Summary
Stibo Systems' Data as a Service (DaaS) offering addresses direct high-volume consumption of master data, for example, by web site or point of sale (POS) through an always-on, cloud-native API configured for maximum ease of use.
Customers and application developers are able to access data mastered in STEP at a massive scale without having to replicate the data themselves. The DaaS solution provides scalability, availability, and durability, making the data easily available to other customer systems. DaaS enables the creation of new applications based on data so that customers can make maximum use of their master data while maintaining a separation of concerns between complex MDM activities and high volume consumption of master data.
Note: The Data as a Service commercial license must be enabled to use this functionality. DaaS is still in a ramp-up phase, so not all customers will have access to it. To learn more about the ramp-up phase / status, refer to the License and Component Lifecycle in the System Update and Patch Notes section of online help here.
Details
With DaaS, data is published from STEP via an event processor to the DaaS service in the cloud. The DaaS service provides a management API that makes it possible to define multiple API services for data consumption that draw upon the same data but expose it to consumer systems in different ways via different GraphQL APIs, allowing for horizontal or vertical filtering. Data can be published from multiple STEP contexts allowing consumers to query specific context-dependent versions of the data. Communication between STEP and DaaS is handled via the new ‘Azure DaaS’ gateway integration endpoint (GIEP) plugin and the 'DaaS Event Processor' plugin.
For more information about Data as a Service, refer to the Publishing to Data as a Service documentation here.