Integration with Infor Visual Enterprise and DCMS (formally Lilly Software)

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    • March 25, 2008 at 12:44 PM #19116
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        Our current ERP software is Infor’s Visual Enterprise and DCMS. I am looking for information on how to integrate this with Biz Talk for EDI and Business Process management. Has anyone had experience in integrating Biztalk with Visual Enterprise? Or can anyone point me in a direction to find more information. I have been looking every where and I am not coming up with any answers on whether or not this is possible.

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        jmp

         

      • April 2, 2008 at 12:41 AM #19228
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          Jmp

          As far as I am aware, there are no adapters or accelerators that allow BizTalk to interact natively with Visual Enterprise and DCMS. BizTalk has a number of different adapters that allow communication over common protocols such as FTP, SOAP, HTTP, MSMQ etc. and can define Xml and FlatFile structures to cater for almost any message format. In addition, the latest release (BizTallk 2006 R2) includes native EDI handling capabilities.

          As an example of how you might integrate, consider the following solution I implemented a few years ago: Customers would send orders in a variety of formats, including traditional EDI, Xml and flat-file; these orders would be collected by the BizTalk environment from an MSMQ queue and would be transformed into the format for the destination ERP system (a system with no dedicated BizTalk adapters), either using the Xml disassembler, flat-file disassembler or the Base EDI Adapter . These messages were then sent to the ERP system initially over FTP (the ERP system would collect messages as batches – it was UNIX after all). Later, the BizTalk environment was changed to deliver messages to the ERP system over MQSeries to allow real-time processing of orders (for which there is a native BizTalk adapter).

          I hope this give you an idea of how BizTalk can be used without native adapters for the Visual Enterprise and DCMS systems. If you require any further help, please post to this forum or drop me a private message.

          Regards, Nick.

          • April 2, 2008 at 9:40 AM #19237
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              Hi Nick,

               Thank you so much for the feedback. This is extremely informative and helpful. I was starting to worry I would not get It gives me start. I will post again if I have further questions. (Which I am sure I will).

               Thanks again.

              jmp

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