Progress Software Corporation today announced it’s offering a beta program of the DataDirect® Cloud service. The new SaaS-based connection management service is a key step in the company’s mission to help organizations create, run and connect to the world’s best business applications. The cloud connectivity service enables simplified SQL access to a broad spectrum of cloud-based data sources through a single standards-based interface.
Cloud is reshaping the way organizations build and deploy software and enabling the next generation of ISVs and applications to be built in less time, at less cost, all the while increasing application scalability and resilience. With the acknowledged value of cloud, there’s been an explosion of new data sources in the cloud such as SaaS CRM, Social Network Feeds, and SaaS ERP. Organizations seeking to unlock the data in these sources need an easy way to connect to them. Point-to-point connectivity might be available through a proprietary web service, but creating unique access calls that conform to multiple APIs is unwieldy and complex. The multitude of different API’s as well as their various versions is making applications too complex to maintain.
Connectivity-as-a-Service provides standards-based SQL access to cloud data without requiring customized interfaces or new libraries to learn. It executes the SQL query against the appropriate cloud data source, managing all of the complexity, API’s, and versioning itself so that the application does not have to.
The DataDirect Cloud offering provides:
- A single ODBC and JDBC driver based on the DataDirect premium driver
technology that plugs into almost any 3rd party application
suite (i.e., Business Intelligence, Enterprise Service Bus, Business
Process Management Suites, Data Integration ETL, Java EE) - Real-time SQL access to a broad spectrum of data sources through a
connectivity management service that resides in the cloud - Web based query development tools that allow interaction with SaaS
data without any on-premise software required - Elastic scalability suitable for the most demanding data access needs
- Specifically for ISVs, the ability to distribute the DataDirect Cloud
OEM driver “in the box” and support a broad array of data sources that
will be updated and expanded regularly without having to redeploy to
on premise installations.
