DataDirect's industry expertise:Data Connectivity- Member of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET Integration Program (VSIP), a worldwide technology partnership program.
- Sun Microsystems' J2EE Licensee and member of JDBC, Row Set, and XQJ JSR expert panels. Also, our JDBC product was specifically chosen by Sun to serve as the reference platform for JDBC within its J2EE architecture.
- Member of various standards bodies like ANSI and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to help evolve standards around XML and data.
- Shipped the industry's first commercial ODBC drivers.
- Shipped the industry's first commercial JDBC drivers.
- First vendor to ship a full suite of Type 4 JDBC drivers for all major databases and full JTA support across all databases.
- First vendor to be certified under Sun's J2EE Certification Test Suite (CTS), and the only vendor to offer a full suite of J2EE 1.4 certified drivers.
- First vendor to ship a complete set of ADO.NET data providers for the Microsoft .NET platform allowing 100% managed data access.
Mainframe Integration- Shadow was the first product to offer direct connectivity to mainframe data via ODBC.
- Shadow was the first mainframe XA/DTP product for data, programs and transactions via ODBC/JDBC.
- Shadow was first to market with static SQL support for direct ODBC/JDBC connectivity to mainframe data.
- DataDirect was the first to market with ability for customers to expose mainframe functionality as SOAP based web service
- DataDirect enabled the first customer to consume distributed web services from a mainframe application.
- Datadirect Shadow customers routinely run over 1 Billion transactions per day through Shadow to support mission critical initiatives.
- First to market with a mainframe Web services product.
- Introduced the first mainframe real-time business event management product.
- Shadow RTE was evaluated by Gartner Resarch as the technology leader in mainframe programmatic integration Magic Quadrant.
- Every zip code on every piece of mail scanned by the US Postal Service runs through Shadow technology.
- The largest DB2 installation in the world integrates with distibuted platforms through Shadow technology.
|
 |
XQuery Based on posted XQuery Test Suite results, DataDirect Technologies is the only vendor to provide the same level of XQuery compliancy across all data sources (XML, relational, legacy, etc.), providing software developers the highest degree of standards-based, reliable and stable XQuery performance in any environment. - DataDirect XQuery provides efficient, scalable XQuery against XML (including VERY large, multi-gigabyte XML) as well as non-XML sources – including relational databases, EDI and flat-file formats.
- DataDirect XQuery is easily embeddable - does not require any other product, platform or application server.
- DataDirect XQuery passes the XQuery Test Suite with 99%+ compliancy.
- DataDirect is the first vendor to post XQuery Test Suite results for a product offering highly optimized XQuery support for relational sources.
- Shipped the industry's first embeddable, database-independent XQuery component for processing and aggregating XML, relational and legacy data.
DataDirect is the software industry's choice for data connectivity software. Most of the largest software vendors in the world turn to DataDirect for embedded data connectivity technology including: - 8 of the top 10 largest software vendors in the world
- 9 of the top 10 application development and deployment software vendors
- 8 of the top 10 systems infrastructure software vendors
|
