BEDFORD, MA, Oct. 12, 2009 (Marketwire) -- Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced that Slumberland, a leading furniture retailer in the Midwest, is using standards-based data connectivity products from Progress DataDirect for reliable, high-performance support for all major databases and 64-bit operating systems.
The Slumberland data center is comprised of two major line-of-business systems: a retail system that relies on an Oracle database that supports Point-of-Sale (POS), inventory, accounting and merchandising functionality; and a warehouse management system used to manage the flow of products within the company's distribution centers. The data gathered and generated by these systems is then fed into a Business Intelligence (BI) platform, based on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on a Windows server using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Microsoft SQL Server BI Development Studio.
Slumberland came to realize a 32-bit Windows operating system running Microsoft SQL Server had limited native memory capacity to support the more than 10,000 daily reports and increasing load of business transactions and data processing required by the business. To ensure peak performance, Slumberland migrated to a 64-bit architecture.
"While Oracle offered a simplistic data provider solution involving a port of its 32-bit client to the 64-bit platform, it really didn't give us the performance or capacity we needed," explained Seth Mitchell, infrastructure team manager at Slumberland. "Moreover, the Oracle provider that was previously included with SQL Server was deprecated by Microsoft, discouraging future development using it. The standards-based data drivers from Progress DataDirect offered the performance, scalability and depth of support we needed to ensure consistent, reliable data connectivity for our most critical business systems."
DataDirect Connect64(R) for ODBC provides industry-leading data access for all popular databases and 64-bit applications running on all major platforms. Full-feature compatibility with DataDirect Connect(R) for ODBC provides easy migration for customers moving applications from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture and uses the same wire protocol design that eliminates the need for database client libraries -- simplifying installation and administration while improving performance. In addition to DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC, Slumberland has also implemented DataDirect Connect64 for SSIS, which enables development, deployment and 32-bit or 64-bit runtime execution of Microsoft SSIS packages for non-SQL Server databases like Sybase, Oracle and DB2.
Moving millions of records each night, the Slumberland data warehouse system required fully optimized tools for the quick and reliable transport of its Extract Transform Load (ETL) processes.
