Napojení .NET / Java technologie na SAS BI

This thesis is focused on SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform product and it's capabilities to integrate within a Business Intelligence solution. The aim of the thesis is to describe integration technolgies that the platform features, as well as to determine their application field and compare them, eventually add usage examples. The first part of the thesis explains the general concept and architecture of Business Intelligence, afterwards the reader gets familiar with the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform, it's stucture and components and it's Business Intelligence market position. The second part of the thesis contains description (how they work and what they are good for) of the integration technologies available in SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform. Those technologies are mostly implementations of the most common industry standards (database APIs, COM/DCOM, CORBA, web services). The study also includes description of these standards supported by SAS. The thesis features also comparisions of the integration technologies, namely comparison of database API implementations and comparision of Integrated Object Model API with SAS BI Web Services.