What is the problem domain that Data Links addresses?
Estimates vary that between 70% and 95% of data resides in file systems rather than databases, and that the Internet has exacerbated this divide in favor of file systems. Current e-business trends such as e-commerce, supply chain management, and customer relationship management, require applications that can integrate content from various DBMS and file system sources, including unstructured data. Examples of such unstructured data are audio, video, and images traditionally stored in an assortment of file formats. Organizations are being challenged to support existing & emerging applications that utilize less robust file systems, while integrating the information in these file systems into the new applications of e-business. Data Links enables organizations to use their existing & emerging file system based applications by leaving them untouched, while enabling the same files to be integrated with database systems to meet the rigorous integrity, security and transactional demands of e-b
