Anypoint data gateway
- 1. MULE –Anypoint Data Gateway
- 2. 2 Overview Anypoint Data Gateway allows you to quickly and easily integrate data stored in legacy back-office systems with Salesforce. Data Gateway lets you access your data from within Salesforce itself, using a simple point- and-click visual interface to wield the full functionality of Salesforce on your external data.
- 3. 3 Data Gateway supports integration with systems such as SAP, Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL and others. Connecting to these systems is instantaneous – just fill in the parameters such as host, user, etc. and you’re done. The ability to quickly connect with diverse back-office systems eliminates the need to create separate design environments, or to implement extensive training for Salesforce users.
- 4. 4 Data Gateway is a Salesforce package which you install via Salesforce AppExchange. After you isntall the package, you can access the Data Gateway Designer, which allows you to quickly and easily create a new gateway to your desired external data source. After you’ve configured your gateway, you can publish it – make it available to the external entities that you specify – as well as see existing objects in your data source, and create new objects.
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- 6. 6 Supported External Data Sources Currently, Anypoint Data Gateway supports the following external data sources: SAP Oracle DB2 MS SQL MySQL
- 7. 7 Additionally, support is planned for the following: Oracle E-Business Suite Siebel PostgreSQL Advantages of Data Gateway include: Automatic population and configuration of metadata: Metadata from the external data source is automatically retrieved for you, greatly simplifying the task of creating or configuring objects Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): The network is automatically created and configured for you Point-and-click GUI: The simple visual interface allows developers to focus on configuring integration instead of developing for integration
- 8. 8 When a request is received, the authentication header is read from the request and authenticated against all security providers on the Security Manager. If you only want to validate on certain providers, you can supply a comma-separated list of security provider names. <mule-ss:http-security-filter realm="mule-realm" securityProviders="default,another"/>
- 9. 9 Supported EDI Document Types B2B Portal 1.0.0 Beta (Trading Partner Management and Message Tracking) AS2 and EDI X12 Purchase Order Walkthrough FTPS and EDI X12 Purchase Order Walkthrough