Interface design: SolMan to DB through PI

Dear Gurus,

There's a requeriment where a user need to get some information immediately in Solution Manager and that information will be obtained from a database.

My first question if it is possible to SolMan get directly connected to this Database (it's an Informix DB)? If so, how?

As a DB connection is asynchronous I understand that it will be easily to PI to use a sender JDBC adapter and send the information to SolMan (maybe via RFC) but the issue here is that when the user requires the data it should be done in the moment. Any clues or ideas?

Thanks!