 Enterprise search engines and portals do not typically tap into line-of-business applications and give end-users access to business data directly. The Business Data Catalog (BDC), a major new feature of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) let end-users do just that but with certain important limitations:
Integration into back-end applications remain an IT burden
The data presented are lists of entities (e.g. vendors, customers, employees, etc.), not insights into your business performance
Longitude brings the BDC to the next level by connecting to any back-end applications out-of-the-box and deliver business intelligence at your fingertip. Business users can search for a vendor and get information not only about the vendor profile, but also the vendor spend for the year by product category which will help in the supply contract re-negotiation. Or search for a customer support request number, and review the # of outstanding issues and effort expended to date on current request. None of these critical business scenarios are possible without Longitude.
Data Sheet: BA-Insight's Longitude for BDC Applications Data Sheet
Webcast: Deliver Business Intelligence in a search result - (12 Minutes)
White Paper: Longitude for BDC Applications Technical Architecture (coming soon)
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