Composite Studio is a powerful graphical development environment for modeling data, designing queries, connecting data sources, setting security controls, and monitoring results. The Composite Studio provides a GUI tool that allows users to create Composite data services in the form of SOAP-compliant WSDL web services or SQL views. These data services access, combine, and abstract data from disparate data sources for delivery to a variety of applications. The Composite Studio enables users to:
- Easily build Composite data services using intuitive point-and-click, drag-and-drop icons
- Combine Composite multiple data services to form additional higher-order data services hich may provide a more comprehensive or versatile view of corporate data
- Maintain and monitor Composite data services for optimal execution by the Composite Information Server
Composite Information Server (CIS) is a multi-threaded, Java-based server that accesses existing data non-invasively, combines disparate data, abstracts and simplifies complex data, and delivers it via data services or relational views.
Data services built and deployed on the Composite Information Server provide a practical approach to services-oriented architecture (SOA). Composite data services form a middle layer of reusable services in a tiered approach that insulates applications from the physical implementation of the data. Composite data services provide information in the form that users need to see it, regardless of how or where it is stored, and even if the data spans multiple sources. Further, CIS delivers data on demand, without compromising performance or security.
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.
