Solutions for Application Developers

If your responsibilities include developing new applications, ask yourself:

  • Is it important for you to deliver new applications on time and on budget?
  • Is uptime and performance important for your applications?
  • Do issues with your application's data connectivity and/or interoperability with other systems keep robbing you of time to focus on your assigned goals of developing core business applications, features, and capabilities?
  • Do you have applications or data that use proprietary APIs, making it difficult to take advantage of them from reporting, analysis, integration, and development tools?
  • How will you leverage mainframe data and logic when you aren't a mainframe programmer?

While often overlooked, interoperability and data connectivity issues can crop up like so many speed bumps, slowing your productivity to a crawl. This isn't surprising, given the number of platforms, interoperability standards, databases, and database versions found in any IT environment of appreciable size. Unsupported application versions and functionality, as well as incompatibility between driver, database version, and client library packages for data connectivity - any one or all of these combined can wreak havoc on your deadlines.

How Can DataDirect Help You?

Standardizing on DataDirect for your data connectivity and systems interoperability architecture dramatically reduces the cost and complexity associated with configuring and testing data connectivity and interoperability between systems. It can help you to:

  • Easily update code when the underlying data or application source is changed or upgraded, thanks to the common architecture shared by DataDirect's Connect line of components.
  • Eliminate the need to integrate and test drivers for every possible combination of database and platform version. One DataDirect driver supports all the current releases of a particular database (such as Oracle), and DataDirect components are fully backwards-compatible with previous releases of the database.
  • Bypass configuration and compatibility issues associated with client software using DataDirect's clientless architecture.
  • Make proprietary data and applications available to hundreds of reporting, analysis, integration, and development tools using the DataDirect OpenAccess SDK, a custom driver development kit that allows you to quickly build ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE DB drivers for specialized data stores.
  • Reduce time to market and code-intensive XML efforts in developing SOA applications; DataDirect can cut down to 1/20th the code a developer must write, on average. DataDirect XQuery also gets developers productive fast with XML tools for query development and testing.
  • Reuse mainframe assets in your modern web-based applications without having to learn mainframe standards or programming, with DataDirect's Shadow family of products.

Why Use DataDirect?

DataDirect products are built on open standards. This emphasis on interoperability ensures that DataDirect will adopt no proprietary extensions that can slow down development projects. All DataDirect middleware components undergo rigorous testing using our proprietary in-house testing suites as well as externally-developed suites.

Want to learn more about what DataDirect offers for application developers? Visit the following relevant pages on our website:

Data Connectivity

  • DataDirect Connect for JDBC - Get Type 4 JDBC connectivity to SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, and more with the SPECjAppServer/ECPerf performance and scalability leader. Our common architecture across all drivers enables database-independent application development, reducing development effort and allowing developers to complete projects far more quickly.
  • DataDirect Connect for ODBC - Whether you need ODBC connectivity for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix, Linux, Windows, UNIX, or any other database/platform combination, DataDirect Connect for ODBC delivers it. Gain the improved performance and simplified installment and administration of our unique wire protocol design that entirely eliminates the need for database client software and libraries.
  • DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET - Incorporate into your applications .NET connectivity to SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, or Sybase with the industry's only ADO.NET data provider having a 100% managed code architecture that eliminates the need for database clients, boosts performance, and delivers a flexible, secure connection.
  • DataDirect SequeLink - If you need access to three or more data stores, SequeLink is your best choice. SequeLink is a complete end-to-end middleware solution that provides a universal client for ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET connectivity to all databases that are accessible via an ODBC 2x or 3x driver.
  • DataDirect OpenAccess SDK - A custom driver development kit that allows you to quickly build ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and OLE DB drivers for specialized data stores. Data previously unavailable because of proprietary APIs or file formats instantly become accessible to hundreds of reporting, analysis, integration, and development tools. The data source can be anything such as files, relational stores, object stores, business objects, memory, applications, or Web services.

XML Data Integration

  • DataDirect XQuery - If you seek to implement Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches to data access, you'll find our powerful embeddable XQuery engine for driving XML-intensive applications indispensable. DataDirect XQuery gives enterprise-class systems high-performance access to Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, and Sybase (with MySQL soon to come), as well as XML documents (even multi-gigabytes) and EDI messages (X12 and EDIFACT), along with other formats such as tab delimited, comma separated value, dBase files, and many more. The easiest way to develop applications and/or reports when dealing with data sources of various types (XML, relational, and legacy), DataDirect XQuery gets developers productive fast with XML tools for query development and testing.
  • DataDirect Stylus Studio - Automate and accelerate the otherwise cumbersome XML development process with the industry's premier XML Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used by leading software developers world-wide. Providing powerful and varied XML editors, Stylus Studio supports XML and its related technologies: XSL, XSLT, XML Schema, DTD, SOAP, WSDL, SQL/XML, XML mapping, and XQuery.

Mainframe Integration

  • DataDirect Shadow - Implement non-invasive, simple, reliable, scalable, and secure enterprise-class integration between .NET or J2EE applications and z/OS mainframe environments using the recognized leader in mainframe integration technology. Shadow's single mainframe architecture acts as a mainframe services bus, providing comprehensive support for web services, real-time events, direct SQL data access, and web enablement, allowing for seamless integration with Service-Oriented Architectures and event-driven architectures.

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