Mertech driver enables Bank of America’s loan processing branches simultaneous, instant access to information.

Somentec Software, AG, a leading technology company, was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Langen, Germany with a subsidiary branch in Dresden, Germany. In order to keep up with the requirements of its growing customer base and to expand their offering to new markets, offering XAP with a proprietary database was no longer a viable business option for Somentec. "We chose Mertech drivers because they were the first and still the only company to offer us a stable driver for Oracle."

Palace Resorts, a privately-held luxury resort chain, was founded in 1985 with one hotel in Cancun, Mexico. The challenge for Palace Resorts was to move the database immediately to a more robust platform while maintaining its investment in its existing enterprise system developed with DataFlex without sacrificing on performance. The Mertech drivers provided preserved investment in existing applications, enhanced reporting, increase in data access speed and performance

KEH Camera Brokers is America’s largest dealer of used cameras and photographic products. They encountered challenges in inability to integrate with other applications and tools, inefficient file access across multiple operating systems, slow reporting and performance, etc. Mertech provided the solution to standardize on a single client/server relational database running on an open source platform, with out of the box replication support

USA Software has been providing software solutions since 1989 to law enforcement agencies of all sizes that need help managing information and improving communications. Our customer base was asking for a more standardized backend database such as MS SQL Server since many of these cities and counties were adopting MS SQL Server as their standard for other applications.We chose the Mertech product for its ease of use and its simplicity. We had tested it in-house in the past and knew of its speed and reliabili

Priefert Manufacturing, the Texas based ranch equipment maker with sales approaching $100 million successfully migrated their DataFlex application to MySQL, the most popular open source database. Using Mertech’s open ISAM to SQL Database Connectivity (ISDBC™) driver for MySQL and database migration tool, Priefert was able to move its entire corporate database to MySQL and run its existing application with MySQL without changing or recompiling a single line of code.

"With the Mertech driver, our DataFlex programs have direct access to our customer's existing Oracle database. Response times with both sets and individual record selections are as good, if not better, than native DataFlex or Oracle Forms in tables with 60 elements and more than 650,000 records. Mertech's optimization allowed us to use non-unique indexes and still see incredible performance."

Chafin, Goetz & Williams, Inc. (CGW) has been successfully developing and implementing total software solutions in the supply chain management arena for over ten years. "We closely studied the alternatives, but it quickly became apparent that Mertech's MS SQL Server and Oracle drivers were our best bet. We could see that Mertech's dedication and direction coincided with ours, and we could see that their technology was sound. The decision was easy once we found Mertech."

AINO, a Dutch IT Consulting firm, used Mertech's SQLFlex product to develop IWACO's WebApp-based application. Integrated Solutions Success with Mertech's SQL Server Driver Integrated Solutions Limited (ISL) is a developer of business applications in Hong Kong. It's flagship ERP system, MIS for Windows (renamed e-MPOWER), is widely distributed in Hong Kong, PRC, Korea, and Malaysia. It is based on Visual DataFlex and uses Mertech Data's SQLFlex to access data stored on the NT-based MS-SQL server database.

A.T. MEDTRA S.L is a leading provider of software for the management of employee health and prevention of employee risks. The company initially started offering its product with the DataFlex database. However, more and more frequently, the customers wanted an application that would run with their standard corporate database like Oracle, MS SQL Server and DB2. Mertech's drivers allow us to offer our applications with different databases without the overhead of source code changes.

Time Link delivers proven software and data collection solutions that increase productivity for companies looking to streamline their workforce management processes. At the heart of a flexible and scalable system is an open, client-server database. Mertech's High-Performance ISDBC Drivers for Oracle and MS SQL Server allow Time Link to offer a solid solution to its customers.

For the past two years, Mobil Oil Corporation has been engaged in a worldwide effort to standardize hardware and software platforms. After extensive research, Mobil found the most cost effective method of standardizing this mission critical application was not to replace it, but rather to migrate the DataFlex data to a Mobil standard Oracle server. Throughout Mobil's testing and database conversion Mertech provided exemplary support.

Colinear Systems is the recognized leader in Direct Commerce software for the Windows/SQL/Oracle platform. "Response can be deployed on MS SQL Server or Oracle. Both offer state-of-the-art database engine technology to provide the speed, reliability, and scalability our clients expect and demand from our direct commerce applications." "Mertech's MS SQL Server and Oracle drivers are the fastest, most efficient, and most reliable products of their kind."

ADS is a refreshment products wholesaler serving a thirteen state geography in the Northeastern part of the United States."As business continued to grow, it became apparent that we would soon need to upgrade our character-based programs to a GUI front-end and at the same time move to an open client/server database that would allow us greater flexibility to quickly respond to changing reporting needs." Mertech allowed us to migrate to the database platform of our choosing while leveraging our legacy systems

FAI Life relies heavily on customer and policy information stored in the Company's core life insurance administration system. This data must be accessible quickly and reliably, 24 hours a day. A move to a more mainstream database, while not losing the investment we have built over 10 years in our DataFlex application code, would not have been possible without the Mertech driver.

MOORE FORMULARIOS LTDA, a subsidiary of Moore Corporation of Canada, has purchased a 250-user ORAFlex license which will be deployed with its DataFlex character mode applications running with an Oracle 7.3.x for NetWare backend and Windows 95 clients. Moore has been testing ORAFlex with its existing DataFlex applications for several weeks and plans to go live with the new environment by the end of 1998. "ORAFlex provides us with a safe path to future expansion of our development environment."

Mertech Data Systems Inc., a leading vendor of middle-ware solutions for DataFlex, announced today that Defense Contract Management District International (DCMDI), a branch of the U.S. government, will deploy ORAFLex to integrate its existing contract management software with Oracle. ORAFlex is a database driver that allows existing DataFlex applications to work with Oracle RDBMS Servers without changing existing DataFlex programs.

Structure Products Europe (SPE), a division of General Electric Plastics, has purchased a 120-user ORAFlex enterprise license to be deployed with DataFlex. "OraFlex is for us the right tool to keep our existing applications and it also gives us the advantage of a GE standard, high performance Oracle database."

The ORAFlex driver from Mertech Data Systems has opened up new business opportunities for our company. No longer do we have to walk away from prospective clients whose corporate standards specify the use of Oracle. A case in point is our latest project where we are developing an interface between an Oracle based concrete plant system running on a NT server and our client's DataFlex-based accounting system running in a different part of the country on a Unix server.

Expandable Software, Inc. was formed in 1983 by a group of manufacturing and systems professionals. In 1998, Expandable started looking for an easy way of migrating their ERP software to MS SQL Server back-end, without investing heavily in rewriting existing programs. "We were very happy to learn that Mertech was about to release SQLFlex which would allow our Classic System developed in procedural DataFlex to co-exist with our new system, sharing the same MS SQL Server database back-end".