Customizing Sap Business One With Sdk Integrations Versus Client Interface Modifications

When you are planning customization project it is good idea to think about tools and the areas to be exposed to software development

. Technically it is possible to modify client interface as well as extend it with new forms in add-ons. Second option is pure integration where you use Software Development Kit in the manner of login the system and add or modify documents the same way but faster as it would be done in client application. Lets review details and try to come out with recommendations:

1.SDK and interface modification or new development. It definitely could be done. However we recommend you to search large number of available add-ons to possibly do the job. Unique projects are often short of budget to do quality assurance and testing. Add-ons available through ISV channel are better positioned in the terms of quality (to be software bugs free). If in sales cycle you see that there are numerous gaps in functionality then have your consulting partner research available add-ons. If you see that you are missing more than ten percent and add-ons are not available to cover then think about another ERP platform

2.Integration Programming. In our opinion here the risk of software bugs is lower as we are not touching existing screens and forms. Software Development Kit code samples allow programmer login application (of course without graphical interface but programmatically). Integrations might be favorable when you are not ready to pay for expensive third party data import tools, such as iBolt

At this point lets finish our presentation part and begin picking and answering questions:

Q. We agree with you and we need just data import from external database via web service or http post. However we have several thousand invoice lines per day and our consultant indicated that SDK import performance might be too poor. Have you tried something like that and what are your recommendations?

A. We agree with your arguments. What we would recommend is creation of user defined tables and before launching SDK methods consider uploading your external documents into these tables. At this point program documents import and it should be a way faster

Q. In our case we need couple of managerial reports including Sales Commission and Project Profitability. Is it something where we may deploy SDK?

A. We would recommend you to do in Crystal Reports. We already published recommendations from our experience. Try to base your report on SQL View or Stored Procedure.

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