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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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- Terry.layo@attunity.com
781-213-5209
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