Solutions for XML

Gevity, an employment management solutions company serving small and medium-sized businesses across the U.S., used DataDirect XQuery in designing a web-based sales tool that lets their sales team price proposals in real time, beating out competitors by a matter of days. Using DataDirect's XQuery engine, Gevity's developers aggregated web services data from SalesForce.com with relational data from multiple Oracle 9i databases and integrated that with an XML-based user interface. Users can access the data they need from a web browser, a BlackBerry, or even a cell phone.

Innovative solutions like these demonstrate why XML has become an international standard. Developers have seized on its many advantages, such as:

• Widespread support across industry boundaries and extensive support from vendors.
• Platform and application independence, allowing free movement between hardware and operating system platforms.
• Flexibility, allowing data to be repurposed for many different uses.

SOAP and web service architectures are built on XML-based requests and responses, making XML a must for organizations determined to seize the full cost-saving and competitive advantages of a service-oriented architecture.

Why DataDirect for XML-Based Solutions?

XML solutions are data-driven. If your organization's data access doesn't offer the kind of XML support that gives you the freedom to implement XML-based solutions in any manner you wish, then you're missing out on the core benefits that XML can provide.

That's why DataDirect - the data connectivity experts - supports XML across the board. We know that to provide you with a complete solution to your unique requirements, we have to enable access to multiple different data sources using multiple approaches, regardless of where those sources reside.

DataDirect offers:

• DataDirect XQuery, our powerful XQuery engine for driving XML-intensive applications.
• DataDirect XML Converters, providing bi-directional, programmatic, streaming access to virtually any data source (EDI, flat files, etc.) as XML.
• XML support for relational database connectivity throughout our DataDirect Connect family of database drivers for ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET.
• XML support for mainframe integration in our Shadow family of products, which integrate mainframe data, applications, and screens into enterprisewide and web-driven environments.

DataDirect is heavily involved in formulating and enhancing the many standards - such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and XQuery - that form the lifeblood of true heterogeneous platform integration. This active participation gives us the foresight needed to immediately support new technology developments as they emerge, such as DataDirect's support for new XML data types in the JDBC 4.0 specification.

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