200+ Hospital Applications to be Converted Using DataDirect
OpenAccess Software Development Kit
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider,
has announced that University Hospital Leuven, the largest hospital in
Belgium and one of the largest university hospitals in Europe, has
selected DataDirect
OpenAccess software development kit (SDK) to enable it to
cost-effectively migrate its database to improve information exchange
with other hospitals with minimal downtime.
The University Hospital Leuven is supported by a centralized IT
infrastructure that serves itself and eight other hospitals; they
determined they needed to improve the information exchange between each
of the hospitals and began a project to migrate their infrastructure
from an existing Sybase database to an IBM DB2 system by the end of the
year (2012). The DataDirect OpenAccess SDK was selected because it can
convert more than 200 of the University Hospital applications to DB2,
while minimizing downtime to less than one hour.
The Progress DataDirect OpenAccess SDK is the industry's leading driver
development kit that enables the development of custom drivers for any
data source. Whether the data source is a proprietary file format or
API, Open Access SDK can be used to make it SQL-accessible from ODBC,
JDBC, OLE DB or ADO.NET compliant applications.
Reinoud Reinders, IT manager for Infrastructure & Operations at
University Hospital Leuven, said: "In addition to high-quality
healthcare, information exchange is at the core of our business, which
means that finding the right solution was of great importance to us.
Each of the applications to be migrated are used by physicians at the
hospital and are extremely important, therefore any disruption to the
way they work would have a significant impact on the hospital."
Reinders continued: "If done incorrectly, medical records could be mixed
up, patient files become unavailable and the hospital could even be
forced to shut down, denying patients much needed medical care. For us,
the DataDirect OpenAccess SDK from Progress Software is the perfect
solution and makes a virtually impossible transition not only possible,
but also simple and easily verifiable."
Michael Benedict, vice president Product Management, Progress Software
said: "We are delighted that the University Hospital in Leuven selected
the Progress DataDirect OpenAccess SDK. We're looking forward to working
with them on the project, and we're confident that they will benefit
from its high performance and feature-rich functionality."
Progress Software offers the most comprehensive line of software for
connecting the world's most critical applications to data and services,
running on any major platform, using standards-based interfaces such as
ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. For DataDirect customers, the
company's best-in-class middleware components have become a strategic
part of the software development process and IT infrastructure. More
than 350 independent software vendors including seven of the top 10
vendors worldwide, and thousands of corporate IT departments rely on DataDirect®
products to simplify and streamline data connectivity for on-premise
and Cloud-based systems.
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) simplifies the development,
deployment and management of business applications on-premise or on any
Cloud, on any platform and on any device with minimal IT complexity and
low total cost of ownership. Progress Software can be reached at www.progress.com
or 1-781-280-4000.
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Progress Software Corporation
Rachel Harnden, +44 (0)1344 386 387
rharnden@progress.com
@ProgressSW
or
Progress
Software
John Stewart, +1 781-280-4101
jstewart@progress.com
@ProgressSW
or
LEWIS
PR
Jon Brigden, +44 (0)207 802 2626
Jon.Brigden@lewispr.com
or
Lillian
Dunlap, +1 617-226-8881
progresssoftware@lewispr.com
Source: Progress Software Corporation
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