S.W.I.F.T., an international banking consortium, will use Data Junction products to extract, clean and transfer bank data from ERP packages to the secondary Access database. From its inception last year, the program has grown to 292 VARs. Junction can read sequential data directly off a UNIX-mounted tape drive through a special interface. This eliminates the need to copy or FTP large volumes of data to a Windows-based network or workstation. This means no ODBC drivers or OLE DB service providers are needed to read or write data to MS SQL Server v7.0.
Junction now supports named pipes.
Because it conducts real-time reads and writes, the throughput is extremely fast. Using named pipes also utilizes server resources instead of workstation resources. Junction can sort and aggregate data records for OLAP and data mining projects, one of the product's most powerful features. Y2K date forwarding. The product includes over 20 special date and time functions to solve Year 2000 date remediation.