The Sentinel is a comprehensive utility tool that allows Notes Developers, Administrators and Data Warehouse Managers to initialize, organize, and schedule data transport and extract tasks in the convenient and easy-to-use Notes interface. It also handles many of the problems associated with data integration.
The Sentinel automatically transports and updates legacy or warehouse data into Notes applications without the use of script language or the Notes API tool kit. Sentinel is useful for Notes application developers and designers who need to initialize and update Notes applications quickly and easily with data from any ASCII or ODBC data source.
The Sentinel is the only product that attempts to resolve all of the issues surrounding data integration. A simple example is our view refresh feature. This updates user views after moving data into Notes, so users won't have to wait. The Sentinel offers ten features not found in any competing product. Features such as:
1. Running macros before and after importing
2. Integrated Field Mapping
3. View refreshing automatically (so the users won't complain in the morning)
4. Word Processing imports, for batches of word processing documents. This is an easy way to move hundreds or thousands of word processing documents into Notes without manual effort, and keep the Notes database in synch with the word processing files.
5. Archival of Notes databases, moving data to other Notes databases or non-Notes databases.
6. Combining many Notes fields into one field.
7. Running External DOS or Windows applications, which makes it easy to initiate a mainframe download at night
8. Embedding doclinks to other Notes databases, instead of importing the Notes data, minimizing field size, and allowing added security.
9. Replication Conflict Analyzer shows the exact discrepencies between two replication conflict documents.
10. Orpan Document Finder locates "lost" orphan documents, and allows you to delete them.
Sentinel has over ten unique features!
So, we have taken simple data integration and wrapped it with useful utilities to make a package that is functional, needed, and unique in the Notes world!