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You use transactions to access data from multiple sources and execute processes, which are triggered synchronously or asynchronously.

You can use transactions to do the following:

  • Perform complex calculations

  • Manipulate data for reporting and system synchronization

  • Create reports, charts, and dashboard images

For example, you can configure a transaction to do the following:

  • Query data from different plant systems

  • Merge data into an XML document

  • Send data to an ERP interface

  • Send alerts based on thresholds

Features

You can define multiple inputs and outputs. The transaction process steps consist of actions. Each action could have its own output, such as data written to a database. You could include the output from a transaction as an input to another transaction. Each transaction can be called as a Web service and has its own WSDL definition.