CorasWorks Extends MOSS 2007(R) into the Enterprise 2.0 Arena.CorasWorks Debuts New Product at DevConnections LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- CorasWorks Corporation, the leading provider of software for developing collaborative solutions on Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. ([R]) SharePoint A Microsoft brand for software that enables a Web site to provide document and information sharing. SharePoint Team Services provides templates for setting up a Web site so that workgroups can share documents, calendars, announcements and postings. ([R]), announced the release of the CorasWorks Data Integration Toolset for SharePoint 2007 ("Toolset") at the DevConnections Conference in Las Vegas today. With the Toolset, users can connect to and integrate data from SharePoint 2007 and 2003 as well as from external data sources to build custom displays, composite applications 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. , and enterprise mashups. The Toolset offers the opportunity and ability to leverage SharePoint as the front-end for business data and business processes within an organization, no matter where the data resides. The Toolset is the first product to provide an efficient way for organizations to integrate data from various external sources into SharePoint. The Toolset creates a dynamic connection that "provides" the data in an XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. stream, creating dynamic connections that continuously feed information from the source(s). The sources could include 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. databases, remote SharePoint 2007 servers, SharePoint 2003 servers, or any web service-enabled application. The Toolset-enabled connections are flexible, allowing you to combine (or mashup) data from multiple SharePoint lists - whether on local or remote SharePoint servers - as well as data from multiple external data sources. Once the data has been provided in XML, there are several options regarding "consuming" or using that data. Organizations can: * Write their own custom displays against the XML using XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). or Java Script * Use one of the Toolset's pre-configured displays, which accept the XML feed. The Toolset currently includes two standard configurable displays--a grid display and a calendar display * Use third-party charting or display tools * Provide SharePoint data into other applications that support integration and display of XML data. "CorasWorks has always enabled organizations to design, build and manage an integrated workplace on the SharePoint platform without custom programming," said William Rogers There are several men named William Rogers (and similar spellings), among them:
To learn more about the CorasWorks Data Integration Toolset, please visit www.corasworks.net or CALL 1-866-580-3115 (toll free) or 1-703-797-1881 (for local or international). About CorasWorks CorasWorks[R] is the leading provider of software for developing collaborative solutions on Microsoft SharePoint. Our customers typically use our products to build web-based solutions such as portals, intranets, extranets, dashboards, and other business applications. For more information, visit www.corasworks.net. |
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