Data Integration Suite Product Overview
Rapid Development and Superior Performance
Seamlessly connecting mission-critical systems and users to a variety of disparate data sources, the Progress DataDirect Data Integration Suite delivers scalable, reliable access to enterprise data. The Data Integration Suite is a comprehensive, yet affordable software solution that reduces data integration Total Cost of Ownership and enhances the overall bottom line.
At the core of the Data Integration Suite architecture is an advanced XML integrated development environment. Consisting of robust data visualization and mapping tools, Data Integration Suite graphically maps to virtually any enterprise data sources via standards-based interfaces, enabling developers to quickly build, test, debug, and deploy reliable, high-performance data integration components.
Data Integration Suite then powers the assembled components with an easily-embedded data query runtime engine that offers cross-platform flexibility, plugging into virtually any integration infrastructure. The runtime engine queries XML, relational data, SOAP messages, EDI, or a combination of data sources. It provides fast, reliable, and scalable support for all major relational databases, and it runs on any Java™ platform.
Data Integration Suite also delivers bi-directional, programmatic access to virtually any non-XML file including EDI, flat files, and other legacy formats, allowing developers to seamlessly stream non-XML data as XML for integration with any enterprise application.
Working in concert, Data Integrations Suite's integrated development environment and runtime engine provide enterprise organizations with a highly flexible, robust data integration product feature set that ensures rapid development, ease of deployment, and strong return on investment.
Integrated Development Environment
- Editing – includes a comprehensive XML editing toolset which builds and tests XML applications with a standards-based approach to querying, integrating and transforming data from various distributed data sources
- Mapping – accelerates and enhances the XML data integration development process through the use of powerful editors and drag-and-drop visual mapping facilities
- Debugging – steps through advanced components line-by-line, sets breakpoints, inspects variables, sets watches, observes the template stack, and more
- Profiling – analyzes processing performance, eliminates unwanted bottlenecks, improves efficiency, evaluates alternative processors, and more
- Robust Runtime Functionality – Deploys easily throughout the enterprise architecture; effectively queries all major relational databases as well as XML documents, EDI standards, SOAP messages, flat files, and virtually any other data format; rapidly converts and streams any non-XML data as XML to industry-leading XML processing components or to any enterprise application; and allows developers to quickly expose data queries as ready-to-deploy Web services
- Unrivaled Performance and Scalability – Data Integration Suite's SQL Adaptors were designed with a strong emphasis on performance and scalability. As a result, applications written with Data Integration Suite usually perform better than applications written using JDBC and an XML API
Designed to minimize data integration complexity, enhance developer productivity, and ensure superior data processing, Progress DataDirect Data Integration Suite offers a tightly integrated development and deployment environment.
- Delivers data integration development tools, database access utilities, and data converters in a single product with no need for additional solutions
- Deploys on any platform and accesses data from a wide spectrum of enterprise data sources, using any Web server or application server, or using no server at all
- Maintains a small software architecture footprint that does not tie organizations into a large enterprise software platform
- Offers flexible access to only needed data sources with the ability to unlock more data sources when required
- Delivers unrivaled data integration runtime functionality and performance as well as robust scalability for high volume transactional enterprise applications
- Ensures immediate return on investment with rapid development and deployment, reduced IT labor and software costs, and increased responsiveness to business needs
- Allows IT organizations to focus on core competencies and respond to ever-changing business needs without data integration distractions
- Stretches budget dollars to allow for future application development initiatives or necessary software and hardware purchases
