Welcome to Lightning Tools
Lightning Tools Ltd is the market leader in Business Data Catalog solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
What is the BDC?
‘Business Data Catalog’ (BDC) is new to SharePoint. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) enables you to connect SharePoint to your Line of Business data. You can connect to backend databases such as SQL, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and Web Services in order to bring data into SharePoint. SharePoint can be used to display and search the data, and use the data in List or Library Columns.
How Lightning Tools can help.
Lightning Tools can help you with a complete end to end BDC solution. From tools to help you integrate your Line of Business data, to web parts to display this data in a meaningful way to your end users.
Tools
Lightning Tools was the first company to make BDC Development easy! BDC requires you to write XML files called ‘Application Definition’ files which enable you to connect to the database. They are complicated to write and very time consuming. Through our widely used tool BDC MetaMan, you can generate the Application Definition file for your databases in minutes instead of days.
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Web Parts
We've extended the BDC so your users can take SharePoint to the next level, check out our web parts here:
BDC Mapper Web Part
BDC Calendar Web Part
BDC KPI Web Part
BDC Chart Web Part
Extending SharePoint Further
Through our countless years of combined SharePoint development and consultation work Lightning Tools have put together a number of solutions and tools that will help speed up adoption and return on investment for your SharePoint deployment.
Try Before You Buy
Download our Developer Version or Trial Versions of our products. See how you get on. Even if you buy them, if they don’t work for you, let us know within 14 days and you can get 100% of your money back.
"Coming from a finance rather than IT background I find BDC Metaman very intuitive to use, it has made integration of our accounting data from MS Dynamics Nav into MOSS 2007 easier than I could have hoped"
Ian McCall - Finance Director at Rural Development Initiatives Ltd
"Whenever I explain my students the BDC Meta Model and show them how much effort it costs, they are surprised there isn't any out-of-the-box tooling available. With the BDC MetaMan I can show them it's possible to create a complete model in just a few minutes."
Bart Gunneman - SharePoint Trainer at Info Support