Stone Bond Technologies
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Stone Bond Technologies, L.P. (SBT) is a commercial software development company headquartered in Houston, Texas
and primarily known for its Enterprise Enabler data virtualization
and data integration
product. SBT grew out of a couple’s desire to development of a more efficient way to utilize the large amount of disparate data in the petroleum industry
.
Mr. Szabó, a former executive at Exxon
and Petróleos de Venezuela, has a background that includes petroleum marketing, trading, risk management, the power industry and the development, sales and marketing of highly specialized software for the petroleum and petrochemicals industries. He remains a recognized expert in the petroleum industry and is quoted frequently in media outlets such as Bloomberg
, The New York Times
and USA Today
. Mr. Szabó holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston.
Ms. Szabó holds a BS, summa cum laude, in Computer Science from the University of Houston. She has worked as a consultant to Shell's Houston-based research centers, FMC, General Dynamics, and Seiko Instruments, U.S.A in a variety of software development-related roles. She was also Vice President of Bonner and Moore Management Science. The founder and former President of Migration Technologies Corporation (a predecessor of SBT), Ms. Szabó has been the guiding hand in the development of all releases of SBT’s Enterprise Enabler, including the current one. Ms. Szabo (and others) hold U.S. patent #7,065,746 with covers a process for managing data integration integrity.
A specialized version of Enterprise Enabler, called EE-LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems), was launched in 2004. EE-LIMS is targeted to the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries. In 2006, the LIMS software achieved GeneChip-compatible status with the Affymetrix
Inc. GeneChip microarray platform. SBT launched an SaaS
version of EE-LIMS, called MicroLIMS, in February 2009.
Enterprise Enabler is a .NET-based design and configuration software that is used to customize what SBT calls an “AppComm”. The AppComm is a metadata-driven element used to control and execute communication, mapping and integration of data from multiple sources. Following is a list of standard and advanced AppComms.
Standard AppComms
Advanced AppComms
Data Integration
Data Virtualization
Enterprise Application Integration
(EAI)
Extract, transform, load
(ETL)
Metadata discovery
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
and primarily known for its Enterprise Enabler data virtualization
Data virtualization
Data virtualization describes the process of abstracting disparate data sources through a single data access layer ....
and data integration
Data integration
Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data.This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial and scientific domains...
product. SBT grew out of a couple’s desire to development of a more efficient way to utilize the large amount of disparate data in the petroleum industry
Petroleum industry
The petroleum industry includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting , and marketing petroleum products. The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline...
.
Company History
Anthonio Szabó (President and CEO) and his wife, Pamela Szabó (Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer), founded Stone Bond Technologies, L.P. in 2002.Mr. Szabó, a former executive at Exxon
Exxon
Exxon is a chain of gas stations as well as a brand of motor fuel and related products by ExxonMobil. From 1972 to 1999, Exxon was the corporate name of the company previously known as Standard Oil Company of New Jersey or Jersey Standard....
and Petróleos de Venezuela, has a background that includes petroleum marketing, trading, risk management, the power industry and the development, sales and marketing of highly specialized software for the petroleum and petrochemicals industries. He remains a recognized expert in the petroleum industry and is quoted frequently in media outlets such as Bloomberg
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
. Mr. Szabó holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston.
Ms. Szabó holds a BS, summa cum laude, in Computer Science from the University of Houston. She has worked as a consultant to Shell's Houston-based research centers, FMC, General Dynamics, and Seiko Instruments, U.S.A in a variety of software development-related roles. She was also Vice President of Bonner and Moore Management Science. The founder and former President of Migration Technologies Corporation (a predecessor of SBT), Ms. Szabó has been the guiding hand in the development of all releases of SBT’s Enterprise Enabler, including the current one. Ms. Szabo (and others) hold U.S. patent #7,065,746 with covers a process for managing data integration integrity.
Products
SBT’s principal product, Enterprise Enabler, is enterprise-class data virtualization and integration software for application in such broad industry segments such as manufacturing, financial services, government and energy. The latest version of Enterprise Enabler is release 7.0 (September 2010).A specialized version of Enterprise Enabler, called EE-LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems), was launched in 2004. EE-LIMS is targeted to the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries. In 2006, the LIMS software achieved GeneChip-compatible status with the Affymetrix
Affymetrix
Affymetrix is a company that manufactures DNA microarrays; it is based in Santa Clara, California, United States. The company was founded by Dr. Stephen Fodor in 1992. It began as a unit in Affymax N.V...
Inc. GeneChip microarray platform. SBT launched an SaaS
Saas
SAAS is an abbreviation for* Social Accountability Accreditation Services* Software as a service * Student Awards Agency for Scotland* Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences* South Australian Ambulance Service...
version of EE-LIMS, called MicroLIMS, in February 2009.
Enterprise Enabler is a .NET-based design and configuration software that is used to customize what SBT calls an “AppComm”. The AppComm is a metadata-driven element used to control and execute communication, mapping and integration of data from multiple sources. Following is a list of standard and advanced AppComms.
Standard AppComms
- ADO.NETADO.NETADO.NET is a set of computer software components that programmers can use to access data and data services. It is a part of the base class library that is included with the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is commonly used by programmers to access and modify data stored in relational database systems,...
- DbaseDBASEdBase II was the first widely used database management system for microcomputers. It was originally published by Ashton-Tate for CP/M, and later on ported to the Apple II and IBM PC under DOS...
- Delimiter-separated values
- EDI - see Electronic Data InterchangeElectronic Data InterchangeElectronic data interchange is the structured transmission of data between organizations by electronic means. It is used to transfer electronic documents or business data from one computer system to another computer system, i.e...
- FoxPro
- Microsoft AccessMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of...
- Microsoft Dynamics AXMicrosoft Dynamics AXis one of Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning software products. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family.-History:Microsoft Dynamics AX was originally developed as a collaboration between IBM and Damgaard as IBM Axapta. IBM returned all rights in the product to Damgaard shortly after the...
- Microsoft Dynamics CRMMicrosoft Dynamics CRMMicrosoft Dynamics CRM is a multi-lingual Customer Relationship Management software package developed by Microsoft. Out of the box, the product focuses mainly on Sales, Marketing, and Service sectors, but Microsoft has been marketing Dynamics CRM as an XRM platform and has been encouraging...
- Microsoft.Net Objects
- Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
- MSMQ – Microsoft Message QueuingMicrosoft Message QueuingMicrosoft Message Queuing or MSMQ is a Message Queue implementation developed by Microsoft and deployed in its Windows Server operating systems since Windows NT 4 and Windows 95. The latest Windows 7 also includes this component...
- ODBC – Open Database ConnectivityOpen Database ConnectivityIn computing, ODBC is a standard C interface for accessing database management systems . The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems...
- Salesforce.comSalesforce.comSalesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...
- Microsoft SharePointMicrosoft SharePointMicrosoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...
2007 MOSS Lists - Microsoft SharePointMicrosoft SharePointMicrosoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...
2007 BDC - Microsoft SharePoint 2010 – see Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
- SQLSQLSQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
- SybaseSybaseSybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....
- UDL – see Microsoft Data Access ComponentsMicrosoft Data Access ComponentsMicrosoft Data Access Components is a framework of interrelated Microsoft technologies that allows programmers a uniform and comprehensive way of developing applications that can access almost any data store. Its components include: ActiveX Data Objects , OLE DB, and Open Database Connectivity...
- Web ServiceWeb serviceA Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...
- Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 – see Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
- Access Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – see Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
- Excel XML – see Microsoft Office XML formatsMicrosoft Office XML formatsThe Microsoft Office XML formats are XML-based document formats introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007...
- XLS
Advanced AppComms
- IBM DB2IBM DB2The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...
- IBM WebSphere MQ
- Oracle DatabaseOracle DatabaseThe Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- SAP RFC – see Remote Function CallRemote Function CallRemote Function Call is the proprietary SAP AG interface for communication between a SAP System and other SAP or third-party compatible system over TCP/IP or CPI-C connections...
Recognition
- 2006 - Fast Tech 50 Award Recipient for being the fifth fastest growing technology company in Houston
- 2006 - SBT/Enterprise Enabler receive a Global Integration Summit Award for Excellence from the Integration ConsortiumIntegration ConsortiumThe Integration Consortium is a global non-profit community that shares knowledge and best practices related to enterprise application integration...
- 2009 - SBT recognized as a Gold Microsoft Certified PartnerMicrosoft Certified PartnerA Microsoft Certified Partner is an independent company that provides Microsoft-related products or services.Microsoft Certified partners provide Microsoft services on behalf of Microsoft worldwide spanning many fields including OEM, Education, Software providers and Technical Support.Microsoft...
(MCP) - 2010 - Participant in the MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for SharePoint 2010
Partners
SBT has a number of partners utilizing the Enterprise Enabler product:- Dundas Data Visualization, Inc.Dundas Data Visualization, Inc.Dundas Data Visualization, Inc. formerly known as Dundas Software Ltd is a commercial software development company with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are mostly known for their Dundas Components product . Currently Dundas Data Visualization produces Data Visualization and Dashboard...
- ComponentSource
- Kiodex
- Layer2
- Nintex
- Permuta Technologies
- Zapoint
See also
Comparison of business integration softwareComparison of business integration software
This article is a comparison of business integration and business process automation software.-Scope:Scope of this comparison:* Service-oriented architecture implementations;* Message-oriented middleware and message brokers;...
Data Integration
Data integration
Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data.This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial and scientific domains...
Data Virtualization
Data virtualization
Data virtualization describes the process of abstracting disparate data sources through a single data access layer ....
Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise application integration
Enterprise Application Integration is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.- Overview :...
(EAI)
Extract, transform, load
Extract, transform, load
Extract, transform and load is a process in database usage and especially in data warehousing that involves:* Extracting data from outside sources* Transforming it to fit operational needs...
(ETL)
Metadata discovery
Metadata discovery
In metadata, metadata discovery is the process of using automated tools to discover the semantics of a data element in data sets. This process usually ends with a set of mappings between the data source elements and a centralized metadata registry....