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OData Connector

Open Data Protocol (OData) is an OASIS standard that defines best practices to build and consume RESTful APIs. You can focus on business logic and build RESTful APIs with OData instead of defining request headers, response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats and the query options. OData guides you to track changes and define functions, or actions for reusable procedures and send asynchronous, or batch requests. Use OData for extension and to fulfill any custom needs of your RESTful APIs. OData builds on core protocols, such as HTTP and commonly recognized methodologies like REST.
You can use OData Connector to integrate Informatica Cloud with systems, such as SharePoint and Team Foundation Services. These systems are OData compliant, on-premise compliant or cloud applications compliant.