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Updated! Take Action as a Web Service v1.1 – May 30, 2008
Take Action as a Web Service (TAWS) helps align business intelligence with operational systems. With TAWS, business users can leverage BI context to securely interact with their enterprise business processes.
TAWS is a framework for hosting service-oriented actions and delivering web services targeted to business users. It is complementary to “Query as a Web Service”. While QaaWS helps deliver trusted BI to any web service-enabled application, TAWS enables secured operational updates from any web service-enabled application.
With this new 1.1 release, non-developer users have the ability to design writeback services that are more powerful than ever. The new Writeback designer, while remaining an easy-to-use graphical application, now allows the expression of constraints and advanced logic. Find out all the exciting new features of TAWS with Writeback Action!
What’s new?
- Web service input can now embed lists and have constraints checked at runtime. For instance, you can submit a set of prospects with confidence levels for one particular sales region, and at the same time ensure that confidence levels are expressed as numbers between 0 and 100.
- Advanced logic can be expressed in writeback scripts: conditional processing, looping… For instance, loop on the list of prospects and decide if they should go into the current pipeline based on the deal confidence level.
- Support for stored procedures. Leverage your legacy database business logic, as well as the full power of your RDBMS.
- And many more!
What are the benefits of using TAWS with Writeback actions?
- TAWS makes operational systems update accessible to anyone. Users can quickly create and publish simple SQL scripts using a graphical wizard without any programming knowledge.
- Easy web service consumption for report designers and power users. Published web services can be consumed by Xcelsius, Crystal Reports, Data Integrator, Web Intelligence reports, and any application that can consume web services.
- Enable immediate decision making and action for business users from a managed BI context.
- Easy integration into existing infrastructure and lower TCO thanks to SOA architecture.
- Secured write back operations by fully leveraging platform security.
- Published web services can be reused in business processes.
Take Action as a Web Service architecture
Take Action as a Web Service is based on W3C web services specifications SOAP, WSDL and XML and includes two components: the Take Action framework that provides methods and wizards to easily build and integrate new actions, and the Writeback action that will read script definitions and execute them using the supplied parameters on the target database.
Writing data back to the database adds a tremendous value to the BI content. Not only high value information is displayed, but the option is provided to directly interact with the data and take immediate action, while remaining in a secured environment.
How does it work?
Build your script with easy drag and drop with the graphical wizard.
Set execution rights on objects or folders.
Integrate in your report or application
And this is it!
Enjoy! We hope you’ll use this prototype to discover the many ways data write back can change the way people take decisions based on business intelligence content. Please give us feedback to make sure we know how you're using this and things you would like to see it do in the future. And remember, this is a prototype only and NOT for use in production environments.