Integration Framework
The integration framework for SAP Business One is an infrastructure for communication and interaction between software applications and provides tools to build new integration scenarios. The meaning and importance of integration or the question, why integration is needed? In daily business life, the subject of integration plays an increasingly important role. Integration affects many areas of a company, such as business cooperation, integration of employees from other countries, connecting business units, and a very important aspect is the integration of different software systems and components that best enhance your company processes.
The benefit of the integration framework –
The usage of the integration framework has several advantages. I would like to explain some of them by using examples:
- Fast adaptation in case of changes
- let’s assume that a scenario is created for data exchange and synchronization with other systems. It could be possible that changes will happen, e.g. new fields are available and should be considered. These new fields could be incorporated into the mapping, or deleted if required. Also, SAP Business One release changes generally do not have an impact on the already created integration scenarios.
- Release independent usage
- a single scenario can be created to exchange and synchronize data across several SAP Business One company databases. This single scenario can be used for the different SAP Business One release versions.
- Let’s assume in a new release new fields are available. The existing scenario can be updated using these new fields. The same scenario can still be used for the older release versions despite not having the fields available. Furthermore, the different release versions of SAP Business One are available for selection and usage in the integration framework.
- Reuse of scenarios another benefit of the integration framework is the reuse of existing components.
- Let’s assume a scenario to exchange and synchronize data between two databases is created. It is not necessary to create a new scenario when adding a new database with similar integration requirements. The existing scenario can be enhanced or used as a template scenario.
