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Progress DataDirect

Score4.5 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Progress DataDirect?

Progress Software offers DataDirect, a data connectivity solution which helps enterprises integrate data across relational, big data and cloud databases.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL

    Ability to connect to non-traditional data sources like Hadoop and other big data technologies, and NoSQL databases

    Category average: 7.7

  • Collaboration

    Collaboration is enabled by a shared repository of project information and metadata

    Category average: 7.2

  • Integration with MDM tools

    Integration with master data management tools to ensure data consistency across the organization

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Testing and debugging

    Tool to debug and tune for optimal performance

    Category average: 6.9

  • Integration with data quality tools

    Integration with tools for cleansing, parsing and normalizing data according to business rules

    Category average: 7.9

  • Complex transformations

    Complex data transformations are data normalization, advanced data parsing, etc.

    Category average: 7.1

An alluring tool in offering cloud and On-premises data connectivity solutions across data sources.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Integration tools to get the most out of data. Helps to empower applications with enterprise data. Offers cloud and on-premises data connectivity solutions across relational, NoSQL, Big Data, and SaaS data sources. Performance, reliability, and security are at the heart of everything they design of many enterprises and are the leading in vendor analytics, BI, and data management.

Pros

  • Create a custom ODBC or JDBC Driver.
  • Access cloud and on-premises data.
  • Embed connectivity in an application or platform.

Cons

  • Seamless data access for BI and Analytics.
  • Helps you comply with industry standards.
  • Cloud and On-premises Data Access with Hybrid Data Pipelines.

Return on Investment

  • Create custom data access and security policies at a user level.
  • Integrate HDP into your app seamlessly with management and administration API's.
  • Hybrid Data Pipeline service can be deployed on multiple modes behind a load balancer.

Alternatives Considered

SAS Data Management Platform

Other Software Used

Fivetran

Progress Data direct ensures easy connectivity

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Progress data direct is getting used for data ingestion from salesforce into Data lake. Progress drivers are easy to use for batch ingestion from varied source systems. It got used by Spark, AWS to directly connect with Salesforce and load data into S3.

Pros

  • Providing JDBC connectivity to CRM applications
  • Raw data integration
  • Customer support

Cons

  • Support of SFDC bulk API for all objects
  • Version management
  • Backward compatibility

Return on Investment

  • Cost effective solution for data ingestion from CRM systems
  • Data quality ensured
  • Improved integrations

Other Software Used

AWS Glue, Apache Spark, Amazon CloudWatch