HydraSDO provides a single point of access for read and write operations on enterprise data sources, making them available through the standardized Service Data Object (SDO) API.

After the data has been exposed by the simple XML-style SDO interface, it can be used by any application as a real-time service. Application developers can use the SDO API, without having to know multiple data formats (FIX, SWIFT, SEPA, HL7, X12, MiFID, etc.) and the underlying connection mechanisms.