Technology Today: 6.21.2011

Posted by TED Magazine on Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Do you have the tools necessary to integrate your ERP system to Best of Breed Third Party Software?

By Stacey Pandeloglou  

Products are now available to put you on the fast track to enterprise integration and business-to-business connectivity with easy, flexible, and reliable technology. These products can also be used with the popular MultiValue databases that are used by many Activant / Epicor users. 

There are integration experts with many years of experience implementing and integrating ERP and enterprise systems with other products who can help you integrate best-in-class solutions to extend your system and add new functionality. Examples include: Microsoft SQL Server data warehouses, Business Intelligence (BI), Price Optimization, eCommerce Web Storefronts, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and Factory Data Collection. 

Key Benefits:

• Near real time data updates 
• Guaranteed data delivery
• Message-based, fault-tolerant architecture
• High performance that scales to the enterprise
• Automates integration to MS SQL Server
• Simplifies data exchange with other databases
• Data auditing, statistics, and reconciliation
• Multiple export formats and transport protocols
• Easy to learn and use, thin client Web Interface
• Rapid implementation cycle

Before you spend a fortune implementing a new enterprise application with the latest and greatest technology, there are ways that you can breathe new life into your current enterprise application for a fraction of the cost.

Rumsey is a wholesale electric distributor serving industrial, construction and utility customers in the Philadelphia tri-state area. Rumsey uses Activant’s Eclipse running on the UniVerse database for capturing and maintaining all aspects of customer accounts including: order entry, related sales details, and delivery information. Rumsey wanted access to the raw data to create its own custom reports. Read how Rumsey improved their business intelligence and sales reporting capabilities by creating a Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse from their Eclipse system using Kourier Integrator with SQL Accelerator, and Kore Technologies' Operational Data Store (ODS) for Eclipse. 

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Stacey Pandeloglou is the founder and president of Distribution Technology  Group (dtgworldwide.com ), which is committed to offering personalized solutions  that maintain the distributor’s natural process flows and protect their existing  technology investment. Pandeloglou has been providing technology solutions to  distributors for more than three decades with companies such as Trade Service  Systems (now Activant), Descartes, RouteView, ESC, and other distribution-centric  technology providers. Email him at stacey@dtgworldwide.com