Do your customers need to easily create reports using tools like Crystal Reports, Brio, Impromptu, Microsoft Access, and others? Do your customers need to quickly analyze data using tools like Microsoft Access, Excel, Brio, and others?
EII, EAI, and analytics platforms provide features to integrate data from various sources and perform processing on this data. They also provide custom presentation tools that allow users to implement a GUI and reports. But many fail to provide the connectivity required to get data into popular tools like Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Business Objects and many others. These tools require ODBC, OLE DB or JDBC connectivity in order to bring data in without any custom programming (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Access to Data from Your Platform
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