Gearing up for its March 27 release of EDA/SQL 4.0, Information Builders Inc, New York, is integrating products from Tivoli Systems Inc, Visigenic Software Inc and Momentum Software Inc. Information Builders will license Momentum Software Inc’s X*IPC message-oriented middleware and embed it with the EDA/SQL middleware architecture. Information Builders will also sell the resulting combination of n-tier applications as one product. It will run under AIX, SunOS, UnixWare, Solaris, Irix, Digital Unix, OS/400, MVS/CICS, OS/2, Guardian, Windows and Mac OS. Information Builders will work with Tivoli to build an Enterprise Data Access adaptor for the Tivoli/Enterprise Console, T/EC, an automation console that collects, processes and initiates responses to system, application, network and database events. The planned adaptor will correlate Enterprise Data Access events as part of T/EC’s event management architecture, and trigger actions to alert administrators when needed. It may be available integrated with EDA/SQL 4.0, or released separately, an official said. Information Builders has also teamed up with Visigenic Software Inc, San Mateo, California, to build Open Data Base Connectivity drivers that will enable Enterprise Data Access users to access data from Unix, Macintosh and OS/2 systems. The company will develop the Open Data Base Connectivity drivers with Visigenics’ ODBC Software Development Kit. The drivers will support AT&T Global Unix, AIX, HP-UX, Santa Cruz Unix, Sun OS and Solaris. The new products will be added to the EDA/SQL 4.0 architecture. Furthermore, Information Builders is developing new Enterprise Data Access server engines and agents for the Tivoli Management Environment.
Third party schemas
Initially available with Unix support, these will cost from $1,500 to $14,000 per server, and be released in the second quarter of 1996. Information Builders has also built a middleware product that eliminates the need to access databases. EDA/Exchange is middleware that transfers meta data and other design data between repositories and software engineering tools and the Enterprise Data Access catalogue on the server. This enables catalogues to be generated from third party schemas and modelling data, and enables the automatic creation of Enterprise Data Access models. EDA/Exchange supports software engineering tools, dictionaries and repositories, and will offer interfaces to Enterprise Data Access data sources. EDA/Exchange will take as input the standard export file for these tools and perform checks, and then process the information for output to target Enterprise Data Access servers. It can also read Enterprise Data Access catalogues and produce input required to create a model or repository entry, the company says. It makes repositories and other tools more accessible, and gives the same interoperability at the meta data level as EDA/SQL offers at the data level, an official said. EDA/Exchange will be released in the second quarter of 1996 and costs $20,000. Logic Works Inc, of Princeton, New Jersey, and Information Builders are developing a CDIF-based interface for EDA/Exchange and Logic Works’ data modelling tool, ERwin. Dubbed ERwin/ERX, the product will enable Enterprise Data Access catalogues to be generated from ERwin, and will provide management for relational and non-relational EDA/SQL structures.
