Welcome to Lightning Tools
Lightning Tools Ltd is the market leader in Business Data Catalog solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - we also sell a number of other great SharePoint web parts.
All our products have a free trial version and we are always happy to answer your questions.
Business Data Catalog and BDC Meta Man
The business data catalog is a great integration point to bring your important line of business data into a familiar user interface such as SharePoint. BDC Meta Man makes this an easy process that can bring a 4 day job to be completed in 2 minutes. Click here for more on our Business Data Catalog tool.
Also if you are looking into a SOA integration solution with SharePoint make sure you check out our new tool BDC Web Man to generate hundreds of lines of web service code automatically for you. Click here to learn how to generate BDC Web Services in seconds.
Web Parts for SharePoint
We are lucky to have a great set of customers who share their needs for extending SharePoint. Through this feedback we have been able to develop a number of SharePoint web parts that will allow you to take SharePoint to the next level
Lightning Conductor Web Part - roll up your SharePoint list and library information with our simple to use web part. Filter, style and modify all through the UI without needing any coding skills! Works with WSS 3.0 as well as MOSS 2007. Learn more about SharePoint Rollup.
SharePoint Forum Web Parts - if your users do not like the SharePoint Discussion Boards and want a more standard look to their forums check out our Community Tools for SharePoint.
LT Data Viewer Web Part - if you can't use the BDC and still want to display your SQL Server or Oracle data in SharePoint check out this web part. Drag, drop and a few clicks to configure! With filtering, conditional formating, column ordering. Find out more about our Data Viewer Web Part.
Lightning Jump Web Part - SharePoint portals grow and grow and become difficult to navigate around. See how the Lightning Jump Web Part can make it easier for your users to quickly get to common areas, making SharePoint navigation easier.
BDC Alert Manager - if you have sensitive data in your line of business system you may want email alerts when certain things happen to it - stock levels and reordering? Check out the BDC Alert Manager to see how you can manage this in SharePoint.
BDC Mapper Web Part - use Virtual Earth to plot your BDC address information on a map to help users understand your data. Included KPI pushpins!
BDC KPI Web Part - get Live KPI information to your users with the BDC KPI Web Part. Ajax functionality also updates the KPIs at set intervals without needing a screen refresh.
BDC Calendar Web Part - if your BDC data source has date or event information make use of the BDC Calendar web part to show it to your users in a way they are familiar with.
Try before you buy
All our tools and web parts come with a free trial or developer version that will let you test it out to ensure if meets your requirements. We also offer a 365 day money back guarantee as we want to make sure all our customers are very happy!
Multi License Purchases
If you purchase BDC Meta Man we also give you a free license of the BDC KPI, Mapper and Calendar web parts! This saves you $1000.00!
If you are looking to purchase multiple licenses or different licenses of our products please
get in contact with us and we'll see what we can do.
"You guys are definitely on my product recommendation list for a great product & excellent support!"
Dean Greenhorn - Network Administrator at Zedi
"Whenever I explain my students the BDC Meta Model and show them how much effort it costs, they are surprised there isn't any out-of-the-box tooling available. With the BDC MetaMan I can show them it's possible to create a complete model in just a few minutes."
Bart Gunneman - SharePoint Trainer at Info Support
"The BDC Alert Manager is a great addition to the SharePoint BDC. I am currently working with a customer in the public safety space that is using this tool to provide alerts to users when records change in a case management system. This capability allows users to monitor cases of interest from within their SharePoint environment. By using both the BDC Meta Man and the BDC Alert Manager, the customer is able to provide significant capability to the users of their SharePoint portal WITHOUT having to write a single line of code!"
David Stampfli - - at Microsoft