Stone Bond Upgrades Metadata-Driven Integration 
Stone Bond Technologies is shipping an upgrade to its metadata-driven agile integration platform. Enterprise Enabler 7.0 adds features to improve dashboards, BI, analytics and data sharing across various enterprise apps, including SharePoint, SAP, SalesForce.com and those using DB2 and SQL.
Stone Bond Technologies has updated its metadata-driven agile integration platform. Enterprise Enabler 7.0 adds features to improve dashboards, BI, analytics and data sharing across various enterprise apps, including SharePoint, SAP, SalesForce.com and those that use DB2 and SQL.
Using Enterprise Enabler, end users can build connectivity, create relationships across multiple sources, and map them to an ADO.Net object without the need to write code, according to Anjaneyullu Tamma, Stone Bond’s VP of Development
Prior to these latest integration extensions for SharePoint, “The time, money and complexity of maintaining custom integration solutions simply was not viable,” Tamma said in a statement. “The coding barrier, as we like to call it, has become the black hole which has long determined the logical end of many integration projects, some not even attempted and others terminated without completion.”
Enterprise Enabler 7.0 simplifies data sharing across various enterprise environments, using metadata-driven integration architectures and components the company calls AppComms. These AppComms provide connectivity mechanisms to communicate with various applications and data sources.
Conventional integration adapters work via a predetermined source, destination, and mapping. AppComms are designed to leverage metadata, provide always-on streaming and provide these efficient and agile integration features:
Automate the discovery of data schema for any application or data store. Once discovered, AppComms save the data schema as metadata, providing the capability of a virtual connection with real-time and on-demand access to the data. Since the schema information is stored as metadata, it’s never necessary to compile and deploy assemblies when creating or modifying a dynamic data model.
Decouple knowledge of how to connect to a particular type of application or data source. Because AppComms are metadata driven, they can be easily reused for physical or logical connections.
“The coding barrier has… long determined the logical end of many integration projects, some not even attempted and others terminated without completion
Anjaneyullu Tamma,
Vice President, Development
Stone Bond Technologies
Enable bi-directional, and real-time data flows. AppComms offer intelligence and adaptability as core aspects of its ability to use shared, native metadata end-to-end across an entire integration project.
Enterprise Enabler 7.0’s improved capabilities are enabled through a standard ADO.Net interface. This approach eliminates much of the backend complexity of SharePoint integration, and means there’s no need to stage databases because Enterprise Enabler provides real-time access to data aligned and merged from numerous sources, according to Tamma.
As to how it works, Tamma said the upgrade means that by simply reading and writing to the Enterprise Enabler ADO.Net driver, data access and transformation can be handled automatically behind the scenes. This approach provides the same access to data across all WSS that’s available in SharePoint 2010’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) -- including write-back to data sources with full CRUD (create, read, update and delete) capabilities, he added.
Enterprise Enabler 7.0 supports WSS 2.0/3.0 (Windows SharePoint Services), SharePoint Foundation 2010 (WSS 4.0), (MOSS) Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007, SharePoint 2010 and just about any DOT.Net based application. Enterprise Enabler 7.0 also extends all SharePoint connectivity to access any data source, such as web services, Microsoft .NET Objects, MS Dynamics CRM, and MS Dynamics AX.
