How to integrate foreign systems like newsserver..

Hello,
I am interested in the question, how does interwoven solves the problem of integrating datasources independent from its type.
For example, if my company would use a newsserver and I want to manage that content(or just a part of it) in my workarea, how can I connect to that store?
Or just a basic requierement how can I integrate a relational database?
At the moment I just found out, that I can export all the data stored in teamsuite to any kind of datastore but what is about the other way around?
And my last question for today, what is the difference between opendeploy and datadeploy? Everything that datadeploy does can also be done via opendeploy, or?
thanks
oliver

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tvaughan

Hi Oliver.

I'm by no means the last word on many of these issues that you raise, but here's my take:

Integration with 3rd party data source

If you have a 3rd party feed, like stock info or news data, or something like that, you often aren't concerned about tracking every little change that happens to that information. You're more often concerned about wrapping that incoming stream in your presentation and deploying it to your Production web servers.

For truely dynamic data, like stock tickers or graphs generated straight out of a database, you'll typically store the wrapper page in Interwoven, but not any given instance of the wrapper page.

So, to "integrate with a relational database", make sure that the pages presenting info taken from the database have the same ODBC drivers and PATH information on your TeamSite box as exist on the real-live Production servers. Make sense?

For news stories that may be streaming in to your site, you can install a news server client directly on your Interwoven box and then synch the receiving directory with some WORKAREA (via a workflow, or simple Perl script). TFO 5.5.2 comes with some auto-indexing features that make creating index pages for this kinda of data source really easy.

OpenDeploy vs. DataDeploy

The diff between OpenDeploy and DataDeploy is that OpenDeploy specializes in deploying to remote filesystems, and DataDeploy specializes in deploying to remote databases. I don't think you can use OD to deploy into a DB or use DD to deploy to a filesystem.

Hope that helps.
Tom