Knowledge is Power. In order to outperform the competition in today’s market, an organization needs to capitalize on all of its assets - physical and informational. CONNX provides reusable secure, real-time read/write access to multiple heterogeneous databases as if they were one database. With CONNX, a single metadata model can be created that spans all enterprise data sources and applications requiring data access. The result is an enterprise-wide view of data that provides a reusable standards-based framework for information access.

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Here are just some of the ways CONNX can be utilized:

Application/Web Development – CONNX can help you develop tactical and strategic applications that have access to all of the data needed by end users, while preserving your options via conformance to open architectural standards.

Ad Hoc Reporting – CONNX enables you to use popular tools, such as Microsoft Visual Basic, Excel, Lotus, Cognos, Business Objects, Brio, Access or Crystal Report Writer, to present end users with decision-support information directly from multiple transactional databases.

Data Migration/ Warehousing- CONNX can act as a data pump between multiple disparate data sources, enabling the connectivity required to move data to and from sources and targets.

Preservation of Existing Systems Investment – CONNX helps preserve your existing systems investment. This is accomplished by enabling you to continue to utilize those systems. CONNX reduces workload and resource stress through movement of many functions to the client. Because CONNX enables access to existing systems, you can bring new applications online as needed, with minimal disruption to your enterprise.

CONNX is Real Time.

Unlike data warehousing products that require the IS department to physically move data from the transactional system to a relational database periodically, CONNX enables users to access data directly from transaction database sources. Because it is based on industry-standard ODBC, OLE DB, JDBC, XML, ADO, and .NET technology, CONNX enables organizations to access multiple, disparate databases, while preserving data integrity and presenting end users with a single, consistent interface.

CONNX is Robust

CONNX is a scalable solution designed for business-critical production environments. CONNX can handle any number of performance-enhancing tasks, including SQL optimization on single and multikeyed indexes, multitable joins. By offloading much of the processing required for data extraction to the PC, CONNX minimizes the impact of data extraction on the transactional system and significantly reduces network traffic.

More than 3,000 organizations worldwide depend on CONNX to access Adabas, RMS, Rdb, DBMS, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, CISAM, DISAM, Micro Focus, VSAM, PowerFlex, and DataFlex databases from a single "master" driver.

CONNX Speeds Deployment on Multiple Clients

The CONNX Silent Client enables remote installation of the CONNX client. The key to a silent client installation is a record file created during a record mode installation. Once the record file is created, it can be used to repeat the installation procedure on multiple client computers, resulting in “rapid-fire” installation of CONNX on multiple machines, which in turn can mean shorter time to implementation.

CONNX is Secure.

CONNX not only respects existing security restrictions, but offers and provides additional user, group, row, field, table, and database security.

CONNX is Vendor Neutral.

Because CONNX is based on open standards, your enterprise is not locked into one proprietary solution. CONNX provides flexibility for today and for the future.

Imagine if you could combine related information from different systems into one true enterprise-wide view across the IT structure of your organization. Then imagine that you could use this same enterprise-wide view for development or business intelligence using familiar end-user applications.

We have a technology vision called "CONNX at the Core" that meets this challenge. When fully implemented, the essential CONNX formula enables access to all of your information as if it resided in one place regardless of origin, and then seamlessly combines it in ways that make sense for your business. All projects requiring access to the same information can reuse the same layer. By using the same CONNX open architecture and standards-based technology as the nucleus for additional products, CONNX gives you the ability to access data from existing databases and the versatility to access other databases as required. There is no need to worry about mastering additional software to make it all work.

"CONNX at the Core" makes it possible for you to maintain and capitalize on the investment in your enterprise data, combine it with the latest technologies, preserve the integrity of the data, improve productivity, and keep your business running smoothly.