eSnap™, from 3H Technology, is an Enterprise Information Integration platform that federates widespread and disparate data sources (e.g. directories, files, databases), enabling users to search and retrieve information via a simple point-and-click web interface. Applications and other technology investments that run on different databases (such as MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server), on different platforms (such as Windows and Unix), and have different interfaces, can be easily integrated and leveraged using eSnap™. By providing a centralized framework linking these resources, eSnap™ acts as a portal or common gateway to information scattered throughout a network. Legacy applications become “web-enabled” without having to be rewritten, and data can be viewed and reports generated in a consistent way.
eSnap™ is built around a concept called a “snapin,” which is the foundation for the particular data views that a customer requires. eSnap™ extracts information directly from the various data sources, formats it “on the fly” and presents it in real-time. The search and retrieval process takes seconds. eSnap™ also provides “dynamic security,” which enables a district to allow certain users to have limited access to information, rather than presenting an “all or none” security model.
Key Features
eSnap™ is a software framework, not an application.
Supports applications and enterprise portals that display and analyze data across multiple data sources; plays a key role in creating an enterprise e-architecture.
eSnap™ provides an enterprise-scale, integrated approach.
Provides a common framework upon which all links may be built; enables a cost-effective, centralized administration of data from multiple sources and a flexible presentation/analysis of more data sources.
eSnap™ handles semi-structured content and unstructured content.
Manages semi-structured data sources, such as data sources with little or weak structure (e.g., web services data sources or web applications).
Provides the ability to search unstructured content, integrated into the toolset and provides crawling and indexing capabilities for flexible unstructured-information querying.
eSnap™ offers intelligent connectors to web services data sources.
Provides access via a web interface; this facilitates the construction of a highly flexible SOA architecture, where data access is exposed as a service for all applications.
eSnap™ supports web applications.
Provides a structured view of data behind a dynamic web page, so information from external websites can be seamlessly incorporated in the relational data model and can be queried by means of powerful SQL sentences.
