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Using standards-based SQL, DataDirect for MongoDB lets you easily access, manage and integrate data stored in MongoDB, one of the fastest growing NoSQL data sources. The normalization of data takes place transparently, ensuring a natural consumption of data, with no impact to the application. Download this flyer to learn more.

Financial services businesses have intense demands on their information technology (IT) departments. IT departments must execute perfectly on data connectivity to ensure that client data remains secure yet accessible. Data connectivity also plays a pivotal role in making financial firms flexible enough to adapt to continuous changes in the industry and in regulatory requirements. In this paper titled "Overcoming the Top 5 Financial Services IT Challenges: The Role of Data Connectivity" you learn how standards-based data connectivity can help mitigate five core IT risks facing the financial services industry: security, reliability, performance, scalability and compliance.

A new report released by Progress Software provides a comprehensive view of the key trends and emerging technologies in the database ecosystem. The report, titled DataDirect Data Index, details the results a global survey of 300 data scientists, business analysts, developers and knowledge workers focused on how they are using data and where they have had success in their business.

Extendible data integration strategies and capabilities will play an essential role in managing cloud-based data to ensure its ongoing value and relevance. Pivotal to determining if the internal business goals and those of the cloud initiative are complementary and compatible is ascertaining what provisions are made - and will be needed - for integrating and moving cloud-based data to support the information needs of the enterprise.

Progress DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET is the industry’s only suite of ADO.NET data providers with a 100% managed architecture, eliminating the need for database clients, boosting performance, and delivering a flexible, secure connection to Oracle, DB2, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Building applications in .NET gives you a couple of different options when it comes to how you implement the database access layer. First, you have the non-managed code providers from many of the major database vendors, and second, you have fully-managed providers, like those available from third party vendors, like DataDirect Technologies (http://www.datadirect.com). The difference between managed and non-managed providers can make a significant difference in many areas, as we'll show in this paper.

Progress DataDirect ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET data connectivity components are rigorously tested under production conditions using proprietary, Progress DataDirect in-house testing suites. These have evolved over 16 years to include millions of test cases, multiple connection modes and every known bug fix.