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, 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 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 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; Adabas (currently OS/390, z/OS, VSE, Unix, and Windows platforms); IDMS (on all platforms);
Datacom (on all platforms); Microsoft SQL Server (on all platforms); Sybase (on all platforms); Informix (on all platforms);
C-ISAM, DISAM, and Micro Focus (on Linux, AIX, Sun, Solaris, and SCO operating systems); IBM VSAM (on z/OS, OS/390, MVS,
and VSE); IBM DB2 (on all platforms); Oracle (on all platforms); RMS, Rdb, and Codasyl DBMS (on OpenVMS and VMS platforms);
PostGreSQL (on all platforms); Dataflex; POWERflex; and any OLE DB, ODBC, or .NET, or JDBC 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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