity necessary to integrate with existing ODBC, JDBC or ADO.NET based applications and data. This makes it difficult to use existing reporting and business intelligence tools and very costly to integrate SaaS data with on-premise applications and data.

Join Dipak Patel, Senior Program Manager from DataDirect Technologies, to learn how to integrate and analyze cloud based SaaS applications via standards based data connectivity APIs such as ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET.

During this webinar you will learn how to:

• Integrate SaaS data as part of your business intelligence and analytics processes.
• Perform standard SQL queries against any SaaS application . . . See how this has been implemented for Salesforce.com.
• Integrate SaaS data with your ETL & Data Warehouse strategy.