Join Stephen Wynkoop, SSWUG Co-founder and Microsoft MVP, to learn how you can improve the performance, reliability and security of your .NET applications. Whether your .NET applications are built using C# or VB.NET, it is highly likely that they rely on a relational database such as SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 or Sybase.

Learn about the benefits of using ADO.NET providers that are 100% managed; the only option if you want to leverage the full power of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR provides numerous capabilities that help ensure that 100% managed code performs well, scales effectively and is highly reliable and secure.

This webinar will discuss how the DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET providers allow full leverage of the .NET Framework for applications that rely on SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and Sybase. This is critical since the ADO.NET providers that Oracle, IBM and Sybase are not 100% managed.

Learn how to break the ties of traditional business intelligence and business activity monitoring solutions by exposing real-time, flexible access to heterogeneous data sources - providing far more value to the business than the static, summary data that older tools typically provide.

Did you start developing your application using the ADO.NET providers supplied by your database vendor? Are you experiencing reliability or performance and scalability issues in your production environment?
Are you frustrated by the limitations and the cost involved with dealing with the native database clients?

If so, join us for this technical webinar that will explain the benefits of replacing your existing ADO.NET provider with DataDirect's Connect for ADO.NET. These benefits are based on the fact that the DataDirect solution is 100% managed, which means that your applications will run faster, be more scalable, reliable and secure. We'll address how you can cut your development and deployment costs.

This webinar will walk you through the steps necessary to convert your applications so that they can fully leverage the benefits of the Common Language Runtime. These benefits are tied to the fact that the DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET database provider is 100% managed.

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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.

Customers demand access to data regardless of where it resides. DataDirect Technologies has forged its reputation by helping define industry standards for data connectivity. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems.

But what if you need to expand your market to include access to data stored on mainframe systems? DataDirect has the answer with Shadow version 7, the industry’s only single, unified platform for mainframe integration.

Join us for this informative webinar where we explore the features and benefits of DataDirect’s Shadow version7, a new benchmark in mainframe data connectivity.

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Dr. Carlo Innocenti's "Retrieving, aggregating and transforming your MySQL data using XQuery and XML" web presentation, gives expert insight on XQuery and learn optimal ways to integrate and use your MySQL data with XML, Web services, and non-XML formats such as EDI.

Join Dipak Patel, Senior Director of Development for DataDirect OpenAcess SDK, as he shows you how to rapidly integrate specialized data sources into your application. You will learn:

• How OpenAccess SDK lets YOU develop a custom driver for any data source in a matter of weeks
• What type of data sources you can unlock using OpenAccess
• Steps required to implement a custom driver
• How OpenAccess was used to create an ODBC driver for salesforce.com