November 02, 2008. Singapore - Sai Innovations, makers of SAI Workspace Suite, a powerful SharePoint Collaboration Application platform, has announced the release of Data Viewer Web Part. SAI Data Viewer Web Part will be part of SAI Workspace Suite functionality which enhances the SharePoint capabilities through its basic building blocks, Web Parts and Features. They serve as precursor to SharePoint collaborative applications which can be assembled using the modular architecture of SAI Workspace framework. Modular architecture plays to clients’ advantage that, using SAI’ existing ‘Web Parts and Features’, SharePoint applications can be developed or customized to include Navigation, Rollups, Quick Actions, Business Process and Business Intelligence.

SAI Data Viewer Web Part provides integration of SharePoint with Business application data stored in external databases like Oracle and MS SQL servers. SAI Data Viewer Web Part is deemed as "must haves" for business users and project managers looking to create a highly-productive web-based collaborative portal in SharePoint. The Data Viewer Web Part offers an efficient and cost-effective approach for the business users to view, search and edit data from any LOB applications. End users with no programming knowledge can customize the Web Part to view the data from either Databases or SharePoint List and display them in flat or hierarchical way. The users can download an evaluation version of the Data Viewer Web Part from SAI web site at www.sai-innovations.com

SAI Data Viewer Web Part displays data from SharePoint List/Document Library, SQL table/view (Oracle or MS SQL Server), or SAI Rollup data Web Part without the need for SharePoint Designer. Since Designer is not used, Administrators can be assured that Web Pages are not un-ghosted accidently. All the functionalities offered by Data View and more are available in SAI Data Viewer Web Part, like dynamic grouping (Outlook style grouping by end users), filtering and sorting, exporting items to Microsoft Excel or PDF, and customizing the Web Part either with CSS or changing the Web Part skin to match the corporate standards.

Data Viewer Web Part allows users to work in an environment comfortable to them, say Microsoft Excel interface. Inline Child SharePoint List or SQL table/view data can be viewed in Master/Child relationship, just like Excel Pivot tables. Master and Child data can also come from different sources, for example, Customer details can be displayed from a SharePoint List and grouped below this will be the orders for the Customers, which is usually available in an external SQL table.

Features overview of SAI Data Viewer Web Part

"SharePoint adoption continues to accelerate due to the platform's singular productivity and collaboration capabilities. We have listened to our customers and they want to use SharePoint Portal to aggregate existing business information/data from various sources without compromising security" says Chandra Jeganathan, President of Sai Innovations. "Our objective is to make easy to accomplish that goal and the vision is to ‘Mash up’ the data from LOB applications and SharePoint in a way which is useful for business. We are focused on enhancing SharePoint environment with Web Parts, allowing end users to develop SharePoint applications with just business knowledge."

Sai Innovations provides an end-to-end business solutions using SharePoint, to customize and deploy MOSS 2007 applications that address functional requirements for Collaboration, Portal, Knowledge retention, and Compliance management. SAI provides a suite of Web Parts, Solution Accelerators and customized products for project management, social networking, business intelligence, portal administration and content management. SAI' award winning SAI Workspace Suite, which is a Collaborative Drawing Board for SharePoint application development allows end users to realize the business requirements in the SharePoint applications, without the need for any knowledge in programming.

SAI SharePoint development methodology for rapidly delivering new applications significantly minimizes development time, resources and the cost of deploying collaborative SharePoint applications. SAI customers can implement SharePoint, to effectively bring together the People, Processes and Systems within and outside the Enterprise, and deliver an integrated, collaborative environment on SharePoint platform.

SAI' product offerings includes an annual Premium Support subscription that gives customers all new functionalities added to the Web Part and Features over the life of the subscription period, providing a continuous stream of new functionalities. With a new release every month, customers quickly benefit both today and in the future. Customers can easily try, testing and buying from the online store and in addition gaining access to additional resources through SAI’ global network of partners. Sai Innovations is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, USA, with offices in Singapore and Chennai, India.

All product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners. For more information please contact: Sai Innovations, www.sai-innovations.com.