BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software
provider that enables enterprises to be operationally
responsive, made available today its platinum ODBC drivers, Progress®
DataDirect Connect®for ODBC 7.0. The standards-based,
fully interoperable DataDirect
Connect for ODBC 7.0 driver allows developers
to architect once and deploy anywhere. With the fastest, most secure and
reliable database connectivity solution on the market, this driver
significantly increases throughput and application efficiency and
delivers platinum-level features to developers.
John
Goodson, senior vice president of products at Progress Software, and
a co-founder of the ODBC standard said: "When our technology
collaboration created ODBC in 1992, few of us could have realized how
integral the API would be for today's enterprise. Twenty years later,
developers still leverage ODBC's independent, maximum interoperability
to tackle critical business challenges, including big data, cloud
computing and mobile computing. As they have for the past two decades,
Progress DataDirect Connect for ODBC drivers provide the crucial
interface between application and database, giving enterprises secure,
reliable business-level visibility and real-time access to information
across disparate systems."
The Progress DataDirect Connect for ODBC 7.0 driver allows application
developers to reliably exchange data between Cloud data and disparate
data sources. Using ODBC, which is celebrating its 20th
anniversary in the marketplace this year, application developers can
develop, compile, and ship applications without targeting specific
database management systems or using embedded SQL, thereby eliminating
the need to recompile the application for each new environment.
DataDirect Connect for ODBC 7.0 drivers commemorate the 20th
anniversary of ODBC with platinum features including:
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Extended Database Support — Full support for Salesforce
CRM and Database.com cloud databases, Sybase IQ, and Progress
OpenEdge® application development platform.
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Expanded Bulk Load Support — Increased performance and
flexibility of Progress DataDirect Bulk Load, including enhanced
streaming in ODBC. Faster bulk operation performance can be applied
across an even wider range of scenarios than ever before.
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Enhanced Enterprise-Quality Driver Logging — Complete runtime
pictures of driver/database interactions through fully tuneable
connection options gives developers the ability to resolve technical
issues quickly and minimize production impact of troubleshooting.
Memory buffers capture information rather than writing straight to
disk, minimizing the impact to the performance of the runtime
environment and translating to faster resolution times for technical
issues and more uptime in production.
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Increased Breadth of Support — Progress continues to be a
leader in both the breadth and depth coverage of databases, database
features, and application platforms. DataDirect Connect for ODBC 7.0
drivers expand this coverage even further, delivering enterprise
quality ODBC access to even more application configurations than
before.
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Outstanding Performance — Progress DataDirect Connect drivers
outperform competitive drivers in throughput, CPU efficiency, and
memory footprint; resulting in faster response times, more scalable
applications and less hardware needed to support application
deployment.
The Arkansas Department of Education, recognized for its leadership of
educational data and technology, has been using the DataDirect Connect for
ODBC drivers for its Statewide Information System reporting
application, which maintains educational data for approximately 265
school districts. Cody Decker, director of information systems,
commented: "We use DataDirect Connect drivers for critical applications
and have moved data from transactional databases to a longitudinal data
warehouse. In implementing DataDirect Connect drivers, we have increased
the performance of our nightly warehouse loads by approximately 20
percent. The reliability, security and performance DataDirect Connect
drivers have provided are integral to our innovation."
Progress Software is the only comprehensive provider of software for
connecting the world's most critical business applications to data and
services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards.
Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect®
products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of
data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and
ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software
vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on Progress Software to
simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to
reduce the complexity of mainframe integration.
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global enterprise
software company that enables businesses to be operationally responsive
to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur — to
capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce
risk. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class
enterprise software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time
response, open integration, data access and integration, and application
development and deployment — all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud
deployments. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational
responsiveness while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of
ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com
or +1-781-280-4000.
Progress, DataDirect and DataDirect Connect are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries
or affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Any other marks contained
herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Progress Software
Colleen Sheehan, +1 781-280-4326
csheehanatprogress.com
Twitter:
@DataDirect_News
or
LEWIS
PR
Kim Karelis, +1 617-226-8844
progresssoftware@lewispr.com
Source: Progress Software Corporation
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