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Layer2 Products are used to manage business-critical corporate data migration, backup, integration, and document or file synchronization - especially in the context of Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, and Azure. Learn more about our products the Layer2 Cloud Connector, Layer2 Business Data List Connector, or Layer2 Smoove below - or start with our solutions page to learn which product fits your challenge most.
Layer2 Smoove -
The easy way to sync
Layer2 Smoove beta is our new web-application that will allow you to sync your data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM to Sharepoint. You can login and smoove from anywhere and at any time.
Cloud services future-proof your business by improving your business agility and avoiding potentially expensive mistakes.
Enjoy the brand new design with a modern and intuitive user interface. The UI allows an easy and user friendly connectivity and synchronization.
You don't need any IT-knowledge at all: just click on the tiles to connect your entities and smoove!
The advantage of web-based applications is that you only need an internet connection. Just log in and sync, whether you are at home, your workplace or at lunch with your colleagues.
We are constantly working on extending the tool and we have infinity options to integrate new features, other systems and more funtions.
Layer2 Cloud Connector -
The Swiss Army Knife of Data integration
The Layer2 Cloud Connector can integrate data and sync documents between 100+ corporate data sources without programming. It is used to connect services and apps on-premises or cloud-based, such as Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, Dynamics, Azure, SQL/ERP/CRM, and more for migration, backup, or permanent two-way synchronization.
Connect and sync 100+ systems and apps in just minutes without any programming. Select the data provider, enter a data query and a primary key, map the fields - done.
One tool - many use cases: data and document migration, file backup, and permanent two-way data sync. Use the tool to connect your local apps with the cloud,local to local, or cloud to cloud.
The "Swiss-Army Knife" of Microsoft Cloud Data Integration & File Sync: Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Dynamics, Exchange, Azure, Office Groups, Microsoft Teams, Flow...
We support all kind of SQL databases, Oracle, Db2 via ODBC, OLEDB, ADO.NET, ERP/CRM, Microsoft Office Access / Excel, XML, CSV, OData, SOAP... Any many 3rd-party ADO.NET data provider.
As a Windows Service, your data resides today, locally, or in your cloud. No changes in the connected systems required, no administrative access rights... Just direct and secure connections - you are in full control.
Flexible and cost-effective licensing: The 3 fully-featured product editions are licensed per installation. Just select the license model that suits your business needs.
Layer2 business data list connector -
The expert in SharePoint on-premise data integration
The Layer2 Business Data List Connector for SharePoint solves many issues that still exist with Microsoft SharePoint data integration. It connects SharePoint on-premises lists to 100+ external data sources without any programming to keep the data in sync. All the great SharePoint features are supported for connected lists.
No programming skills needed: Just go to SharePoint "List Settings", click "Connect to External Data Source". Enter a very few settings, create automatically and map your data fields - that's it. Your list will be connected and always up-to-date.
Connect SharePoint to almost any SQL/ERP/CRM via ODBC, OLEDB, or ADO.NET. Integrate via Excel, Access, XML, CSV/TXT. Sync data via Web Services like OData or SOAP. Pull data from Active Directory, Exchange, Dynamics, SharePoint, or Office 365.
Use the SharePoint features you are already familiar with: Keep settings in the Secure Store. Cache external data in SharePoint lists. Use Timer Jobs, Ribbon Buttons, or the SharePoint API to keep your list data up-to-date in minutes.
Provide all the great SharePoint list features for your external data without any restrictions: Views, filters, lookups, search, forms, change notifications, workflows on external data change.
Extend SharePoint forms and workflows to almost any external system for better collaboration and reporting. Process external data changes in SharePoint and write-back results to external systems in real-time. Integrate external systems with Flow or PowerApps.
Integrate your SharePoint-based portal. Providing pre-selected data sets for easy access increases end-user acceptance and helps to release the potential benefits of your existing SharePoint portal.
Layer2 Knowledge Management Suite -
make your SharePoint Smarter
The Layer2 Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint is a must-have to better manage taxonomies in the SharePoint Term Store, to assign managed metadata to items and documents automatically via bulk-tagging or in real-time, and to improve SharePoint content discovery and search. Let your data and documents in Sharepoint become knowledge.
Export, import and update Term Sets to / from external systems via SKOS/XML without to lose existing metadata assignments. Can be used for Term Store backup, deployment, or integration.
Enrich your terms by flexible classification rules based on synonyms, regular expressions (REGEX), and custom logic to better classify your content by managed metadata assignment.
Classify SharePoint list items and documents for better findability by assigning managed metadata automatically via bulk-tagging (after migration) or in real-time (after user interactions).
Benefit of managed metadata assignment by adding additional, search-driven navigations, such as a term glossary or A-Z subject index to improve content findability and foster a common corporate language.
Display context-specific "related content" dynamically in SharePoint, such as related documentation, news with similar topic, responsible contacts, further links, automatically as known from amazon.com using search-driven, security trimmed web parts with flexible template-based design.
The Layer2 Knowledge Management Suite is available for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, 2013, and 2016. SharePoint WFEs and Application Servers must be licensed. It's not fully available for SharePoint Online.