SAP Business One with its strong core functionality enables a lower cost and faster implementation. This leaves a key expense and pain point...... integration. Integrating with other key business systems is still a major expense. Products such as SAP B1i and Magic iBolt challenge this cost assumption and simplify the integration experience. Alongside these offering sits the NAMMIS developed framework integration product suite which can seamlessly integration master and transactional data.
Systems Integrated
Our experience encompasses integration with multi-entity SAP Business One solutions, SAP Business One to mySAP ERP (SAP R/3) and 3rd party systems integral to core business processes.
Model-Driven Integration (MDI)
Both B1i and iBolt adhere to the concept of Model-Driven Integration (MDI). MDI takes the fact that it is hard-coded functionality at the root of the pain and aims to avoid hard-coded parts in the integration logic.
This is done by covering the integration task with a model and by providing user interfaces to enable the configuration of the integration. The model controls the integration development and leads the integration consultant in a well structured manner through the task. Since the integration pattern takes over the most critical tasks, the job of the integration consultant turns from 'development' to 'configuration'. This procedure is very helpful for all involved parties. Even in the analysis phase, the model helps to ask the right questions before starting.
This approach leads to a significant reduction in the implementation effort. It can also lead to better trouble-shooting due to the visualisation and transparency and thereby leading to better calculable maintenance.
SAP Business One Integration Technology (SAP B1i)
SAP provides a solution with the SAP Business One Integration Technology. It reduces dramatically the required skills necessary to setup an integration environment by providing generic pattern for particular integration needs, by generating most of the configuration automatically, by providing descriptions of the application systems, descriptions of the interfaces and the objects' behaviour and by providing ready-to-use Integration Content out-of-the-box. Even if the right content out-of-the-box is not available, the Semantical Integration Model (SIM) controls the development of new Integration Content by providing a well structured process and a comfortable graphical IDE.
Magic Software iBolt for SAP Business One
iBOLT for SAP Business One support the following functionality:
- Workflow and Composite Functionality
- Multi-channel Access to SAP Business One Functions and Data
- Business Collaboration (A2A, B2B, ...)
- Third-Party Product Extension
- Interoperability with Other Platforms (Unix, AS/400...)
- Business Activity Monitoring and Performance Management
iBOLT for SAP Business One extends the capabilities and usability of SAP Business One, making it a central piece of a composite application, spanning the entire company. It is highly scalable - both from a technical and commercial point of view - it can add value to a 5 user SAP Business One site, as well as to an organization of 100 users.
