OpenConnect Introduces soaConnect-SQL for Optimal Mainframe-to-Web Data Access; CONNX's Industry-Leading Integration Solution Bundled with OpenConnect's soaConnect Product Suite.DALLAS -- OpenConnect Systems, Inc., delivering technology solutions that turn mainframe assets into business value, today introduced soaConnect-SQL, its newest product to provide the best solution for executing a mainframe-to-Web migration strategy. In partnership with CONNX Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise information integration solutions, OpenConnect's soaConnect-SQL enables the creation of secure, reusable enterprise wide data services that draw from multiple disparate data sources. Unlike other solutions, soaConnect-SQL allows for a single data service to connect to relational, hierarchical and flat data sources simultaneously to join, query or update the master data. Following its proven best-of-breed product and partnership strategy, OpenConnect is committed to providing its customers with the best solutions to help them successfully build and execute strategic SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) initiatives. This flexibility ensures that OpenConnect can configure an optimal solution based on each customer's existing IT architecture to enable a secure, maintainable, high-performance SOA service. "OpenConnect starts by helping IT executives discover the real business processes that drive their business operations, giving them the ability to configure the most effective solutions for their environment," said Edward Peters, OpenConnect's chief executive officer. "No company should 'force fit' their requirements into a single vendor's solution when their situation requires a better answer. That's why at OpenConnect, we are aggressively seeking out and partnering with best-of-breed individual technology providers." CONNX Solutions is a leading provider of data access software that allows users to directly access and manage vital enterprise data. OpenConnect helps complex organizations comprehend, configure and securely connect to mainframe applications and data. Bringing the technology of each company together into soaConnect-SQL provides a solution for data services spanning all enterprise data sources. The result is that all corporate data sources appear as a single, federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. , standard SQL addressable database, configurable into a SOA data service. soaConnect-SQL has a distributed SQL engine, where the work of processing queries is distributed optimally between the application servers and the host data server. "Mainframes were the first computing platform of corporate information technology and continue to be a crucial platform for data and applications," said Douglas D. Wright, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CONNX. "Our technology combined with OpenConnect's allows users to further tap into the mainframe to leverage enterprise data in new SOA business services." About CONNX Solutions CONNX provides businesses Enterprise Information Integration via secure read/write real-time access to all enterprise data, from any platform. The simplicity of the means of access to the data contributes to a streamlining of resources and costs, and improvements in security. All data is then accessible using standard ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. SQL and any standards-based application. CONNX offers Change Data Capture capabilities through its unique CONNX Data Replication and Synchronization tool, with which users can perform scheduled, on-demand, or full updates and reloads of their data. CONNX supports IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ; Adabas (currently OS/390, z/OS, VSE See DOS/VSE. VSE - Virtual Storage Extended , Unix, and Windows platforms); IDMS See CA-IDMS and IDMSX. 1. (language, database) IDMS - A pictorial query language, an extension of Sequel2. ["A Management System for an Integrated Database of Pictures and Alphanumeric Data", G.Y. Tang, Computer Graphics Image Processing 16:270-286 (1981)]. (on all platforms); Datacom (on all platforms); Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. (on all platforms); Sybase (on all platforms); Informix (on all platforms); C-ISAM, DISAM DISAM Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management DISAM Direct Indexed Sequential Access Method , and Micro Focus (on Linux, AIX, Sun, Solaris, and SCO operating systems); IBM VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method (on z/OS, OS/390, MVS, and VSE); IBM DB2 (on all platforms); Oracle (on all platforms); RMS, Rdb, and Codasyl DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. (on OpenVMS and VMS platforms); PostGreSQL (on all platforms); Dataflex; POWERflex; and any OLE DB, ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. , or .NET, or JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database data source. For more information, visit www.connx.com. About OpenConnect OpenConnect is the premier supplier of technology solutions that turn mainframe assets into business value. With a rich history of innovations in both mainframe and Web technologies, OpenConnect helps the world's largest and most complex organizations comprehend, configure and securely connect to their mainframe applications and data through Web-based architectures. OpenConnect's solutions save companies time and money, improve return on legacy technology investments and minimize the risk of expansion into the online realm. OpenConnect's products are distributed in more than 60 countries and used by more than 60 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information on OpenConnect, visit www.oc.com. |
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