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The Source Application

The Purpose of B2B Integration

Every company manages its system with one or more unique applications.

The first step is to take the information you want to send to your business partner’s system from the “source application.” First, let’s explain what the “source application” is. A manufacturing business might want to take purchase orders from its own ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) application, while a retail chain might want to take current sales information from its own POS (Point of Sale) application.

Each company runs its business using a unique set of software applications.

  1. 01

    Companies in the manufacturing sector generally use ERP applications to fulfil order, purchasing, finance and similar functions. Today, Oracle, SAP, Infor, Microsoft, LOGO, Mikro and many similar ERP applications are available.

  2. 02

    In the retail sector, the same ERP applications are widely used, but the way they are used is different. For retailers, ERP applications such as ORACLE, SAP, JDE or similar must support functions such as warehouse management, demand planning, counting and similar.

  3. 03

    In the services sector many customized applications are used. For example, a finance company may use SAP or ORACLE for human resources, purchasing, and finance transactions, while for the services it offers it may use another application such as MetaTeam, S1 or AkınSoft.

  4. 04

    In recent years, companies from almost every sector have been moving towards purchasing their applications as a service (Software as a Service – SaaS) and using cloud technology. In addition to the traditional enterprise applications mentioned above, a company can use systems such as Salesforce.com for customer relationship management, WorkTeam for human resources, Logo, Mikro, Netsis for finance and accounting.

Now to the Important Part!

How can we get the data out of these applications to send it to business partners?

Conclusion

So before you can decide on the best way to extract data from your source application(s), you will need to research the options offered by your application vendor(s). Then you will need to connect your B2B integration technology to these source applications through an API, middleware or another utility. However, there is still more work to do before the data can be transmitted to your business partner.

Each application vendor, whether it offers traditional software or cloud services, offers different ways to extract and insert data.

Ways to access the data
  1. 01

    API

    SaaS vendors typically offer an API (application programming interface) that reads, writes or updates database fields tied to their applications.

  2. 02

    Middleware

    The larger ERP vendors each offer their own middleware applications with their software suites. Examples include SAP’s Process Integrator and Oracle’s Fusion. These types of middleware packages make it easy to send data back and forth to the ERP applications.

  3. 03

    Bulk data transfer

    Not every software application vendor offers sophisticated APIs or specialized middleware. But almost every vendor does offer a utility to extract data or insert it in bulk—to or from a file system.

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