Press Coverage

02/01/2009 — Product Review: DataDirect Data Integration Suite — Kay Ewbank looks at DataDirect’s Data Integration Suite, which aims to deliver on XML’s promise to make things simpler.

02/04/2009 — Product Review: DataDirect XML Converters 4.0 — Don Taylor, Benefitfocus CTO and Jack Lunn, Benefitfocus director of engineering, Automation review DataDirect XML Converters 4.0 for Information Management. (View as a PDF)

01/13/2009 — DBTA 5 Minute Briefing: Data Integration — New features and functionality in the DataDirect Data Integration Suite are intended to help maximize developer productivity, reduce the need for manual coding, and accelerate the delivery of mission-critical information to enterprise applications and end users.

01/08/2009 — DataDirect Data Integration Suite Boasts New Features — Designed to meet the data transformation and aggregation needs of developers, the DataDirect Data Integration Suite contains the latest product releases of DataDirect XQuery, DataDirect XML Converters (Java and .NET) and Stylus Studio in one installation.

11/20/2008 — Dos and Don'ts of SOA Data Access — During a keynote at the Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008, Rob Steward, vice president of research and development at Progress Software's DataDirect Technologies division explained that enterprises should build their access, especially data access, from the ground up using SOA principles.

07/28/2008 — DataDirect Bundles Data Integration Offerings — DataDirect Technologies announced the availability of a new offering that combines DataDirect Technologies' existing XML-based technologies into one package, with a single installation.

07/25/2008 — DataDirect Offers Data Integration Suite — DataDirect Technologies on Monday announced a suite of data transformation/aggregation solutions for developers that combine three of its XML-based tools.

07/24/2008 — DataDirect Identifies Top Benefits for XQuery + SOA — As XQuery language becomes more widely used by corporate IT, a DataDirect Technologies exec outlines ways for how XQuery combines with SOA to better connect disparate data sources and simplify data management.

01/03/2008 — January's New Tools and Apps for Your Toolkit — DataDirect Technologies upgraded two of its XML products-XQuery 3.1 and XML Converters 3.1. DataDirect XML Converters 3.1 now supports the Health Level Seven 2.5 standard, enabling improved interoperability across clinical and administrative systems. Version 3.1 of DataDirect XQuery now supports both the Enterprise and Community Editions of MySQL.

12/14/2007 — DataDirect Launches New Release of XML Converters and XQuery Engine — With version 3.1 of its XML products, DataDirect offers even greater scalability and performance; broadens its support of popular databases and industry standards; and offers a highly scalable streaming architecture to exceed the most demanding data integration and enterprise system requirements.

12/05/2007 — DataDirect Issues 3.1 Versions of XML Products — Improvements fall in three categories: there is added support for healthcare industry data exchange standards, the number of databases supported has been expanded, and new document formats are addressed.

09/18/2007 — DataDirect Bridges XML/EDI Gap — "An interesting new product announcement came out of DataDirect Technologies this week that should help smooth the flow of information between enterprises. The company says its XML Converters now supports leading electronic data interchange (EDI) standards, as well as the flat and binary file formats used by retail, healthcare and other organizations."

09/05/2007 — Dover Picks DataDirect for Cross-Channel Translation — The UK's Port of Dover, home of the cross-channel ferry, has streamlined its customs operations to cope with new messaging standards using DataDirect Technologies’ XML converters.

09/05/2007 — UK Port Picks DataDirect for Cross-Channel Translation — The UK's Port of Dover, home of the cross-channel ferry, has streamlined its customs operations to cope with new messaging standards using DataDirect Technologies' XML converters.

09/04/2007 — Un nouveau système de conversion simplifie les procédures douanières à Douvres — Le port de Douvres a mis en service un nouveau système de conversion pour préparer l'harmonisation des formats de messages de dédouanement. Le système de traduction EDI conçu en interne ne convenait pas au traitement des nouvelles normes EDIFACT pour le Document Unique harmonisé.

09/03/2007 — Port of Dover overhauls customs clearance messaging — The Port of Dover has overhauled its customs clearance messaging system to meet new EU freight handling rules.

08/02/2007 — DataDirect Technologies latest HL7 benefactor — Health Level Seven (HL7) said that DataDirect Technologies has become the organization's latest benefactor member.

07/07/2007 — Two Ways To Deal With SOA's Data Integration Challenge — "It's one thing to integrate data across applications in an IT infrastructure... But implementing data integration across a service-oriented architecture poses new challenges." Find out the two methods being used to deal with this challenge in this InformationWeek article.

06/14/2007 — Hibernate, NHibernate, drivers and data — "DataDirect has a long history in the forefront with ODBC and JDBC data access methods. Obviously, for DataDirect and for most developers, data access is much more than just that..."

06/05/2007 — The Fifth SD Times 100 — This year’s SD Times 100 shines a somewhat brighter light on the industry “Influencers” — those companies that we’ve identified as having the greatest impact on the software development landscape. [DataDirect Technologies] connectivity and integration tools continue to set the mark for others in the industry. In 2006, the company’s new XQuery technology joined the fray and made its mark.

05/15/2007 — SD Times: News Briefs — DataDirect Technologies, a provider of data connectivity and mainframe integration solutions, has announced the latest release of its bidirectional XML Converters for both Java and .NET components.The new DataDirect XML converter release converts legacy data formats into XML and back, without a major rearchitecting of the application

05/02/2007 — Launch of New XML Converters Extends DataDirect Technologies' Leadership in XML Data Integration — The DataDirect XML Converters products were created to maximize XML developer productivity by helping to eliminate some of the common challenges associated with XML data integration both in software development and deployment.

05/02/2007 — DataDirect Technologies Extends its Leadership in XML Data Integration with Launch of New XML Converters — The high-performance Java™ and .NET components provide bi-directional, programmatic access to virtually any non-XML file including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), flat files and other legacy formats.

04/26/2007 — Simplify XML Conversion — DataDirect has listened to its customers who asked for a solution to the conversion problem. This week, it announced version 3.0 of its DataDirect XML Converters, components that you can embed directly in .NET or Java application.

04/25/2007 — DataDirect releases new XML converters for SOA — As more companies turn to XML for the exchange of mission-critical data with trading partners, to conduct e-commerce and to ease data aggregation and service-oriented architectures (SOA) integration projects, they are seeking tools to easily convert legacy data formats into XML and back without a major re-architecting of their applications.

04/25/2007 — DataDirect Launches New XML Converters — More companies turn to XML to ease data aggregation and SOA integration projects. The DataDirect XML Converters products were created to maximize XML developer productivity by helping to eliminate some of the common challenges associated with XML data integration both in software development and deployment.

04/25/2007 — DataDirect Releases XML Converters — DataDirect released a set of components for Java and .NET aimed to automate the conversion of assorted data sources, such as flat files and EDI messages, to XML. In an interview with Artima, DataDirect product manager Carlo Innocenti talks about the new products, as well as about developers' changing attitude toward XML.

03/09/2007 — An XQuery Servlet for RESTful Data Services — Find out how to expose XQuery data integration services by invoking them through a Java servlet using a REST interface in this DevX article by Jonathan Robie.

02/09/2007 — Top 50 Bestselling Publisher Award 2006 — ComponentSource® announces a new awards program for its bestselling products and leading publishers. In the Bestselling Publisher Awards 2006, DataDirect Technologies has been named as a Top 50 Bestselling Publisher.

02/01/2007 — Virtualization Spreads Through the Data Center — Article from the February issue of DATABASE Trends and Applications - “XQuery provides a consolidated view of all your data. You can still do reporting through a single back end, but the data remains in a virtual state.”

01/30/2007 — DataDirect: Houston, We Have XQuery 1.0 — IDN spoke with an XQuery expert at longtime XML vendor DataDirect Technologies to learn more about how far XQuery 1.0 pushes the needle, and for suggestions on how enterprise developers and architects should react to the new XML Family standards.

01/29/2007 — XQuery is Key to SOA Implementation — Key criteria for success include the ability to efficiently process XML, the format used in all requests and responses, and the ability to easily incorporate data from a variety of sources, processing them together with data from incoming requests to create responses.

01/26/2007 — XQuery 1.0 Reaches Official Recommendation Status with W3C — This highly anticipated standard is predicted by many to be on course for the same kind of popularity - for querying XML documents - that SQL enjoys for querying relational databases.

01/24/2007 — XQuery, the SQL for SOA, wins final W3C approval — XML Query Language (XQuery), designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases, achieved fully approved standard status from the W3C on Tuesday

01/23/2007 — XQuery Database Language for XML Achieves 1.0 Status — Now it may become the task of enterprising new companies such as DataDirect, which has had an XQuery processor implementation based on reference designs for a few years, to promote the old new way to work over the more centralized approach to data management currently being exhibited by Microsoft, Oracle, and even Google.

01/22/2007 — W3C's XQuery Language Standard — The W3C's Xquery 1.0 moved to Proposed Recommendation status in November, bringing the prospect of a SQL-like approach to XML data querying one step closer to official sanction. As happens with evolving standards, support for XQuery is making its way into mainstream products.

01/19/2007 — W3C's XQuery Language Standard: Setting the Stage for Changes in Database Management — The W3C's XQuery language standard is a catalyst for dramatic changes in database management; it will let businesses evolve relational systems to access, analyze and manage a wider range of data and information.

01/18/2007 — Industry Briefing: DataDirect’s XQuery Provides XML Collaboration — DataDirect XQuery is an implementation of XQuery that can query XML, relational data, SOAP messages, EDI, or a combination of data sources while supporting the XQuery for Java API (XQJ) and all major relational databases.

01/15/2007 — 2007 Codie Award Finalists — DataDirect Technologies and DataDirect XQuery™ earn finalist status in the Codie Awards for the following two categories: Best Software Development Solution and Best Web Services Solution.

01/08/2007 — XQuery Hits its Stride — XQuery got more buzz at this year’s conference than in years past. Jonathan Robie noted he’s seen a sea change in attendee response. Whereas he used to get only confused stares and basic questions, now the discussions are getting more sophisticated.

12/14/2006 — Complete Data Integration Through XQuery — Using XQuery for data integration vastly simplifies SOA implementations, making your developers more productive and improving the performance of your systems.

12/7/2006 — Q&A: Getting a grip on XQuery — Jonathan Robie, XQuery technology lead at DataDirect Technologies, a subsidiary of Progress Software Corp., is one of the prime movers behind the XQuery standard. He spoke with Computerworld about XQuery's importance and its effect on business IT users.

12/5/2006 — Breaking News: DataDirect Intros XQuery.com — Visitors to XQuery.com will find a library of technical white papers; DataDirect XQuery product specifications, industry analyst reports, customer case studies and news releases; and a Developer Zone featuring tutorials, real-world examples, Webinars, video demonstrations, expert blogs and developer forums.

12/5/2006 — DataDirect Technologies Announces XQuery.com — The Web site provides software developers and IT architects with a comprehensive resource for navigating the complexity of today’s application architectures via the power of XQuery – the XML Query Language under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

12/1/2006 — XQuery Levels the Data Integration Playing Field — Summary: This article examines the hurdles associated with data integration, offers guidance on ways to overcome these barriers and provides an overview of XQuery's pivotal role.

11/15/2006 — XQuery and the power of learning by example — If you set out to explore XQuery, the XML query language, you’ll soon encounter a collection of examples, or use-cases, that show how XQuery can query and transform XML data.