SnapLogic Releases New Features and Capabilities
Service-Enabled Applications Demonstrate Power & Flexibility
PORTLAND, OR (OSCON) – July 23, 2007 – SnapLogic, an Open Source data integration platform, has released a new, enhanced version of its flagship data services product. The new release provides important features and capabilities that simplify the problem of data integration. The update to the Beta version provides caching for increased performance plus JSON and familiar feed formats like RSS for enhanced data services. Licensed under the GPL v.2, SnapLogic is freely available for download at www.snaplogic.org.
Enhanced Data Services & Caching
JSON and RSS formats for SnapLogic data services allow AJAX applications and other browser-based clients to consume SnapLogic data services. This opens the door for SnapLogic to be used in an even wider range of integration scenarios. These new data service clients also benefit from the newly added caching capabilities that increase performance by serving results directly from cache.
"Adding JSON support to SnapLogic makes a whole range of Ajax applications easier to build," said Alex Russell, Dojo Toolkit project lead. "JSON support makes browsers first-class citizens for slicing, dicing, and visualizing enterprise data. Integrating it with Dojo's data access layer enables SnapLogic users to build more usable, responsive, and discoverable interfaces with pure Open Web technology."
Data Services for Popular Applications
SnapLogic has service-enabled four popular applications to demonstrate how these new capabilities can expose data services for integration and re-use. These applications include:
- SugarCRM datamart and analytics package
- Apache log aggregator that consolidates the logs of Apache server farms
- Enterprise mash-up of QuickBooks and Saleforce.com
Everything needed to service-enable these applications is available for download at http://packages.snaplogic.org/packages/.
“Once these applications were service-enabled, virtually every integration task became simple and straightforward,” said Chris Marino, CEO of SnapLogic. “Data services make consolidating log files and Web mash-ups a snap and even complex integrations like building a datamart are easier to design and maintain.”
SnapLogic Data Services Establish New Integration Paradigm
When applications become SnapLogic service-enabled, traditional problems of data integration disappear. Since data services can easily be produced, consumed and manipulated, integration can occur at the source, destination, in a browser, or anywhere on the network.
SnapLogic's Web-based approach allows data services to seamlessly span networks and organizations for true Internet data integration. “Increasingly, data integration occurs with partners and services that lie outside the firewall,” said Marino. “Our Web-based approach to data integration makes these kinds of integrations possible.”
SnapLogic at O’Reilly’s OSCON
SnapLogic is speaking at Portland’s OSCON on Thursday, July 26 at 11:35 AM and will demonstrate these service-enabled applications and integration scenarios which illustrate how SnapLogic’s resource-oriented approach solves the complexity of data integration.
About SnapLogic
SnapLogic is an Open Source Internet data services platform that uses the universal standards and technologies of the Web and applies them to the problem of data integration. SnapLogic transforms data into data services that can then be easily mixed and matched to satisfy any integration requirement.
Media Contact:
Molly Morelock
SnapLogic
Tel: 650.655.7200 ext. 1010
Cell: 510.917.0952
e-mail: molly@snaplogic.org