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Interfaces in the SmartOpsMgt software are based on Tau-Adaptor™ principles.
These principles are intended to simplify the writing programs, such as Python scripts, which need to exchange data with databases, either directly through ODBC interfaces, or indirectly through SOAP/XML web-services interfaces.
The concept is that, in the context of operations tracking and management databases, including most ERP and CRM databases, all interaction can be reduced to a set of 5 simplified methods:
These are methods of the Python MxPclass library and are called with a Keyword that identifies the table to be accessed or stored procedure to be run.
The intent is to eliminate the need for staff members, such as business analysts and manufacturing engineers to be able to write Python scripts to manipulate the data without needing to understand the structure of the underlying databases or to write complex SQL code, with inner and outer joins to handle indirections in the database tables.
There is a corresponding MxClass library, which can be used by .Net programmers but which expresses its method call data in .Net object structures.
Note that the adaptors can also be used to access remote databases via their web-services protocols over the internet, providing that they follow the Tau adaptor methodology. This can be used, for example, to access a remote WIPtracker database or SmartOps247 database through a remote SmartOps24x7 site.
Please click here to see a sample of Python code for an Intelligent Agent Process that uses Tau Adaptor principles.
