The data-liberator toolkit allows data sources to connect to the MenSagam platform by providing APIs that enable querying of underlying data even if the data source itself does not support queriable APIs. The free and open source toolkit can be installed on infrastructure like Tomcat to give users access to the data source's data and allow various MenSagam tools and third party applications to analyze the data. The data source maintains control over securing access and determining what specific data is exposed through the APIs.

2. The data-liberator toolkit for the MenSagam allows your data
source to connect to the MenSagam. What we are finding is
that a lot of software as a service (SaaS) applications do not
have a queriable application programming interface (API). This
could mean the applications do not have APIs at all, or that they
have APIs that do not allow you to get access to the underlying
data. What you can do is get the data-liberator toolkit, which is
free open source code from the MenSagam, install it on your
infrastructure such as a J2EE web container, like Tomcat or
Jetty, and allow your users to get access to your data.

3. What this also enables you to do is have all the onramps of the
MenSagam access your data. These include any BI tools that
want to analyze your data, or simple tools such as Excel®.
MenSagam allows application developers to come in and use
these APIs to query your data and create new applications that
were impossible before. This also enables you to secure the
access to your data. You get to pick which pieces of data, which
tables, which views and what security model gets exposed to
the end user for accessing your SaaS data.