CONNX Simplified Data Access via ODBC JDBC OLE DB .NET for RMS, Rdb, C-ISAM, VSAM, IMS, D-ISAM, Micro Focus, DBMS, Dataflex, POWERflex, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server

Case Studies

-	International Card Enterprises 'web-enables' its legacy applications with CONNX® and Oracle®
-	University of Lincolnshire And Humberside maximizes usability of existing databases with CONNX
-	ACC "Milks" the benefits of CONNX
-	Silentnight Group Empowers Users with CONNX
-	NHS Supply Chain "delivers" with CONNX

Silentnight Group Empowers Users with CONNX

Overview

Silentnight Group is the market leader in two sectors of the UK domestic furniture market – beds and assembled cabinet furniture. The Bed Division includes Silentnight Beds, Sealy and Rest Assured, well-known brands with high levels of consumer awareness. The Furniture Division includes the Ducal, Nathan, Stag and Homeworthy brand names and is the largest UK manufacturer of assembled cabinet furniture. Additionally it includes Parker Knoll, a leading upholstery brand. The portfolio therefore includes some of the UK’s best known furniture brands. The Group remains the largest carrier of furniture direct into UK homes, having the capacity to deliver nationwide at short notice.

The Business Challenge

Darryl Pettie, MIS Manager describes their situation:

"The group have been using an integrated manufacturing and financial application since 1992 running on OpenVMS using RMS files to store the business data."

"With the advent of business intelligence tools we needed a way of accessing the RMS files directly to empower the users to facilitate informed business decisions. This also enabled MIS to concentrate on new business development areas".

The Solution

"We evaluated CONNX for RMS against our existing ODBC driver which we found was slow and difficult to maintain. This meant we were unable to satisfy our users requirements."

"CONNX for RMS from Generix provided a fast, scaleable and easy to maintain solution"

"We have now been using CONNX since 1999 at eight of our businesses throughout the U.K"

Vendor Support

"Support from Generix has been excellent. During our evaluation, we found a requirement for a new data type, which CONNX quickly developed. Generix are always pro-active in providing us with information and help"

Benefits Achieved

CONNX enables the Silentnight Group to retain and exploit the investment in their existing applications.

CONNX provides seamless integration with their business intelligence tools from COGNOS.

CONNX offers high performance and cost effectiveness.

CONNX empowers our users enabling them to facilitate informed business decisions.

The Future

Silentnight Group are now investigating developing an Intranet / Extranet using CONNX to distribute and publish information.

CONNX SUPPORTS
RMS, Oracle Rdb, VSAM, IMS, C-ISAM, D-ISAM, Micro Focus, DB2, Oracle, Oracle DBMS, Dataflex, POWERflex, SQL server and any OLEDB or ODBC data source.

CONNX is used by more than 3000 organisations world-wide to enable enhanced reporting, business intelligence, web/application development, data warehousing, synchronization and migration.

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