Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global software company that
simplifies and enables the development and deployment of business
applications, today announced that Yamaha
Motor Europe has chosen the Progress®
DataDirect® SQL Server for JDBC driver to dramatically
increase page load speeds for its dealer website and improve overall
database access performance.
For commerce driven businesses with rich online content, high-speed data
access and web performance are critical factors in ensuring sales. The
Yamaha Motor site, for example, connects its 1,500 European dealers with
Yamaha distributors in 12 countries. Designed to help dealers quickly
order spare parts, as well as register warranties and process claims, it
is imperative that the site deliver an optimum user experience.
Yamaha encountered a database performance problem when it shifted from a
high-end application server to a virtualized environment to run its
dealer website. Because the existing database driver was limited, page
load times that used to take five seconds began to take 40 seconds. In
the test environment, the site and database crashed. An investigation
revealed that the drivers that accompanied the commercial database the
company was using were not able to operate efficiently enough to ensure
the kind of performance and speed that customers, distributors and
dealers had grown to expect from the website.
In order to alleviate the problem before the website went live, Yamaha
chose the Progress DataDirect for JDBC drivers to replace the
built-in drivers. Designed for optimal database access and performance
on virtual machines, this eliminated the need for database client
libraries, reduced administrative overhead of managing multiple vendors
and diminished the amount of excessive network ‘chatter.’
After implementing the new DataDirect for JDBC drivers, Yamaha’s
dealer website was able to function at 20 times faster than with the
other driver, increasing page load times by a factor of ten. The
database has stopped crashing and in terms of IT operations, the new
drivers are making possible a new level of infrastructure agility. The
database is no longer an obstacle to updating or replacing components of
infrastructure, such as application servers.
The DataDirect for JDBC drivers also made it possible to launch
the new dealer site in 12 different languages. Some of the countries
where Yamaha does business have UTF8 characters, while others have
Unicode. The DataDirect for JDBC drivers handled this discrepancy
effortlessly and made it possible to get the site up in all territories
easily.
Progress Software is the software industry’s leading comprehensive
provider of software for connecting the world’s most critical business
applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven
and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect
products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of
data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and
ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software
vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on Progress Software to
simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to
reduce the complexity of mainframe integration.
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“For users of our website, there are only two acceptable speeds for
the underlying application and database: fast and faster,” said Kees
Trommel, Division Manager Information Systems at Yamaha Motor Europe.
“DataDirect JDBC drivers help ensure that our website experience meets
customer expectations for quick and reliable transactions. We’re
excited to be able to boast that all of our pages now load in four or
five seconds.”
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“So called free or cheap drivers may seem like a cost saver, but in
fact, given the key role drivers plays in application infrastructure,
can significantly negatively impact the application and therefore the
business. In this case Yamaha was able to dramatically increase their
website performance and eliminate database crashes,” said Michael
Benedict, Vice President and Business Line Manager, Progress
DataDirect. “This is just one example of hundreds we see every year of
customers that are able to significantly enhance their application
performance, reliability and functionality by switching to our suite
of drivers.”
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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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