Notrix Composer

Use Notrix Composer to move data between Lotus Notes and any data source with NO PROGRAMMING. With a simple Notrix Composer Form, you build powerful links to enterprise data, maps fields, select records, calculate new fields and determine job frequency. Notrix Composer lets you choose how you will access your data: via a direct connection, an industry-standard API (ODBC), or via several, popular middleware access gateways.

With Notrix Composer, you get a Notes-centric, server-based product that lets you do rapid, bi-directional data interchange between Lotus Notes and any enterprise database. Supplied as a multiple-user licence, Notrix Composer includes: a flat file driver for access to legacy data; direct links to databases such as DB2/2, Oracle7, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server; ODBC access; interfaces to middleware access gateways such as IBMs DDCS/2, Information Builders EDA/SQL, and MDIs Database Gateway; and a Notes-to-Notes Transfer Facility for things like the easy archiving of Notes databases.

Notrix Composer consists of a set of program libraries and a Lotus Notes database that lets you call functions that interface with your enterprise data. The Lotus Notes database provided with Notrix Composer contains a server program that runs on the Lotus Notes server and fulfils requests for enterprise data. Requests are issued by clicking on one of the buttons on the supplied Lotus Notes Forms. Buttons are provided to Catalog Jobs, Schedule Jobs for later execution, and Run Jobs for immediate processing.

KEY FEATURES/BENEFITS

• NOTES-CENTRIC Takes advantage of the Lotus Notes infrastructure such as the Notes forms interface, the Notes Name and Address Book, the Notes Scheduler, and Notes security and replication. You don't need to learn external interfaces or utilities.
• WORKS WITH OVER 55 EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES via either direct links or with middleware access gateways from Information Builders, IBM, and MDI.
• CLIENT INDEPENDENT - Since Notrix Composer is a server-based data access tool, work can be accomplished from any Notes client.
• REQUIRES NO PROGRAMMING - Easy-to-use Notes Forms are provided to simplify data access and interchange tasks. There is no need to write separate programs, work outside of Notes, or structure SQL semantics to import or export data to and from Lotus Notes.
• EASY TO INSTALL You can install Notrix Composer and begin your data access jobs in under an hour.
• AUTOMATION OF EVENTS Notrix Composer features the Notrix Event Manger, an active information agent that lets you automatically trigger events within Notes or in related external applications.
• ON-THE-FLY DATA TRANSLATION Notrix Composer translates datatypes as data movement occurs, rather than making you specify how the translations are done.
• ROLLBACK OF UPDATES Bulk data transfers can be checked for data integrity in order to avoid corruption of consolidated data. Rollback of updates can be handled as a discrete entity.
• RECOVERY MECHANISM AND AUDIT TRAILS Notrix Composer maintains transactions logs; an important requirement in production environments where you need to monitor and audit data movement.
• EXTENSIBLE VIA A 4GL FOR NOTES Notrix Composer includes Notrix, an alternative to the complexity of the Notes API. Notrix is a tool for building Notes server add-in applications in a fifth of the normal time when working directly with the Notes API.
• HELP FOR THE JOB AT HAND An online help database, Notrix Online, is included with each copy of Notrix Composer to streamline the development process.
• CROSS PLATFORM Notrix Composer is available on both the OS/2 and Windows NT platform; future release will add UNIX and NLM.

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