Composite Software Adds SOA Data Services for SAP BW to Company's Popular Line.Data Services Enable Customers to Accelerate SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. and Reporting Projects that Require SAP Information SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Continuing the success of its data services for popular applications such as SAP, Siebel, Oracle E-Business Suite A group of integrated Internet-based applications from Oracle. Introduced in 2001 as Version 11i, it includes modules for CRM, finance, human resources, supply chain management as well as applications for business intelligence. and Salesforce.com, Composite Software, Inc. today released its newest Composite Application In computing, the term composite application expresses a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. People often compare composite applications to mashups. Data Services[TM] for SAP Business Information Warehouse SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) is the name of the Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing (DW) solution which is one of the major enterprise software applications produced by SAP AG. (BW). Customers can now bring forward historical information from SAP BW and other existing systems into a service-oriented environment. These reusable services, which leverage Composite's award winning Enterprise Information Integration (EII (Enterprise Information Integration) Similar to an EIS (executive information system), an EII aggregates current information from all data sources within an organization. ) technology, help enterprises simplify access to complex packaged applications, and thereby accelerate dashboard, single-view, ad-hoc reporting and service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA) projects. Composite Software is the only Data Services solutions company to provide pre-built data services for the world's most commonly used packaged applications. Composite Application Data Services for SAP BW allow more users to easily access SAP BW data. Additionally, SAP BW data can be combined with data from disparate sources and delivered as reusable data services to enable users to easily build operational reports and other business-critical information applications. Composite Application Data Services for SAP BW access data with vendor-approved Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs) using SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , eliminating the weeks and/or months of coding typically associated with these projects. Feature highlights offered by Composite Application Data Services for SAP BW include: * Service-enabled SAP BW - Enterprises can now publish views into SAP BW as SOA data services with just a few clicks of the mouse. This includes automated WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. generation. * No MDX (MultiDimensional EXpressions) A multidimensional query language. MDX uses syntax similar to SQL, but whereas SQL is used to query relational tables, MDX is used to query multidimensional cubes (OLAP databases). See SQL and OLAP. - Access SAP BW with SQL-92 syntax. Multi-dimensional concepts such as Slicers and Hierarchical Ordering are fully supported. * InfoAreas and InfoObjects - Access BW InfoProviders, Query Cubes and Hierarchies. * Non-invasive Access - Does not require transports to install, and there is no reconfiguration necessary. * Data Integrity - Enforce defined user authentication See authentication. and visibility rules. All access points are SAP-sanctioned Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). * Time-Dependent Queries - View historical snapshots of data from any point in time. * Flexible Queries - Leverage execution options such as "leafNodes," "allNodes," "orderBreaksHierarchy," "keyDate," "includeEmptyRows" and "includeEmptyColumns" to extract the required data from SAP BW. Examples of typical projects that benefit from Composite Application Data Services include operational dashboards that combine long-term trends from SAP BW with status information from mySAP. Other projects include call center applications requiring a single view of customer data from Siebel and Salesforce.com; inventory visibility systems requiring data from SAP and Oracle E-Business Suite; and pharmaceutical drug discovery R&D requiring data from SAP as well as in-house scientific data sources. "The data locked inside SAP is extremely valuable," said Robert Eve, vice president of marketing at Composite Software. "SAP BW is a great first step in delivering this data, thereby enabling businesses to compete more effectively. Composite Data Services for SAP BW provides the next big step by enabling this data to be combined with other non-SAP data in a service-oriented approach that accelerates competitive responsiveness. Only Composite delivers this advantage." Composite Application Data Services for SAP BW are available immediately from Composite Software. Composite Application Data Services, formerly named Composite Application Views, require the Composite Information Server (CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S ). Pricing is based on required processing power and size of deployment. For more information, visit http://www.compositesw.com/products About Composite Software Composite Software, Inc.[R] is the SOA data services leader. Composite data services are the fastest path for delivering existing data to next-generation applications. With Composite's award-winning Enterprise Information Integration (EII) technology, high performance information server, easy-to-use data services development suite, and pre-built applications services, enterprises can build applications faster without worrying about data location and complexity. And only Composite lets users leverage existing data assets and reusable data services across both SOA and legacy environments, simplifying SOA migration and improving business responsiveness while lowering costs and SOA risks. Composite's products are proven at more than 100 large enterprises, including four of the top five US investment banks The following is a list of investment banks Financial conglomerates Large financial-services conglomerates combine commercial banking and investment banking, and sometimes insurance. . Composite's technology is embedded by Cognos, Informatica, BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. and others. Founded in 2002, Composite Software Inc. is a privately held, venture-funded corporation based in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.compositesw.com. Composite Software, Composite Information Server and Composite Application Data Services are registered trademarks or trademarks of Composite Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. |
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