<p><!--[if lt IE 7]>--> end javascript to email the article M2 Communications</p><p>ENP Newswire - 23 August 2012</p><p>Release date- 23082012 - Bedford, MA- Progress Software Corporation(NASDAQ: PRGS), a global software company that simplifies and enables the development and deployment of business applications, is offering a limited-availability preview program of its latest data connectivity innovation to be added to its premium data connectivity driver portfolio - a new, high-performance DataDirect Connect XE for ODBC driver for Hadoop Hive to enable reliable, secure and highly-scalable connectivity to multiple distributions of Hadoop.</p><p>In today's world of massive volumes of data (aka 'Big Data'), organizations are increasingly using Apache Hadoop open source software to allow them to more easily process these huge amounts of data. Also, many organizations are using Apache Hive data warehouse for data summarization, query and analysis. However, data comes in many forms and organizations need the ability to perform additional analysis in real-time using their existing SQL-based business intelligence and data analytics tools. This means they need a highly flexible and rock-solid connection to these tools. Without such connectivity, companies' analysts and decision makers are locked out of the insights contained in the Hadoop-based data warehouse.</p><p><a href="http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-08-23&val=408864&cat=tech">Keep reading...</a></p>
