As SharePoint gets used more in organizations it makes sense for it to become the place you can go to access external data. This data comes from systems that have grown within your company over time. Whether this is to simply see a dashboard of KPI's, reuse the data within SharePoint, or use SharePoint as the main user interface to edit or add to your external data - there are many options open to you. When choosing which mechanism you want to use to integrate your data with SharePoint, Lightning Tools has the knowledge and tooling to help you make the right decision.
If you want to integrate your external data with SharePoint 2010 through the Business Connectivity Services, BCS Meta Man is the tool you need. If will save you days of time by generating all the XML Model and C# code you need.
Using SharePoint 2007 and the Business Data Catalog? Stop hand editing those XML config files by hand and start using BDC Meta Man! It will generate the thousands of lines of XML you need to produce in seconds - cutting your integration time down from days to minutes.
The Lightning Data Masher is designed for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. If you have SharePoint Lists to collect information, using our tool you can export that information in a SQL database allowing you to perform intelligent data reporting on it. You can also take existing data from a SQL database and form a SharePoint to include that data...