To realize value across your entire enterprise, your systems need to share data-ultimately giving you all the information you need to power your business decisions.
Unleash the power of SunSystems by integrating it into your business to get your commerce systems working together. Infor FMS SunSystems 5 uses SunSystems Connect to enable integration of SunSystems with your other business applications, allowing you to share core business data with web applications or portals, front office systems or other external applications.

SunSystems 4 incorporates the eBusiness Gateway, a powerful electronic connection that enables you to integrate SunSystems with your other business applications. It is designed to allow web information, or any other kind of application, to exchange commercial transactions with SunSystems 4 in real time yielding important benefits, such as:

• Integration capabilities that enable you to design web applications that need real time access to SunSystems, where data is located both locally and remotely.
• Access to SunSystems functions and logical components from within other application environments.
• Shared data and processes with suppliers or customers by utilizing XML.
• Published interfaces, which will continue to be honored as underlying functions are developed and changed.
  

SunSystems Connect

Overview
SunSystems Connect delivers a powerful electronic gateway that integrates SunSystems with your other business applications using industry standard XML and SOAP protocols. Using SunSystems Connect, you can connect to web applications or portals, front office systems or other external applications.

Key features at a glance:

• Allows other applications to seamlessly integrate directly with SunSystems functions and data. For example, if you have developed an Internet-based application, you could use SunSystems Connect to remotely check credit limits, to use SunSystems currency conversions or to access prices stored in SunSystems.
• Uses the industry standard protocols XML (Extensible Markup Language) and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).
• Data held in SunSystems can be queried, created or updated directly from other applications.
• Data transferred into SunSystems is fully validated through SunSystems business logic.
  

Connecting between SunSystems and other applications

• SunSystems transaction import features enhance with SunSystems Connect, with true, online application-to-application interfaces.
• Transactions can post online in real-time with data validation through SunSystems business.
• SunSystems Connect also streamlines the synchronization of  data held in other applications by replicating updates back into SunSystems, which minimizes the risk of duplicate data entry.
• SunSystems can download bulk changes to other external applications and manipulate the data using definable business rules.
  

eBusiness Gateway

Overview
SunSystems eBusiness Gateway creates a powerful electronic gateway that integrates SunSystems with your other business applications. Using the SunSystems eBusiness Gateway, you can integrate with web applications or portals, front office systems or other external applications.

The Gateway uses a simple, XML-based messaging interface that does not require intimate knowledge of the internal operation of SunSystems and returns all data in XML format, making it highly suitable for display in a browser or interpretation by the web application.

Key features at a glance:

• Allows other applications to seamlessly integrate directly with SunSystems functionality and data. For example, if you have developed an internet-based application, you could use SunSystems eBusiness Gateway to remotely check account balances, to update currency exchange rates or to access supplier/customer information
• Uses the industry standard XML (Extensible Markup Language) protocol
• Data held in SunSystems can be queried, created or updated directly from other applications
• Data transferred into SunSystems is fully validated through SunSystems business logic

The eBusiness Gateway allows other applications to incorporate SunSystems data for important tasks such as looking up address information or checking inventory balances. Other applications can also transfer transactions such as sales and purchase orders into SunSystems.

Although designed with web-based applications in mind, the eBusiness Gateway also connects to other applications and services. It provides an entry point for EDI messages, an interface to workflow engines and can even be used to pass data and transactions between SunSystems installations.

SunSystems eBusiness Gateway delivers…

• Proven SunSystems application functionality integrated into an e-business environment
• Integration capabilities of SunSystems 4 to enable you to design web applications that need real time access to SunSystems 4, where located both locally and remotely
• Powerful process management to ensure transactions move seamlessly between people and systems
• A platform for sharing data and processes with suppliers or customers, as XML provides an industry standard mechanism for connecting organizations.