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THE UNTOLD
STORY OF DATA
ACCELERATING YOUR BUSINESS
WITH HIGH-PERFORMANCE
DATA CONNECTIVITY

3 INTRODUCTION: ACCELERATE YOUR BUSINESS
WITH HIGH-PERFORMANCE DATA CONNECTIVITY
4 CONNECTING YOUR CUSTOMERS’ DATA —
ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ON ANY DEVICE
8 DRIVING HIGH PERFORMANCE WITH SUPERIOR
ON-PREMISE, HYBRID OR CLOUD DATA ACCESS
9 OUTPERFORMING THE COMPETITION WITH OUR
CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS
14 MAKING DATA WORK FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS
18 SUMMARY: TAKING YOUR CUSTOMERS FROM
GOOD TO GREAT
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION:
ACCELERATE YOUR
BUSINESS WITH
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
DATA CONNECTIVITY
In a matter of decades, technology has evolved
from the mainframe to today’s hyper-connected
world with its continuous avalanche of data—
transforming not only the way we live, but how we
do business. As an independent software company
building advanced business applications for
companies across a wide range of industries, you
must be able to meet the real-time expectations
in this new world. Empower your customers to tap
into the tremendous opportunities available in
the convergence of big data, relational and cloud
sources. And provide ongoing time to value for your
customer organizations through the rapid delivery
of powerful, reliable and simple applications.
Creating this kind of customer loyalty requires
superior data connectivity and integration
technology. The bad news is not all data
connectivity is created equal — what appears to
be “free” can actually be very costly over the long
term. The good news is you can choose to go with
a trusted connectivity partner. Consider a single
provider who enables you to deploy applications
quickly to more data sources. Lets you deliver
elegant, easy-to-maintain applications. And helps
immediately speed your data access by up to
500%—all while giving you the comprehensive
data source and platform coverage you need.
Powering your customers’ businesses with up to 500% faster data connectivity
The challenge is to help your
customers effectively manage—
and leverage—the volume,
variety and velocity of data.

This trifecta of comprehensive data source and
platform coverage from a single vendor brings
added value to your customers as you, in turn,
are able to deploy new applications to more data
sources for faster speed to revenue. Reducing the
cost, risk and complexity of supporting traditional,
modern and hybrid data sources combined with
speedy deployment enables your customers to
expand into new markets with powerful new
solutions and applications with fast time to value.
CONNECTING YOUR
CUSTOMERS’ DATA —
ANYWHERE, ANYTIME,
ON ANY DEVICE
Data matters now more than ever to you and your
customers.
Wherever your customers have data—whether
it’s in the cloud, on-premise behind a firewall, or
both—our patented technology lets you deliver
easy, real-time integration with enterprise, cloud-
based or mobile applications to virtually any data
source, using any API, from any device on any
platform.
This unparalleled breadth and depth of
connectivity gives you the ability to provide your
customers with any combination of:
»» On-premise solutions that quickly and easily
connect to any data source
»» SaaS-based solutions that simply and
securely integrate with any data source for
BI/analytics, with no firewall reconfiguration
»» Connectivity solutions for emerging or other
unique data sources through traditional
techniques and open standards
Progress® DataDirect® is a trusted partner empowering you to deliver fast, easy and
scalable connectivity to big data sources, data on-premise and in the cloud.
With today’s avalanche of data
sources comes surprising new
connectivity challenges you can’t
afford to ignore.

also frequently wanted to use data connectivity
components in data warehouse extract and manipulation
processes, as well as exporting to business partners and
complying with various third-party mandates.
As a result, NetSuite had to ensure that its software could
adhere to international and industry-wide standards for
data connectivity such as ODBC and JDBC APIs and ANSI
database language SQL. Not only that, the developer team
at NetSuite also needed to ensure that their software
would keep current with the latest versions and features
of those standards.
NetSuite reports that Progress DataDirect has served
not only as a vendor of excellent data connectivity
components, but also as a product integration partner,
providing outstanding technical support.
“The DataDirect support is great,” reports one
development PM. “We were able to port some old driver
code to the new DataDirect version within a few days,
working with DataDirect via e-mails sent from engineer to
engineer for clarification. Response time was frequently a
matter of minutes.”
NETSUITE CHOOSES PROGRESS
DATADIRECT FOR BREADTH OF
CONNECTIVITY
NetSuite is an early success story in the business model
approach of offering software as a service (SaaS) via the
cloud and a leading vendor of cloud computing business
management software suites. NetSuite enables mid-
market companies to manage core business operations
in a single system, which includes accounting/enterprise
resource planning (ERP), customer relationship
management (CRM) and e-commerce. The company’s
patent-pending “real-time dashboard” technology
provides an easy-to-use view into up-to-date, role-
specific business information for customers to manage
their day-to-day business operations.
NetSuite needed to provide hosted software customers
with data connectivity from their applications to other
applications in customers’ businesses. Aside from
advanced reporting on NetSuite applications, customers
NETSUITE
“DataDirect OpenAccess provided us
with pretty simple programming of 13-
to-18 methods…That translated to a
quick learning curve and fast product
development.”
NetSuite developer
INDUSTRY: SOFTWARE | HEADQUARTERS: THE UNITED STATES
NG BUSINESSES DO BUSINESS
e is an early success story in the business model approach of offering software
vice (SaaS) via the Internet cloud and a leading vendor of cloud computing
s management software suites. NetSuite enables mid-market companies
ge core business operations in a single system, which includes accounting/
se resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and
erce. The company’s patent-pending “real-time dashboard” technology provides
to-use view into up-to-date, role-specific business information for customers
ge their day-to-day business operations.
OPERABILITY WITH EVERYONE
dor that provides SaaS to business customers will find its software challenged
perate with applications within those customers’ existing IT environment.
e is no different.
CHALLENGE
Provide customers of the
company’s hosted software
data connectivity from thei
applications to other applic
in customers’ businesses
SOLUTION
Progress
®
DataDirect
®
OpenAccess
™
SDK—for data
connectivity supporting an
extensive breadth of standa
More than 300 NetSuite customers make use of ODBC
capabilities deployed using the DataDirect OpenAccess SDK
spanning a variety of uses.
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EXPLORE ANALYTICS GETS EASY
ACCESS TO REAL-TIME CLOUD DATA
WITH PROGRESS DATADIRECT
Explore Analytics provides a cloud-based, self-service
data analysis and visualization SaaS solution that enables
cloud data visualization, delivering rich, graphical business
intelligence tools to individuals and teams of any size.
For business intelligence (BI) software vendors, the ability
to embed real-time access to cloud data in their software
solutions can be a make-or-break capability. But the
development effort needed to design, manage and test
complex integrations with multiple customer relationship
management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP)
and big data sources is overwhelming. And maintaining
updates in the application programming interface (API)
can be a significant and ongoing development burden. In
addition, users of BI and ETL tools require access to real-
EXPLORE ANALYTICS
time information (not available from batch uploads) so
they can ensure the most current views of enterprise data.
Explore Analytics saw the opportunity to create a
highly differentiated BI solution through a SaaS data
visualization solution for businesses and small teams
focused on self-service BI. The company wanted to
enable seamless customer access to SaaS and big data
applications to support rich data analysis and visualization
without the need for IT support.
The decision to partner with Progress® DataDirect® and
integrate with Progress® DataDirect CloudTM
helped create
a solution that allowed customers to extract data from the
cloud in real time that can be visualized for analysis in a
standard or mobile web browser.
As a result, Explore Analytics was able to accelerate time
to market with a clearly differentiated self-service BI
solution that will scale to support cloud data from multiple
SaaS apps and big data stores.
INDUSTRY: BI SOFTWARE | HEADQUARTERS: THE UNITED STATES
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“The cloud story for Progress DataDirect Cloud
is very appealing, and it complements our
SaaS offering. Progress DataDirect Cloud is a
robust and proven integration platform. The
technology is scalable and very dependable.
We like the fact that customers can start small.
Many of our customers start with just a single
user or a small department. It’s easy to register
for our service on a subscription basis, and if
they want to use Explore Analytics to analyze
real-time information from Salesforce, we
recommend Progress DataDirect Cloud and
they can evaluate us together.”
Gadi Yedwab,
Founder and CEO of Explore Analytics

PROGRESS DATADIRECT MAKES IT
POSSIBLE FOR MICROSTRATEGY TO
CONNECT THEIR PLATFORM TO NEW
DATA SOURCES
MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of
enterprise software platforms, needed to sustain
its market leadership as customers demand direct
access to new types of data sources, such as
Salesforce.com and Apache Hive.
MicroStrategy has stayed ahead of the analytics
industry by combining a simple, intuitive user
interface design with high levels of system
performance and a virtually unlimited, open
approach to database connectivity.
MICROSTRATEGY
Progress® DataDirect®, a MicroStrategy partner,
makes it possible for MicroStrategy to connect
their platform to new types of data sources,
such as Salesforce.com and Hadoop Hive, while
preserving their data source agnostic, high-
performance analytics design principles.
As a result, MicroStrategy has gained a
competitive advantage with Progress DataDirect’s
ODBC drivers for Salesforce and Hadoop Hive by
adding the popular data sources to their arge
portfolio of business intelligence (BI) platform
configurations and databases.
INDUSTRY: BI SOFTWARE | HEADQUARTERS: THE UNITED STATES
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“Our baseline requirement is that our
clients should have access to all of the
data in their enterprises. We also invest
in staying ahead of everyone else with
high performing dashboards, reports,
and analytics… Today, with new data
sources such as Salesforce and Hive
becoming increasingly prevalent, we
continue to leverage the DataDirect
relationship to adapt while keeping our
platform functioning optimally for the
end user.”
Jochen Demuth,
Director of Partner Engineering at MicroStrategy

DRIVING HIGH
PERFORMANCE
WITH SUPERIOR ON-
PREMISE, HYBRID OR
CLOUD DATA ACCESS
When your customers demand anywhere,
anytime access to your data, you need a proven
architecture that lets you control the complexity.
It must integrate all your data with simplicity,
flexibility and speed, and deliver the superior
performance—and competitive edge—your
customers demand.
Your solutions should be built around easy and
reliable access to a wide range of data sources
and types, even when behind the firewall. This
means you need unified, secure and real-time
access to SaaS, cloud and on-premise data. And
your connectivity must be standards-based,
vendor-neutral and reside in a proven architecture
that not only guarantees super-fast response
times for transaction-intensive systems but also
easily scales in tandem with changing business
requirements.
As you deliver elegant, easy-to-maintain solutions
with simplicity, flexibility and speed, your
customers are empowered with the extraordinary
performance they need to compete more
effectively in today’s on-demand marketplace.

OUTPERFORMING THE
COMPETITION WITH
OUR CONNECTIVITY
SOLUTIONS
Our patented technologies are built into every
solution, connecting directly to the data instead
of client libraries for the fastest, most scalable
performance available.
Our drivers work smarter, not harder, to
consistently outperform the competition with:
»» Superior throughput and scalability
Processing up to 500% more information in
a given time period. As you add more users,
the better the throughput compared to the
competition.
»» Greater resources efficiency
Our connectivity uses fewer CPU cycles for
150% more efficiency and our powerhouse
drivers use significantly less memory than
most other JDBC drivers, saving up to 400%
in memory.
This means you are able to optimize application
performance with:
»» Robust application failover
»» Rapid bulk data loading
»» Statement pooling and load balancing
Our connectivity solutions let you provide
advanced functions with the “push of a button”
—without having to modify the application
code, regardless of environment or data access
model. As a result, it’s easy to continually fine-
tune connectivity to give your customers peak
application performance. This high-performance
connectivity translates into better business
performance, higher customer satisfaction and
long-term loyalty.
In heavy transaction scenarios
involving the retrieval of records,
our on-premise connectivity
performs up to 1450% faster.
Progress DataDirect gives you up to 500% more processing power with fewer resources.

ENTERPRISE DATA OUTLIVES ITS USE
AND TECHNOLOGY
HP is among the world’s largest and most
successful IT companies. Its portfolio spans
printing, personal computing software, services,
and IT infrastructure. HP today focuses on
simplifying technology experiences for all of its
customers—from individual consumers to the
world’s largest business enterprises.
The Information Management division of HP
Software needed to expand the capabilities of the
HP Database Archiving platform, which relocates
older, eligible transactions contained in production
databases to secondary archive databases and
XML archives.
HEWLETT PACKARD
Legal regulations require certain types of
company data to be available for very long
periods of time, potentially driving up costs
for IT organizations. HP wanted to make this
“compliance archiving” more economical for
customers but also ensure that information is
readily available if and when needed.
When Progress® DataDirect® made a
presentation of the Progress® DataDirect®
OpenAccess™ SDK, the match was obvious.“It was
exactly what we were looking for in our project,” Ali
Elkortobi, Director of Research and Development
for HP Software, recalls. Progress DataDirect also
helped HP Software in evaluating and implementing
the technology. The end result was that HP
customers had a standards-based approach to
quickly and easily respond to audit and inquiries
against long-term compliance data.
INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY | HEADQUARTERS: THE UNITED STATES
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“[Progress DataDirect OpenAccess SDK]
was exactly what we were looking for
in our project,” Elkortobi recalls. “It
provides a stack that enabled us to plug
in a data store—whatever that data store
is—and saved us the time and expense
of having to rewrite the whole stack,
which includes a SQL engine and all the
protocols: JDBC, ODBC, whatever.”
Ali Elkortobi,
Director of Research and Development
for HP Software

CORPORATE FINANCE COMPANY
RELIES ON OUR HIGH-PERFORMANCE
CONNECTIVITY
With more than 30 years of experience, Vertex Inc. is the
leading provider of enterprise corporate tax solutions and
process management services worldwide. Vertex needed
to devote development personnel to the company’s core
competency rather than having them address complex
data connectivity requirements.
The Vertex product provides wireless and wireline
telecommunications providers with the latest tax rules
and regulations for thousands of taxing jurisdictions that
require strict compliance. The product interfaces with
billing applications to simplify tax processes and is where
Hart sought a better approach to database connectivity.
VERTEX
INDUSTRY: FINANCE | HEADQUARTERS: THE UNITED STATES
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“We’ve had to deal with the challenge of providing
our solutions on a variety of hardware and database
platforms,” said John Hart, Enterprise Software Architect
at Vertex. “In the time before ODBC was viewed as ‘mature’
our approach to database connectivity was to utilize the
native capabilities of each database vendor.”
“This approach to database connectivity,” said Hart,
“introduced a lot of complexity for the Vertex development
team. We needed to code and maintain a Database
Programmer’s Interface (DPI) layer within our systems
to abstract data access for each database type and
database version that we supported.”
Vertex chose Progress® DataDirect® Connect® ODBC and
was then able to free its development personnel to focus
on revenue-producing projects.
“We were really attracted to the
wire protocol design,” said Hart.
“We knew we were going to get as fast
or faster performance than the ODBC
connectivity models provided
by the database vendors.”
John Hart,
Enterprise Software Architect

UK EXPORT FINANCE GETS 50% FASTER
BATCH PROCESSING
The Exports Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) is the
United Kingdom’s official export credit agency. It supports
UK exporters and investors by providing insurance facilities
and help in arranging finance packages.
ODBC drivers provide the critical link between ECGD’s
Oracle database and the department’s loans and claims
platform. Such drivers played a crucial role in a project
undertaken to streamline ECGD’s business processes.
A complex IT project representing a considerable
investment, the implementation involved the consolidation
of three custom-built applications responsible for
underwriting, claims and debt recovery transactions.
ECGD needed to consolidate systems without increasing
batch processing time.
UK EXPORT CREDITS GUARANTEE DEPARTMENT
The company chose Progress® DataDirect Connect®
for ODBC. Out of the box, DataDirect Connect for ODBC
was able to cut ECGD batch system run times in half,
to complete the overnight jobs in the required window,
and to achieve an acceptable service level overall.
Because it is based on a clientless wire protocol design,
DataDirect Connect for ODBC eliminates the need for
client libraries, resulting in maximum performance and
reduced maintenance costs.Now, batch processing occurs
overnight without impacting daily business operations—
and runs 50% faster.
“Use of DataDirect drivers was a key component in
achieving a successful implementation of the project,”
Linda Woods, IT Director UK ECGD, said. “When the
DataDirect drivers were installed we were able to achieve
the timescale we were looking for.
Out of the box, Progress DataDirect Connect for OBDC cut
ECGD batch system run times by 50 percent.”
INDUSTRY: INSURANCE | HEADQUARTERS: THE UNITED KINGDOM
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“Out of the box, Progress DataDirect
Connect for ODBC cut ECGD batch system
run times by 50%.”
Linda Woods,
IT Director UK Export Credits
Guarantee Department
GD: IMPROVING BATCH PROCESSING PERFORMANCE
LOANS AND CLAIMS
ods found herself up against a serious roadblock when the end-of-day batch
s she needed to run exceeded the overnight window allowed for it. IT Director at
d Kingdom’s Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), Woods knew that
ss had to complete before the following business day.
is the United Kingdom’s official export credit agency — a government
nt reporting to the country’s Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.
s UK exporters and investors by providing insurance facilities and help in
finance packages. Important business transactions ride on the proper and
operation of ECGD’s IT systems during business hours.
GOAL
Consolidate systems without
unacceptably increasing bat
processing windows.
SOLUTION

With DataDirect ADO.NET in place, Sybase ASE is able to
handle the large data uploads efficiently and without error.
MAKING THE MOVE TO EFFICIENCY WITH
ADO.NET
Profitability at MDS is built on a blend of integrity and
super-efficient business operations. Large amounts of
data feed custom-coded applications. On an average
day, database administrators are presented with flat files
(XML, XL, CSV) containing millions of records that must
be uploaded in to the systems for collections processing
within 24 hours. MDS is paid based on a percentage of the
receivable. As the life cycle increases, the potential value
decreases, so delays or errors in uploading negatively
affect the business. The viability of the company also
depends on efficient use of personnel and computing
resources. Having to redo or correct data uploads impedes
smooth operations.
When the company recently upgraded its version of
Sybase ASE, its main database, the company encountered
“blocking locks” during upload. These essentially stopped
MEDICAL DATA SYSTEMS (MDS)
the file processing from occurring. The company needed
error-free loading of this high-volume and time-sensitive
medical collection data without having to recode every
time the custom database was updated.
MDS went with Progress DataDirect ADO.NET which
creates a direct connection to the RDBMS, avoiding the
need for custom coding for the RDBMS or reliance on
vendor client libraries. It worked, with ADO.NET becoming
the interface from the database to their applications. With
a 100% managed wire protocol ADO.NET architecture,
the DataDirect ADO.NET solution connects directly to the
RDBMS. There is neither a need for custom coding in the
RDBMS language nor a reliance on database vendor client
libraries. The results include superior performance and
resource efficiency—both highly relevant for the MDS
business goal of cost effective, rapid uptake of data.
Performance and security are further enhanced because
database calls are not made outside of the common
language runtime (CLR).
INDUSTRY: HEALTHCARE | HEADQUARTERS: XXX
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“We are working with huge volumes of
data. Delays in uploading this volume of
data hurts our revenue. We’re relying on
Progress DataDirect drivers to give us
the ODBC layer between our application
code and the database”
Karl Sanders
Network administrator

MAKING DATA WORK
FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS
As the world’s leader in data integration,
we keep you and your customers continually
connected to their heritage systems as
well as to the world of big data. Our robust
language, platform and architecture support
empowers you to provide easy access to the
large volume, sources and types coming fast
and furious from today’s big data sources.
At the same time, we empower you to
provide premium connectivity to traditional
data sources, with the extreme scalability
and efficiency your customers need.
This combination of high-speed connectivity
lets you not only deliver quick access
and easy data integration across your
customer organizations but data blending
and preparation tools that enable better
business intelligence.
Whatever industry and whether
large or small, our decades
of leadership in the data
integration space can help
you deliver the performance,
insights and intelligence your
customers’ businesses need to
go to the next level.

VoltDB worked closely with Progress to develop a proof of
concept of the ODBC driver on Linux and Windows in just
one month and launched the driver two months after that.
VOLTDB ENABLES 50% FASTER TIME TO
MARKET WITH PROGRESS DATADIRECT
VoltDB is a modern NewSQL in-memory database designed
to handle the most challenging workloads and operations
at tremendous speeds with limitless scalability and
zero data loss. Its revolutionary scalable architecture
allows VoltDB users to build once-thought-impossible
applications that leverage inexpensive, virtualized
computing infrastructures, including popular cloud service
platforms.
VoltDB’s customers needed the ability to visualize and
access in-memory database customers required the
ability to visualize and access data through standard
analytics and business intelligence (BI) solutions such
as Tableau and MicroStrategy.
VoltDB
“We evaluated several offerings, including
Simba Technologies, but we chose Progress
DataDirect OpenAccess because of
DataDirect’s leadership and demonstrated
success within the market, and because I was
confident in Progress’s engineering team and
appreciated the level of access I would have to
that group throughout the development and
implementation.”
John Piekos, Vice President of Engineering, VoltDB
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www.progress.com
DATADIRECT
®
ODBC DELIVERS SCALABILITY AND
BILITY
on-demand world where fast is becoming too slow. For many
ity is everything – the key to enhanced revenue, customer satisfaction
nt of the competition. But the emergence of Big Data is proving to be
e, making it difficult, time consuming and cumbersome to access and
amounts of data in a way that makes the information actionable.
ed to solve that challenge. Designed by Dr. Michael Stonebraker,
base research and technology and a professor at MIT, VoltDB is
B
CHALLENGE
In-memory database customers
required the ability to visualize
and access data through
standard analytics and business
In addition to high-write workloads and per-event
decisioning, VoltDB’s database customers also wanted
the ability to visualize and access fast-moving data
through standard analytics and BI solutions such as
Tableau and MicroStrategy. To enable that connectivity,
VoltDB developed a new ODBC driver using the Progress
DataDirect OpenAccess SDK, the industry’s leading
custom driver development kit. DataDirect OpenAccess
SDK makes any data source SQL accessible and enables
developers to implement data-source specific code using
just 12 functions.
Utilizing the built-in performance Progress DataDirect,
VoltDB was able to reduce time to market by 50% versus
other solutions, developing a prototype in one month and
releasing the new driver in just three months.
Progress DataDirect’s reputation for having incredibly
reliable and scalable drivers was also very important to
VoltDB. “Our Progress DataDirect ODBC driver is critical to
ensuring that high availability to the end user,” said John
Piekos, vice president of engineering at VoltDB.

PANINTELLIGENCE DECREASES TIME
TO MARKET BY 5X WITH PROGRESS
DATADIRECT
A UK-based software company, Panintelligence
provides highly intuitive business intelligence (BI)
solutions to customers across a range of industries.
The Panintelligence dashboard is a business intelligence
application that can span multiple databases, allowing
users to access their data in real time and help them to
make better-informed decisions.
Panintelligence recommended to their OEM partner, a
large educational software provider, that they implement
a new driver to connect its BI software with Salesforce for
more flexibility in analyzing and reporting on its Salesforce
CRM data. Panintelligence evaluated a number of third-
party vendors, including Simba, RSS Bus and Progress
DataDirect. “It was clear from our evaluation that the
PANINTELLIGENCE
“We estimated it would have taken
us at least six months to build a
Salesforce API connector, and then
we would have been responsible
for maintaining the connector.
We concluded that our time and
resources were far better spent
developing differentiating features
for our own applications.
Ken Miller, Product Director for
Panintelligence Ltd.
INDUSTRY: BI SOFTWARE VENDOR | HEADQUARTERS: THE UNITED KINGDOM
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Progress DataDirect Connect JDBC for Salesforce driver
was head and shoulders better than the other drivers out
there,” says Miller. “There were so many things we just
couldn’t do with the other solutions; they proved to be
quite limited. Whereas, everything we tried with Progress
DataDirect delighted us.”
Using the Progress DataDirect Connect connector with
the Panintelligence BI software, they uncovered the fact
that approximately 25% of the data was incorrectly listed
and those opportunities were not showing up in Salesforce
reports. Using DataDirect, Panintelligence was able to pull
all of those exceptions into the BI tool and compare the
information to the rest of the Salesforce data.
Using Progress DataDirect, Panintelligence took just 20
minutes to combine the data back together in Salesforce
and suddenly their customer had visibility into 25% more
opportunities.

WITH PROGRESS DATADIRECT, COINS IS
ABLE TO CONNECT BI WITH BUSINESS
LOGIC DATA
Construction Industry Solutions (COINS), the market
leader in enterprise software solutions for the
construction industry, has made managing construction
data its core business for more than 30 years.
Today, COINS’ clients are embracing business intelligence
(BI) platforms so they can conduct more individualized,
in-depth analysis of their data. However, connecting with
third-party BI tools presents a challenge to any application
and COINS needed a way to share data outside its own
application stack in an efficient structure more suited for
BI analytics and reporting.
COINS has used Progress DataDirect OpenAccess to
create ODBC and JDBC drivers that expose the data
inside the COINS application. OpenAccess is a software
COINS
“By combining Progress OpenEdge
with DataDirect OpenAccess, we
have unlocked the potential with
regard to BI tools.”
Tim Armitage,
Technical Director,
Construction Industry Solutions
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development kit (SDK) that enables simple development of
custom drivers for any data source or API.
From a business perspective, OpenAccess makes COINS a
continually appealing partner for its construction industry
clients. “By combining Progress OpenEdge with DataDirect
OpenAccess, we have unlocked the potential with regard
to BI tools,” said Tim Armitage, Technical Director,
Construction Industry Solutions. “This is a huge advantage
for us strategically. Not only are we making in-depth,
flexible BI possible at a low cost, we are enabling the client
to integrate BI into their platforms, using any toolset they
prefer, and that’s the power of the Progress OpenAccess
application.”
With Progress DataDirect, COINS is able to connect BI with
its business logic data that includes essential business
logic in the process. The result is flexible, economical
and secure data connectivity that allows COINS clients
to match the sophistication of the COINS construction
software with the BI tool of their choice.

SUMMARY: TAKING
YOUR CUSTOMERS
FROM GOOD
TO GREAT
In today’s data-driven world, data on demand is
going to make the difference between mediocrity
and top performance in business.
As the industry leader in simple, reliable, high-
performance enterprise connectivity, Progress
DataDirect empowers you and your customers to
leverage all the data essential for success.
Progress DataDirect—
Connecting the world’s data across
applications, systems and people
Working with Progress DataDirect allows you to
become an essential partner for your customers
by:
»» Providing ready-to-go, easy connectivity
»» Reducing complexity while delivering a more
comprehensive solution
»» Decreasing application development cycles
and costs
»» Reducing IT maintenance and support costs
»» Enhancing application performance and
reliability
»» Increasing satisfaction and loyalty
»» Expanding product revenue and profitability
»» Enhancing competitive advantage and
market share

DID YOU KNOW?
Progress DataDirect has:
»» 10,000s+ global enterprises in 160+ countries,
including 96 in the Fortune 100
»» 10x larger than other data access vendors
»» 350+ independent software vendors that embed our
technologies
»» 2,000+ applications have been built by ISVs
using our technologies
»» 200+ supported data sources
»» Every day people around the world use
applications built on DataDirect technologies
»» 25+ year-old business, with the backing of our
parent company, and is the undisputed leader
in the premium data access market
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Director of Partner Engineering at MicroStrategy
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“By combining Progress OpenEdge
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