Composite Software, an enterprise information integration (EII) leader, released its newest product - Composite Application Views. For the first time, users can query live SAP and Siebel data from any reporting tool, including Microsoft Excel. Composite Application Views simplify access to complex packaged applications, accelerating dashboard, single-view, ad hoc reporting, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and master data projects.
Composite Application Views consist of hundreds of pre-built views of key business information such as customers, products, orders, employees and more. Working with the award-winning Composite Information Server, the business data appears in the form of traditional relational tables, which can be queried, filtered and combined with other sources from across the organization. Many views also support read/write operation. Composite Application Views leverage the security rules and business logic of each source application, preserving data and process integrity.
Packaged applications from SAP and Siebel help manage key processes for thousands of corporations around the globe. Customer, product, inventory, invoice, order and employee information that resides in these applications is essential to helping a company report, analyze and improve its operations. However, retrieving live data via complex, proprietary interfaces, and combining that data with other systems, can be costly and time-consuming. Unlike low-level adapters, Composite Application Views enable developers and analysts to navigate and browse applications using common business terms and a standard, well-known approach (SQL). As a result, knowledge of specific underlying interfaces (e.g., SAP BAPIs) is no longer required.
