Composite Application Data Services™ simplify and accelerate virtualized access to popular enterprise applications and multi-dimensional data sources, as well as Web content.
Popular Enterprise Applications
For SAP, Oracle, Siebel, and Salesforce.com applications, Composite Application Data Services provide far more than simple access, adding value by delivering hundreds of the most common application objects such as invoices, shipments, customers, employees, and more out-of the-box in the form of pre-built views or data services.
Capabilities
- Pre-built Content – Frequently used business information already packaged with context, accelerating projects and reducing risks.
- No Coding - Eliminates programming and API complexities, saving you time.
- Non-invasive Access - No agents to install, no modification to your source application instance. Exposes metadata such as reference key information and field descriptions, enabling access to all APIs, RFCs.
- Supported Applications
- - Oracle E-business Suite
- - SAP R/3
- - Siebel
- - Salesforce.com
- Graphical OLAP Viewer – Displays complex multidimensional databases as relational structures unlocking this content to a wider SQL development community.
- MDX / SQL Conversion - Converts SQL statements in views and data services into optimized MDX for faster execution.
- Enterprise-wide Access - Open up SAP BW and Oracle Essbase sources to wider consumption and broader initiatives including Business Intelligence(BI) and Reporting, SOA Data Services, CDI MDM Hubs, Single Views, and more.
- Supported Applications
- - Oracle Essbase
- - SAP BW
- Access Web Content – Access data at the web presentation layer, it can also simultaneously capture all valuable business logic and metadata, for instance data verification, user login, presentation formats, etc.
- Enrich Data - Perform comprehensive transformation and “cleansing” logic that enriches the data completeness for higher quality data analysis and reliable results in the target application.
- Enterprise-wide Integration - Parse and integrate unstructured and semi-structured Web data with structured data from other enterprise sources, including relational databases, data warehouses and data marts, and packaged applications.
- Faster Development – Composite Application Data Services jumpstart any project that requires packaged applications’ data.
- Lower Risk – Data Services reduce the need for expensive, specialized resources, lowering the time, cost, and risk of developing powerful and data rich applications.
- Combine Information, On-demand – Leveraging the Composite Information Server, Data Services work together with or independently of vendor provided data warehouses such as SAP BW to mix and match information from across the company. Data Services provide an incremental development approach, reducing or eliminating the need for data warehouse schema or ETL changes.
Popular Multidimensional Data Sources
For SAP BW and Oracle Essbase, Composite Application Data Services expose these multi-dimensional sources in a relational paradigm enabling your broader SQL-skilled development community to leverage this important data in a far wider set of use cases and analysis tools.
Capabilities
Web Content
For Cloud and business-to-business (B2B) applications, and public Web content, Composite Application Data Services provides real-time access to the underlying database behind web pages and forms, including data tables, data structures and data types—all through the existing web interface with no need for direct database or API access.
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