Valentina solutions are available for accessing data sources using ODBC and also acting as an ODBC data source. Please read more about specific operating system support.

• Valentina Studio products include ODBC connectivity. You can use Valentina Studio to access data sources by way of ODBC. This is supported on Windows and Mac OS X versions of Valentina Studio.
• Valentina ODBC ADK includes an ODBC driver that allows a local Valentina database to be accessed as a data source using ODBC. Valentina ODBC ADK is currently available on Windows. Valentina ODBC ADK for Linux and Mac OS X are currently under closed beta.
• Valentina server implementations (Valentina Office Server, Valentina Embedded Server) can be used as data sources using ODBC. This is currently only available on the Windows platform.

What is ODBC?

This short description is from the Microsoft website:

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is Microsoft's strategic interface for accessing data in a heterogeneous environment of relational and non- relational database management systems. Based on the Call Level Interface specification of the SQL Access Group, ODBC provides an open, vendor- neutral way of accessing data stored in a variety of proprietary personal computer, minicomputer, and mainframe databases.

ODBC Policy Statement

Because ODBC is primarily championed by Microsoft, ODBC connectivity on Apple Mac OS X and Linux does not have the same support. Many database vendors on Mac OS X for example, rely on third party licensed ODBC drivers.

Paradigma Software does not believe in relying on third party drivers to provide this core functionality to its product line. Paradigma Software believes that not integrating ODBC into a database vendor product strategy is not consistent with ready for business standards.