Composite Application Data Services 
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Composite Application Data Services™ enable instant access to packaged applications such as SAP, Siebel, and Oracle E-Business Suite, and deliver their content as pre-built, reusable data services.
Extracting data from packaged applications is not a trivial task. Specialized consultants are often needed to decipher these systems’ proprietary interfaces and data structures. Combining packaged application data with other data sources is even more challenging.
Composite Application Data Services unlock data from packaged applications and deliver it as standards-based Web services or SQL views. Composite Application Data Services abstract the most common business objects, such as Orders, Invoices, Customers, and more. This enables SOA-compliant applications, as well as traditional front-end applications such as a reporting tool, to consume the content, providing users with the visibility they need to effectively run their businesses.
Project Use Cases
Composite Application Data Services deliver immediate impact to a wide range of critical projects:
- SOA Data Services - Enterprises need to get SOA up and running quickly. Composite’s pre-built services provide out-of-the-box content in the form of standards based data services, accelerating your path towards SOA.
- Single View of a Customer – On-demand aggregation of operational and historical data about a given customer (or any other business object) across data sources improve visibility for sales and service professionals.
- Data Integration– Composite Application Data Services are read/write, enabling easy insert and update of key data, with all application business rules enforced, without a big infrastructure effort. Access, combine, and deliver information from disparate data sources, including Siebel, SAP, Oracle EBS and Salesforce.com.
- Operational Business Intelligence – Use Composite Application Data Services to power business intelligence, portal, and dashboard initiatives. On-demand information from packaged applications enables better management visibility and day-to-day business decisions.
- Master Data Access – Improve upstream data quality and reduce duplicate data entry by exposing “system of record” data to applications across your organization.
Pre-built Data Services
Composite Application Data Services are built on top of the Composite Information Server so you can leverage:
- Data caching - of frequently used data
- Access management - to the underlying system
- Administrative console - to monitor queries
- Connectivity tuning - for load management
- Metadata management - view procedure or table definitions
- High performance - faster than basic adapters, no XML transforms required
Advantages
Composite Application Data Services go beyond basic connectivity and offer many project advantages, including:
- 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 cost and risk of developing powerful and data-rich applications.
- Combine information, on-demand – Leveraging the Composite Information Server, Composite Application 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.
