Replication-based data platform for SAP clients

LAS VEGAS: Simplement, Inc., the maker of the Data Liberator for SAP customers, and Lightning Tools, a player in Business Data Catalog solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, announced at the SharePoint Conference 2009 an integrated offering that allows SAP customers to put their data into the SharePoint Business Data Catalog in as little as five minutes.

“Simplement focuses on data sourcing and the data platform to provide SAP customers with interoperability to third party applications,” said Robert MacLean, founder of Simplement. “Together with Lightning Tools, we now provide a best-of-breed solution to get SAP data into the SharePoint Business Data Catalog. We’re giving Lightning’s loyal developer base the data they want, without their having to get extensive SAP training.”

“SAP has always been a difficult area for us due to the deep knowledge required of the SAP platform before you can even start thinking about the BDC side of things,” said Brett Lonsdale, Director of Lightning Tools. “By making SAP data available through Microsoft SQL Server, that opens up SAP data to SharePoint as well as all of your general .NET applications without developers having to learn about SAP.”