DataPortal(TM) Product Version 1.0.2 Launched April 4, 2005 - Presented at Gerber Scientific's "Innovation @ Work
DataPortal is a software solution that enables the immediate, effortless exchange of business data over the Web, without development." - Connection Concepts' President and CTO Gary Whitten makes presentation on DataPortal product
Hartford, CT (PRWEB) April 13, 2005 -- Connection Concepts, Inc. of Hartford
Connecticut and Washington, DC, have introduced Gerber Scientifics' "Innovation
at Work" partners DataPortal, (www.data-portal.biz) a product that enables the immediate
exchange of business data over the Web without a developmental effort.
President and Chief Technology Officer of Connection Concepts Gary
Whitten explains that "DataPortal can provide a standardized business
communication channel that facilitates the integration and automation of
business systems and processes without the need for unecessary data
conversions."
Whitten goes further "Before DataPortal, there had been no
standard for transferring business data without some development effort or prior
knowledge of the data. Business processing had yet to experience a revolution in
productivity comparable to that resulting from the introduction of the
Web.
"Previously, to exchange business data, systems must conform to
demanding Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) requirements, or programmers must
develop transfer schemes on a case-by-case basis. While XML is more general, it
remains inefficient because it still requires a data conversion effort and
increases the amount of data that must be transferred."
"As the web has
standardized and simplified the exchange of electronic documents, a similar
revolution could result from the standardization and simplification of a
business data exchange."
DataPortal and an overview of BDE (Business
Data Exchange); Whitten will be discussing "BDE" while meeting with Gerber
Scientific. He maintains that all components involved in a complete business
process (for example, an ordering system which may include inventory, shipping,
billing, and receiving sub-systems), should be able to work together seamlessly,
with effortless sharing of data.
Whitten also said, "This is where
DataPortal is a vital tool to drive business data exchange, and, subsequently,
business process integration."
Below are the topics that Whitten reviewed
for Gerber Scientific's "Innovation@Work" audience:
What is
DataPortal?
DataPortal is a new product that provides a standardized
framework for exchanging business data immediately and without developmental
effort.
DataPortal provides a more flexible and efficient alternative to
traditional EDI. While no formal universal standard of (a) BDE (business data
exchange) has previously existed, we're aware that many business system
operations involve the transfer of data from one Relational Data Base Management
System (RDBMS/Database) to another. Database data can serve as a natural and
common language (lingua franca) for business systems, making conversion to other
forms ( EDI, XML) unnecessary.
How does DataPortal work?
DataPortal
transfers a Database over the Web in its entirety, including both structure and
content, from a source Database to the destination Database without development
or prior knowledge of the source Database.
Similar to the
document-centric Web, DataPortal can be used to publish a complete Database
residing in any supported, standards-compliant Database system. The published
Database can be transferred, by an authorized client, to any other supported,
standards-compliant target Database.
The user requires only a DataPortal
Web URL; no development effort or explicit software installation on the client
is needed, if the DataPortal Applet client is used.
DataPortal provides
the kind of effortless business data transfer that is required to reduce or even
eliminate one of the barriers to the integration and automation of business
systems and processes.
The DataPortal Solution:
DataPortal transfers
business data in the form of database data, minimizing the need for unnecessary
conversions. DataPortal only needs to use the standard Web infrastructure and a
user requires only a Java-enabled browser and the URL of a DataPortal? server to
perform a transfer.
Business data can be transferred, shared and
exchanged over the Web using DataPortal immediately, without development effort
or need for unnecessary and costly data conversions.
DataPortal can
serve as a standard for business data communication, reducing both the cost and
time involved in business data integration.
DataPortal reduces barriers
to the widespread integration and automation of business systems.
For
more product information, please contact e-mail protected from spam bots for
information on the latest version of DataPortal and complimentary white paper
sent to your desktop. A white paper is also available on-ine, at www.data-portal.biz For more
information of a "live" demonstration of the DataPortal product, please contact
Senior Vice President William Raymond at the number and e-mail address below.
For media inquiries, contact HighViz Consulting Group at e-mail
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Connection Concepts - Data Portal
Contact Connection
Concepts, Inc.
Bill Raymond, Sen. VP of Marketing
PO Box 1223,
Farmington, CT 06034-1223
Tel: (860) 677-0249
Fax: (860) 678-1775
Toll-free: 1-800-382-2240
www.con2inc.com - www.data-portal.biz
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DataPortal "A web tool for agile business"
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