Software AG, an expert in world-class enterprise modernisation and information integration, today announced the availability of its new Adabas SQL Gateway. The gateway extends the reach of the company's high-speed database, called Adabas, to the business user's desktop by enabling standard SQL applications such as Microsoft Office to quickly and easily access Adabas data.
Through the Adabas SQL Gateway, Software AG's Adabas customers will be able to boost productivity by accessing data directly from Adabas through popular PC-based SQL reporting tools such as Business Objects, Crystal Reports or Excel spreadsheets.
Previously, data needed to be sent from Adabas to another application, such as a data warehouse, before it could be accessed by SQL desktop applications. The new gateway is designed to reduce information requests from business users to their organisation's IT department by enabling authorised users to query Adabas data on their own.
"One of Software AG's most important initiatives is to help our customers unlock the data stored in their Adabas systems and make that information more accessible and useful to the business organisations they serve," said Joe Gentry, vice-president of Enterprise Transaction Systems for Software AG. "Our Adabas SQL Gateway empowers the business decision-maker by creating the potential for rapid and direct access to vital information residing in Adabas."
Software AG has partnered with Redmond, Washington-based CONNX Solutions to provide technology for the Adabas SQL Gateway. CONNX is a leading provider of data access and integration software solutions that allow users to directly access vital enterprise data from DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, VSAM, and many other disparate data sources.
Software AG's Adabas SQL Gateway is scheduled to ship in 2Q 2004. The initial release of the product will support Adabas on IBM OS/390 and z/OS platforms, as well as Adabas for Windows.
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