ODBC Router Executive Briefing
ODBC Router is software that increases the effectiveness of your organization by connecting ODBC-ready applications that you've licensed or developed for Macs, PCs, iPhones and Linux web servers or appliances with all of your enterprise databases at the same time, in real-time. ODBC Router works with both retail applications like Excel and FileMaker Pro as well as your own custom desktop, iPhone and web applications.
Why Did We Create ODBC Router?
The main database vendors have never wholeheartedly supplied drivers that support Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) on non-Windows platforms. Alternative solutions such as third-party drivers, virtual machines, XML and JSON can be costly to deploy and support as operating systems and technology shift from year to year. Yet all applications on all platforms, even web and phone based apps, need enterprise database access for the organization to leverage its maximum potential. Without ODBC Router, developers must forever tie the code of their apps into something like MySQL (which has lost its original developers and now is maintained by the leading for-profit competitor) or the IT staff must install ODBC drivers on all of the various types of computers in the enterprise for each specific version of the every brand of database in use, further maintaining them every time a security or other server-side update is applied. What's more is that to meet iPhone and iPad initiatives that look to greatly supplant much of the Web, an ODBC Router provides further value by eliminating capacity-reducing server-side "SQL-to-JSON (or XML) marshaling" and, in some editions, by including a database-driven Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) provider.Product Background
ODBC Router was originally born in the 1990s to enable graphical applications on Macs to access mainframe and minicomputer databases. As the free client-side components were ported to Windows, ODBC Router also began to solve the significant IT support issues that otherwise plague traditional client/server apps. Later on, the components were ported again to Linux to enable web applications and IT appliances to also interact with non-Linux databases. Today ODBC Router is blazing ahead with iPhone/iPod and iPad support and is now used by Fortune 500 companies, world governments and startups alike.
