Enabling OpenVMS for Data &
Application Integration
*John Apps – HP Strategic Planning and Architecture
*Mark Peterson – Valassis Senior Database Analyst
*Richard Thomas – Attunity Engineer
*Terry Layo, VP of North American Sales
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www.attunity.com November 30, 2005
Agenda
Webinar overview – Terry Layo, Attunity
HP introduction – John Apps, HP
Technical story – Mark Peterson, Valassis
Technical presentation:
“Enabling OpenVMS for Modern, Standards-
Based Data & Application Integration”
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About Attunity
Attunity’s is an information integration vendor.
“We eliminate the barrier to enterprise data…
period.”
On-Demand access to any data source
Enable Real-Time business initiatives
Enable the organization to view information from multiple
sources
Exposing legacy data to web services and SOA
Long history with DEC - Compaq - HP
Support for Integrity Servers
QUICK ROI ON EXISTING INFORMATION ASSETS
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Attunity Connect Key Capabilities
Standard Access via SQL, Java, .NET, XML & Web Services
Single, Unified Model for Data Access:
Relational, Non-Relational
Procedures, Transactions, 3GL code
Full Read/Write and Transaction Support
Virtual Data Models and Data Access Services
Robust Security, Scalability, Performance
Easy to Use
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Data Federation using Attunity Federate
Single, integrated views of heterogeneous
data
Distributed query optimization and execution
at the source, read/write capable queries
Create simplified data models using Virtual
Data Base
Simplify system migration and consolidation
“Virtual Federation will augment BI data architecture.
Mature vendors of data integration and adapter technology
such as Attunity have possessed virtual data federation
capabilities for some time.” (Gartner)
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Enable OpenVMS for any Data Integration
Client Platform OpenVMS
ODBC Driver
JDBC Driver
Attunity Connect
Server
Java OLE/DB Provider RMS
ADO Provider SQL
Microsoft Engine
ADO.NET Provider Native
Adapter
Integration XML
Engine RDB
Brokers XML Client (HTTP)
Portals COM Client
Metadata
.NET Client
Reporting JCA 1.0 Client Transaction Mgmt
COBOL
JCA 1.5 Client Security
ETL / BI
Event Adapter
Web Services
Web Gateway
Services
Other 3GL
Event Router 3GL Client
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Attunity Federate – Functional Architecture
Business Composite
Portals
Intelligence Applications
Distributed SQL and XML
Federation Engine Interfaces
Distributed Metadata
Transaction Mngr
Virtual DB
Federated DB
Adapters Segmented DB
Legacy Relational / DW Apps
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Federating Data - Remotely
Client Application
1 Submit Query Return Result Set 5
(1MB)
2 Break to Sub-queries Join and Filter 4
Federation Engine
3 Retrieve the Data
5GB 1GB
Data Access Data Access
Server
ISAM Relational
30M Records 10M Records
15GB
50GB
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Federating OpenVMS Data - Locally
Client Application
1 Submit Query Return Result Set 5
(1MB)
2 Break to Sub-queries
3 Retrieve the Data Join and Filter 4
Data Access
Federation Engine
Data Access
Server
5GB 1GB
ISAM Relational
30M Records 10M Records
15GB
50GB
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Data Federation @ Valassis
Mark Peterson, Senior Database Analyst
Single Enterprise Views
Simplified Data Model
Superior Performance
Single Views
Virtual
DB
Sales Accounting Marketing
Information Programs
SQL
RMS Rdb
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On Demand Data Access @ Accuweather.com
Real-time Access to Weather Data
• 90 Meteorologist updating the system
• 65,000 paying customers in media, business and government with different views
Data Server – RMS on OpenVMS Cluster
• Backend systems of Open/VMS with difficult RMS file structures
• Server stability questionable with the move to .NET
Web Server – IIS on Windows Farm
• +10M Visitors Daily,+50M calls to Attunity Connect
Results
• Forecast updates now take 1 minute from 3 hours
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Questions?
*John Apps – HP Strategic Planning and Architecture
*Mark Peterson – Valassis Senior Database Analyst
*Richard Thomas – Attunity Engineer
*Terry Layo- [email protected]
781-213-5209
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