In today's competitive landscape, businesses require immediate, real-time insights into their customers, market dynamics, and overall business operations. Access to real-time data empowers business leaders to make faster, data-driven decisions. However, due to the distribution of enterprise data across multiple platforms, formats, and locations, many organizations struggle to identify new revenue opportunities or respond swiftly to emerging threats.

Traditionally, businesses have relied on Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes to transfer data into a data warehouse. ETL-related data movement consumes nearly 20% of total mainframe processing capacity. This approach is no longer efficient or responsive enough to meet the demands of real-time advanced analytics, cloud integration, and mobile applications.

Enter Rocket Data Virtualization, a solution that resides directly on the mainframe, providing real-time access to mainframe data in any format. This empowers your IBM zSystems to drive digital transformation by delivering real-time data for mobile, cloud, and analytics.

With Rocket Data Virtualization, you can streamline the process of accessing and analyzing enterprise data, creating virtual views and simple SQL statements that offer quicker insights into customer buying preferences, service issues, and real-time security threats. You can also build new workloads or enhance existing ones.

What's more, the vast majority (over 90% in many cases) of Rocket Data Virtualization processing takes place on the IBM zSystems Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) mainframe specialty engine, significantly reducing your mainframe Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Key Features: Rocket Data Virtualization on the Azure Marketplace offers a range of benefits, including:

• Seamless data integration: Our data services layer seamlessly integrates and JOINS data from mainframe and other data sources in real time. The solution makes it easy to leverage the power of SQL to analyze and process data.
• Developer-friendly abstraction: Rocket Data Virtualization provides a simplified layer of abstraction, shielding developers from the complexities of unique data implementations. It allows access to almost any data through SQL, NOSQL, and REST interfaces.
• Robust metadata: Maintains a metadata catalog that tracks data location, availability, and type, and name.
• Write-Back support: Support transactional APIs that write back to the original data source on the mainframe making it easy for developers to update those data sources without needing to know the original data source.
• Many-to-many flexibility: Our solution doesn't mandate a specific API or schema; it supports SQL, NOSQL, REST, and other APIs to ANY of its vast catalog of data sources including all the complex mainframe data sources.

With Rocket Data Virtualization, you can accelerate your journey to modern systems of engagement, gain immediate insights into your customers and business operations, and reduce the costs and complexities associated with mainframe data access.