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07 Jun Data Point of the Week #2 – Fast Connections to SaaS Apps
People like fast. Fast cars, fast commutes, fast Internet speeds. What about fast connections to SaaS apps? While this may not seem quite as exciting, being able to quickly connect to your data sources is critical when making business decisions. One way to establish fast connections is through the DataDirect OpenAccess solution, which makes SaaS…
Read more06 Jun How to Accelerate Data Discovery
You may have read my recent blog post on how to ensure that business applications are able to make the most from efficient data connectivity. So now that you’ve uncovered the mysterious data lurking in the depths of your data stores and begun to grasp the new application development environment, it’s time to get a…
Read more03 Jun Breathe Easy: Tips for Preventing SQL Injection Attacks
Public data breaches in one form or another are more prevalent than ever these days, so it’s important to use a variety of tactics to keep hackers at bay. While a database on your network or in your application is safe enough on its own, when you connect perfectly secure web interface to a perfectly…
Read more31 May Progress Exchange 2013: A Keynote You Won’t Forget
We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for Progress Exchange 2013, Luke Williams, a Professor of Innovation, NYU, and international bestselling author. Don’t miss the globally recognized authority on disruptive innovation, as he challenges you to turn assumptions and expectations upside down to spark transformation in your business. “By artfully smashing ideas together—Luke Williams…
Read more30 May Data Point of the Week #1 – Standard-Based Connectivity
Today we’re excited to kick off our “Data Point of the Week” series, a four-part blog series that will offer advice and pointers and answer questions about different data access issues. First up: Why do we need standard-based connectivity? Most SaaS applications like Salesforce.com expose their functionality through the Web interface to allow it to…
Read more29 May Real-time SQL Access to Salesforce? – Yes. It’s possible
May has been a very busy month for us in EMEA. First, Bradley Wright hosted a Roundtable Session at Big Data Innovation Summit in London “Big Data Access: High-throughput Data Access to Data Sources Involving Hadoop Systems”, then, with two Salesforce Customer Company Tours, one in London and one in Paris, the rest of the month was…
Read more29 May Cognos Business Analytics connectivity to Hadoop Hive just got bigger
In my role as DataDirect Systems Engineer + IBM Certified Cognos Developer, I have been integrating data for IBM Cognos shops ranging from relational data sources on premise to SaaS data sources in the cloud; and next up: “Big Data”. IBM’s Apache Hadoop solution, InfoSphere BigInsights, integrates nicely with IBM Cognos 10.2 using DQM. However, my…
Read more22 May Tips for Adaptive Application Development and Data Connectivity in the Cloud
Cloud computing is not only changing the data connectivity space, but also how we develop applications. So how can IT organizations ensure that applications adapt faster to changing conditions and cloud data migrations both inside and outside the business? The first step is to look further than traditional on-premise data connectivity towards a hybrid environment…
Read more16 May Update on Progress Exchange 2013
We are happy to be able to share additional information on Progress Exchange 2013 tracks and some of the exciting things we have planned for October. With three full days of valuable content and more than 70 hours of breakout sessions across eight tracks, the event will be packed full of networking opportunities and sessions…
Read more16 May Websphere Liberty Profile JDBC NTLM Windows Authentication from Unix/Linux to SQL Server
In introducing Websphere Liberty Profile (WLP), Dr. Ian Robinson, IBM Distinguished Engineer asks these three questions when choosing a tool for any kind of job: Is this going to be able to do the job? Is this the easiest way to do it? Do I like using it? The answers for WLP were all yes;…
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