REST API Options for

Enterprise Data

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Director of Product Marketing
June 2, 2018
 Agenda
▪ Why are companies RESTifying enterprise data?
▪ Options to REST enable enterprise data
• Native Database REST API services
• Industry standard REST services
• Serverless Backend for Web and Mobile
▪ Summary of options for Progress OpenEdge

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 Why are companies
RESTifying enterprise data?

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 Post Application Era
▪ Check Mail With Virtual Assistant
▪ Get Mail Notification On Watch
▪ Reply To Message On Phone

MULTI CHANNEL APP EXPERIENCES

RATHER THAN SINGLE MAIL APP

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 The Enterprise Experience Gap
EXPERIENCES ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
Enterprise Auth

Active Directory

Mobile Chat Bots

LDAP SAML 2.0

Wearables Enterprise Data

Smart Devices

API Mgmt
AR/VR Web

SaaS

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 Digitizing the Enterprise

What are the most Modernizing legacy systems 36%

important initiatives that
you will work on to achieve Integrating SaaS apps 32%
your organization’s
business goals? Investing in mobile apps 31%

(Combination of responses Migrating apps to the cloud 30%

ranked first, second or third)

Setting up an eCommerce platform 27%

Source: Mulesoft Connectivity Benchmark Report 2018

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 Core System Revitalization from Deloitte Insights

Impact, investment, and

potential of core systems
revitalization

Source: Deloitte Insights Global CIO Survey 2015

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 Use Cases for REST
Enabling Enterprise Data

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 1. Exposing Data to Third Parties through HTTP

HTTP / HTTPS

Enterprise
REST APIs

Enterprise Data

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 2. Web and Mobile Data Access

REST APIs
{JSON}

Enterprise Data

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 3. Centralized Data Access

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 Options to REST enable
enterprise data

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 Multiple Options

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 Native Database REST
API services

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 Industry is moving towards REST APIs

Cloud-Hosted Databases On-Premises Databases

Google Cloud OpenEdge REST Services

Azure Oracle REST Data Services
Database.com Teradata REST API
IBM Cloudant IBM DB2 Rest Services
MarkLogic REST API

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 ORDS - return all accounts
HTTP GET https://server:port/ords/ords-test/metadata-catalog/account

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 ORDS – return all opportunities for an account
Must define handler to generate response in PL/SQL

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 Industry standard
REST services

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 What is OData?
An open protocol to allow the creation and consumption of
queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way

STARTED BY RATIFIED AS AN
MICROSOFT IN ISO STANDARD IN
2007 FEB 2017

OASIS
STANDARD SINCE
FEB 2014

Progress was the first member to join

the OData Technical Committee

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 Broad Adoption for OData

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 URL Query Conventions
https://myodataserver/northwind
\________________________/
|
Service Root

https://myodataserver/northwind/Customers('ALFKI')/Orders?$expand=OrderDetails
\_________________________/\_____________________/\_________________/
| | |
Service Root Resource Path Query Options

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 Self Describing Service – Metadata Document
▪ Detailed description of the service
URL: <service_root>/$metadata
Entity Type Function
Complex Type Action
Type Properties Parameters
Property Attributes Parameter Attributes
Name,Type, MaxLength, Name,Type, MaxLength,
Precision, Scale, Nullable, more Precision, Scale, Nullable, more
Navigation Property Return Type (Function)
Key (EntityType) Type, Nullable
Function Import
Action Import

Information equivalent to SQL Tables, Columns, Primary Key, Foreign Key,

Procedures, ProcedureColumns, Functions, FunctionColumns metadata calls
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 OData Query Options
System Query Option Description SQL Construct
$filter Restrict the entities returned when querying an WHERE clause
entity set to those matching the filter criteria
$select Specify the properties to be included in the SELECT list
returned entities
$orderby Specify the sort order of the returned entities ORDER BY clause
$expand Include related entities and complex types INNER JOIN
nested in the returned entities
$top and $skip Enable client to page through results TOP/SKIP or LIMIT/OFFSET
$count Include the count of the number of entities COUNT(*)
returned in the result
$search Restrict the entities returned when querying an Full Text Search
entity set to those matching the search
expression
$format Specify the desired data format for the response N/A

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 Progress Hybrid Data Pipeline creates OData REST API
from your enterprise databases

• OData from any data

source
• No Coding
• No version control
needed
• Patented on-premises
gateway technology

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 Salesforce Reports with OData from Progress

Report with data

blended from Standard
and External Objects
(pulled on-demand from
on-premises SQL Server
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Data Warehouse)
 Intuit
Develops financial and tax preparation software and related
services for small businesses, accountants and individuals.

“ I wanted to know about

implementation complexity. Lekhter
told me that each rollout to a new
user group took only a week of
development. They push new
business capabilities into production
on a monthly basis. Lehkter credits the
ease of development to the heavy
lifting provided by Lightning Connect
and Progress connectivity.

Jerry Lekhter
Director of Engineering
”
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 Serverless Backend for Web
and Mobile Services

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 Serverless Cloud Backend on Enterprise Data

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 Progress Kinvey Serverless Cloud Services

End-to-End Node.js Data & File Data Data Cloud Push, email,
End-to-End
Encryption Node.js
PaaS Data & File
Storage Data
Connector Data Sync,
Sync Cloud Caching
Caching SMS
Push,
Encryption Microservices Storage Connectors Offline Email, SMS
& Resolution

Live Configuration
Systems
SoR of Live Service Configuration Access Data
Data Operational Auto-Scaling
Auto-Scaling
Service Settings
Record
Integration Settings Controls
Controls Orchestration
Orchestration Intelligence

FULLY INTEGRATED TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONALLY FAST VALUE

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“ If you’ve worked with SAP systems as
long as I have, you know that it’s no
simple thing to extend an ERP system
with mobility.
With Kinvey…the performance has been
unbelievable. I went from 14-second SAP
data access down to 400-millisecond

”
mobile-friendly data access.

Anubhav Gupta
Director SAP Applications

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 Summary of Options for
Progress OpenEdge

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 Options for Progress OpenEdge

Progress OpenEdge Progress DataDirect Progress Kinvey Mobile

REST Services with OData REST API for SDK and API for
PASOE OpenEdge OpenEdge REST

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 REST Service Interface Options for OpenEdge

Mapped RPC REST Service

Data Object Services (using REST transport)
(using REST transport) Custom/DIY WebHandler
Data Object Services (using WEB transport)
(using WEB transport) Data Object Handler WebHandler
(using WEB transport)

OData view of OpenEdge DB

(using Hybrid Data Pipeline) Mobile APIs / SDKs for OpenEdge
OData view of OpenEdge REST API (using Progress Kinvey)
(using HDP + ‘Project Sagamore’)

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 JSDO REST Service Interface Options

Mapped RPC REST Service

Data Object Services (using REST transport)
(using REST transport) Custom/DIY WebHandler
Data Object Services (using WEB transport)
(using WEB transport) Data Object Handler WebHandler
(using WEB transport)

OData view of OpenEdge DB

(using Hybrid Data Pipeline) Mobile APIs / SDKs for OpenEdge
OData view of OpenEdge REST API (using Progress Kinvey)
(using HDP + ‘Project Sagamore’)

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 Custom REST Service Interface Options

Mapped RPC REST Service

Data Object Services (using REST transport)
(using REST transport) Custom/DIY WebHandler
Data Object Services (using WEB transport)
(using WEB transport) Data Object Handler WebHandler
(using WEB transport)

OData view of OpenEdge DB

(using Hybrid Data Pipeline) Mobile APIs / SDKs for OpenEdge
OData view of OpenEdge REST API (using Progress Kinvey)
(using HDP + ‘Project Sagamore’)

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 Standardized REST Service Interface Options

Mapped RPC REST Service

Data Object Services (using REST transport)
(using REST transport) Custom/DIY WebHandler
Data Object Services (using WEB transport)
(using WEB transport) Data Object Handler WebHandler
(using WEB transport)

OData view of OpenEdge DB

(using Hybrid Data Pipeline) Mobile APIs / SDKs for OpenEdge
OData view of OpenEdge REST API (using Progress Kinvey)
(using HDP + ‘Project Sagamore’)

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 OData access to OpenEdge – Direct to Database
All connections can be encrypted

Cloud-host application
(i.e. Salesforce / Dynamics)

OData (HTTPS)

On-Premises

JDBC
OE
DB

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 OData access to OpenEdge – via Business Logic
All connections can be encrypted

Cloud-host application
(i.e. Salesforce / Dynamics)

OData (HTTPS)

On-Premises

REST REST/
OE API HTTPS “Project Sagamore”
DB Generic REST JDBC Driver

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 Standardized REST Service Interface Options

Mapped RPC REST Service

Data Object Services (using REST transport)
(using REST transport) Custom/DIY WebHandler
Data Object Services (using WEB transport)
(using WEB transport) Data Object Handler WebHandler
(using WEB transport)

OData view of OpenEdge DB

(using Hybrid Data Pipeline) Mobile APIs / SDKs for OpenEdge
OData view of OpenEdge REST API (using Progress Kinvey)
(using HDP + ‘Project Sagamore’)

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 Progress Kinvey Mobile SDKs and APIs

Web/HTML5 Mobile Third Party

Progress Kinvey
Serverless Cloud Backend

Microservices

Perimeter Network

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 Resources
▪ Overview of OpenEdge REST Services
• https://documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest/index.ht
ml#page/dvwsv%2Foverview-of-rest-web-services-in-openedge.html%23
▪ Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline for databases such as
OpenEdge, SQL Server or Oracle
• https://www.progress.com/cloud-and-hybrid-data-integration
• https://www.progress.com/odata/openedge
▪ Progress Kinvey web/mobile APIs and SDKs
• https://www.progress.com/kinvey

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