Vantage provides a single data store for a variety of client architectures. This approach greatly reduces data duplication and inaccuracies that can creep into data that is maintained in multiple stores.
This approach to data storage is called the single version of the business, and Vantage implements this through heterogeneous client access. Clients can access a single copy of enterprise data and Vantage takes care of data type translation, connections, concurrency, and workload management.
The following figure illustrates heterogeneous client access, where mainframe-attached and workstation-attached systems can access and manipulate the same database simultaneously. In this figure, the mainframe is attached by channel connections and other systems are attached by network connections.
