Microsoft ISV Gold Accomplice Layer2 today has appear V2.0 of its Billow Adapter archetype account to accommodate accumulated on-premise abstracts – e.g. files, SQL databases, ERP/CRM, SAP etc. – with the Office 365 cloud.
Hamburg / GERMANY, 2011-08-25 – Microsoft’s fresh billow accretion action Office 365 currently is activity to allure a lot of fresh customers. It allows companies of all sizes to advantage the accumulated ability of market-leading abundance accoutrement such as Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Office by artlessly subscribing to an online account to accommodate their advisers with an action brand band-aid for an affordable account cable rate.
Reap the allowances of both on-premise and billow applications
However, some apropos may abide on the bazaar apropos account reliability, abstracts security, abstracts ownership, acquiescence and affiliation of absolute on-premises technology investments. As a aftereffect abounding organizations today are not accommodating to absolutely jump into billow accretion yet. On the added duke they appetite to alpha demography advantage of the allowances of billow accretion with aboriginal projects, e.g. extranet accord portals. And absolutely there are opportunities, to acquire the allowances of both on-premise and billow applications, back starting amalgam deployments today.
Integrate on-premise files, SQL databases or SharePoint with Office 365 with a amalgam deployment
Layer2, as one of the arch providers of SharePoint add-ons in Europe and Microsoft Gold Certified ISV, today appear a fresh artefact adaptation 2.0 of its Billow Adapter for Office 365 and SharePoint 2010 to seamlessly accommodate about any accumulated line-of-business abstracts with the Microsoft billow – codeless and additionally bi-directional, if required. The Billow Adapter extends the SharePoint billow capabilities like adaptable admission from everywhere to absolute abstracts sets that will abide to abide aural the accumulated network.
Business Connectivity Casework for Office 365 and SharePoint Online
“While absolute affiliation accoutrement for SharePoint on-premise are not fabricated for cloud-based scenarios, Layer2’s Billow Adapter was abnormally developed based on the newest Microsoft Applicant Side Object Model (CSOM) API to break the specific challenges of broken systems in the billow afterwards any absolute admission to accumulated business abstracts and actual belted affection customization capabilities”, Frank Daske, Artefact Manager at Layer2, accented. “From the abstruse point of view, users are aloof accessing built-in SharePoint lists in the billow as some affectionate of replicated accumulation of their alien accumulated abstracts sources – a actual simple but acutely able admission to calmly accommodate all the accepted account features, e.g. views, lookups, search, managed metadata, attachments, RSS and email-based notifications, abstracts accession from several sources, or workflows on alien abstracts change afterwards any restrictions.” The artefact is based on years of acquaintance with SharePoint abstracts integration: The acclaimed Business Abstracts Account Adapter (BDLC), a agnate Layer2 artefact for SharePoint on-premise installations – back years has apparent abounding issues that still abide with alien lists appliance Business Abstracts Catalog and the Business Connectivity Casework in SharePoint 2007 and 2010.
Almost any blazon of alien abstracts accurate – codeless and bi-directional
The Billow Adapter 2.0 comes with abutment for about any absolute action abstracts antecedent drivers, e.g. ODBC, OLEDB, ADO.NET, files (Excel, XML, CSV), SQL databases like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, IBM DB2, IBM AS/400, IBM Informix, applications like Notes, Exchange, SharePoint on-premise, Active Directory, Dynamics NAV and CRM, SAP etc. No programming is appropriate to connect. The connector, a Microsoft Windows account application, is calmly installed anon aural the accumulated arrangement on any server or applicant with Internet connectivity and admission to the accumulated abstracts sources. No bureaucracy or customizing is appropriate in the Office 365 cloud. All SharePoint 2010 platforms are accurate as abstracts antecedent and destination, including on-premise and any hosted sandboxes.
Great business opportunities for Microsoft Office 365 partners
With its cost-free Accomplice Program Layer2 offers ally a authorization abatement of 30%, accurate leads in their region, chargeless NFRcomputer application versions for centralized use and abounding abutment for implementing Billow Adapter based solutions with their customers. The Billow Adapter for SharePoint and Office 365 V1.0 is accessible afterwards allotment as a absolutely chargeless Shareware adaptation at the vendor’s web armpit www.layer2.de/en/. V2.0 with bi-directional archetype will be accessible in backward summertime 2011 as Professional and Action Edition.
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Office 365, SharePoint Online, Abstracts Integration, Business Connectivity Services, alien data, BCS, database, OLEDB, ODBC, Excel, SQL, SQL Server, Exchange, Oracle, Informix, MySQL, IBM, DB2, ERP, CRM, SAP, Dynamics, Microsoft, Layer2
About Layer2
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Accomplice and ISV based in Hamburg (Germany), Layer2 is one of the arch providers of Microsoft SharePoint extensions in Europe with a above focus on Abstracts Integration, Collaborative Knowledge Management and Social Networking. Layer2 has additionally been accepted as a reliable accomplice to barter in Central Europe, alms added consulting and casework in the fields of SharePoint, .NET programming and IT basement for about 20 years.
