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Biographical Information

Jesse Davis

As senior engineering manager for the Connect and Shadow z/Direct product lines from Progress DataDirect, Jesse Davis is responsible for DataDirect’s future product development initiatives in these areas. Jesse has lead development efforts for a number of DataDirect Connect products, and has developed core modules for the Connect for ODBC and Connect for JDBC product groups. His Twitter ID is @jldavis007.

Articles By Jesse Davis

Moving Mountains of Data without Sacrificing Performance

With the increased merging of disparate core business systems in the enterprise - as well as the emergence of additional systems in the form of enterprise resource management, customer relationship management, hierarchical storage strategies, and other business-driven initiatives - many companies today find themselves moving mountains of data on a daily basis. Business intelligence (BI) initiatives in particular typically rely on data warehousing strategies to provide critical information and reports to management in support of business decisions. Such strategies often require the timely transfer of enormous amounts of data from line-of-business systems. Too much time taken in data transfer can adversely impact a company's agility and could mean lost windows of business opportunities. It can also encroach on processing resources better devoted to core business applications.

Posted 11 Jan 2010 / January 2010 Issue

Moving Mountains of Data without Sacrificing Performance

With the increased merging of disparate core business systems in the enterprise—as well as the emergence of additional systems in the form of enterprise resource management, customer relationship management, hierarchical storage strategies, and other business-driven initiatives—many companies today find themselves moving mountains of data on a daily basis.

Posted 12 Jan 2010 / January 12, 2010 Issue