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Magic xpi Integration Platform: The Best Fit for Enterprise Data Integration

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Magic xpi is Magic’s code-free integration platform that lets you streamline business process quickly and easily, integrating them across diverse applications, platforms, and databases. Magic xpi enables you to integrate your business information, logic, and data into cross-organizational, cross-platform business processes. Smooth running business processes reduce operational costs and increase revenue and reduce business risks.

Magic xpi: The Code-Free Integration Platform for Seamless Business Process Automation

Magic xpi is Magic’s powerful, code-free integration platform that enables businesses to streamline their processes quickly and efficiently. By integrating diverse applications, platforms, and databases, Magic xpi ensures seamless communication between all areas of your business. Whether you’re working with ERP, CRM, finance, or other enterprise systems, Magic xpi makes business process automation simple.

Why Choose Magic xpi for Your Business Integration Needs?

  1. Comprehensive Integration
    Magic xpi allows you to integrate business information, logic, and data into cross-organizational and cross-platform business processes. This reduces manual intervention, speeds up workflows, and improves overall productivity.

  2. Certified and Optimized Connectors
    One of the key strengths of Magic xpi is its out-of-the-box, certified connectors for leading enterprise systems such as SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and more. These connectors make it easy to extend the capabilities of your existing software without needing custom coding or complex configurations.

  3. Reduce Operational Costs and Risks
    With smooth-running business processes, Magic xpi minimizes operational costs, reduces business risks, and helps you focus on growing revenue. It eliminates the need for manual data entry, reducing human errors and ensuring that critical data flows freely across your entire business ecosystem.

  4. Scalability and Flexibility
    Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, Magic xpi’s scalable architecture allows you to integrate new systems as your business grows. Its flexibility supports a wide range of industries, making it the go-to solution for companies in retail, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and more.

Use Cases for Magic xpi Integration Platform

  • ERP Integration: Seamlessly connect ERP systems like SAP, Oracle, or JD Edwards with other business applications to ensure data consistency and accuracy.
  • CRM Integration: Integrate CRM platforms like Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, or HubSpot to improve customer experience by ensuring all teams have access to real-time customer data.
  • eCommerce Integration: Automate order processing and inventory management by integrating your eCommerce platform with ERP and fulfillment systems.

 

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  • Detailed insights into how Magic xpi works
  • Real-world examples of successful integrations
  • The key benefits for different industries
  • How Magic xpi enables businesses to quickly adapt to changing markets and customer needs.

Download your free copy now and start streamlining your business operations today!

 

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How to get more out of Salesforce with EDI Integration


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At the end of a discussion we had with one of our contacts, who was inquiring about EDI, Salesforce and how to integrate it all together, I decided to write this article, in order to clarify and structure my arguments with the hope it can help other readers who might fall on this article having the same questions and concerns. I will start by defining some technical terms, prior to getting to the points.

What is Salesforce?

Salesforce is one of the most popular cloud-based CRM. The company is based in California (USA), and it has thousands of users worldwide. We’ve already written an article that provides more about the product, which I invite you to read, and learn more about salesforce itself, and how Magic xpi can be the best integration platform with Salesforce.

What is EDI?

Electronic Data Interchange or (EDI) is fundamentally a standard that regulates the electronic exchange of business documents between trading partners. EDI contains a set of message types. There are many different EDI standards i.e. X12, EDIFACT, RosettaNet…used mainly in different industries and different parts of the world. In North America, the US standard ANSI ASC X12 is p predominantly used.

Some example message types are:

Help: What is EDI2XML as a Service?

EDI2XML as a Service is our popular translation and communication service offering to businesses of all sizes, from various industries. All conversions of EDI files are done on our end, leaving customers with no on-site installation of software or hardware and an EDI project that is on time and within budget.

Download our EDI2XML Translation Service Pricing Package here for more information

Why EDI Integration with Salesforce is Important

Companies of all sizes have different systems in place: i.e. ERP, CRM, Warehouse management…Some other companies might only operate their business using Salesforce.

It is a common situation that companies will have business partners requesting to exchange EDI (regardless of the standard), with them. The truth is that companies’ can NOT refuse such a request coming from a customer for example. They have to comply with such demand and become “EDI ready” or “EDI compliant”.

In a such scenario, the company running Salesforce will be receiving a Sales order (850 as an example) and sending back and invoice (810) for billing purposes, all in X12 standard (for example). What to do about this requirement? Companies need to take action.

Why You Need to integrate EDI into Salesforce

Given the above facts and considering that Salesforce “out-of-the-box” does NOT support any EDI standard, there is no choice for a company leveraging Salesforce, to escape the integration request.

Ultimately, businesses need to Integrate EDI into their Salesforce instance. By pushing EDI messages into their Salesforce instance in a near real-time basis, companies can achieve even more with the Salesforce system.

“Need Integration” Checklist

Each company is unique, and it can be a lot of reasons why your business needs Integrations. Following are the most common reasons a company might need to consider, in order to jump into integration projects:

– Your trading partner(s) is requesting to exchange data electronically

– Your company gets a lot of orders (200+ orders a month on average), this is being taped manually in different systems, thus taking lots of time of your employees, and creating inefficiencies.

– You are looking for a better experience with your customer. You need to get your inventory out that always exact, tracking numbers are received instantly after the merchandise is sent, etc.

– You do not have enough time to process orders. Your costumers need to wait for order processing.

– As third-party sellers, you are getting penalties from Amazon, eBay, and other marketplaces for the reason that you are not shipping orders fast enough.

– Your company receiving negative reviews from your customers who shop online, because of slow service or erroneous orders processing.

What to do Next to integrate EDI and Salesforce

Integrating EDI with Salesforce, is a bit different from other types of integration projects, a company might go through. Due to the fact that EDI is very specific, it requires very specific expertise. Here are some of the important points to consider before going into EDI integration projects:

  • For EDI integration in general, work with an EDI provider, and NOT with VANS (Value Added Networks). VANs are more expensive and less into integration.
  • Make sure the EDI provider is “integration oriented”; meaning he is not only specialized in EDI, but in integration as a concept
  • Do NOT settle half-way with “file integration”, look for near “real-time” integration, directly into your system.
  • Do NOT settle with point-to-point integration”. Developing and “coding” integration points, is very expensive to maintain at long term.
  • Look for the best integration method: look for certified connectors from the manufacturer (salesforce).

Integrate EDI with Salesforce to drive your business

If you need more information or help in determining your need in EDI to Salesforce Integration, please contact our integration experts, and Feel free to request a free demonstration.

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Salesforce integration and Magic xpi: Things you should know

Salesforce is a cloud CRM solution, designed to manage customer relationships, sales, and marketing. The company was founded in 1999 in San Francisco. At that time, the existing CRM systems were quite complicated to configure and expensive to operate, therefore, only large companies could afford a CRM system. The initial idea of Salesforce was to offer CRM in the “cloud” and sell the software through an annual subscription or lease model, computed per user of the software.

CRM IntegrationHelp: What is CRM?

CRM or Customer Relationship Management is a software system that allows your business to manage contacts, collaborate effectively, increase productivity & grow your business. It is based on the preservation and analysis of information to improve the marketing, service and business relations with your customers.

Why Salesforce?

Salesforce CRM is provided in a “software as a service” model (SaaS). Customers receive ready-made, ready to use CRM software application, fully serviced by the provider. Salesforce is accessible in a web-based interface on a Desktop, mobile or tablet. It is also accessible via mobile devices. This offers a great number of advantages to end-users in comparison with other traditional solutions.

When opting to Software as a service, end-users get the benefits of a reduced cost associated with the initial installation and continuous maintenance of the software.

Moreover, the SaaS model reduces to the maximum the upfront investment to acquire hardware equipments where the software should be installed, along with its continuing maintenance and support.

Add to the above, the convenience to be able to access and run the software application, from any device, browser or mobile application from anywhere in the world, since it is sitting in the cloud.

Who uses Salesforce?

Salesforce CRM is the ideal solution for small and medium businesses, as well as for large organizations. More than 150,000 customers of all sizes and various industries are connecting with their customers, partners, and employees with Salesforce’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.

Integration with Salesforce

Salesforce plays an important role within lots of companies of any size, however, it does not cover all the business processes an enterprise can have. Therefore, the enterprise will certainly have in place another software solutions (mainly ERP) deployed in the “cloud” or “on-premises”.

The ERP is mainly the main vehicle an enterprise uses to cover the main business processes (for example, inventory, pick, pack ship…); it is a very common scenario to find a company running a Salesforce instance in its Marketing and sales department, while running an Oracle JDE or SAP or Microsoft ERP, in the other departments.

The above scenario creates a delicate situation where the master data (i.e. customers, accounts, items, prospects…) are entered and maintained separately in each one of the software systems of the company, hence creating the need to “Orchestrate” and “integrate” data between all the above systems, in a safe and automatic manner.

What is Magic xpi?

Magic xpi and Salesforce IntegrationIn summary, Magic xpi is a code-free, low maintenance platform that maps your company’s data, automates your business processes and connects your apps, databases, APIs and more – all on a single platform. Magic xpi is a technology proprietary of Magic Software enterprises, a NASDAQ company, present in almost every country in the world with millions of users Worldwide.

Magic xpi certified connector for Salesforce

To soften the integration challenges and allow enterprises to orchestrate and integrate data between different dispersed systems, Magic Software (MSE) the manufacturer of “Magic xpi” integration platform, built a “Salesforce connector”.

This connector eases the integration with Salesforce by discovering the objects built within the application and allowing the user to build mapping between source and destination, visually with a simple drag and drop process, without the need for extensive development and programming skills.

Moreover, MSE went farther into certifying this connector with Salesforce themselves, to add to it the stamp and approval of Salesforce.

Salesforce API or Magic xpi?

The answer to this question is that using Magic xpi as a backend integration platform, will eliminate the need for point-to-point integration between Salesforce and any system or API.

Add to it, the agnostic nature of Magic xpi, makes any integration from Salesforce to any other system similar in nature: You always do things the same way, without any coding.

I invite my readers to click here in order to download Magic xpi product sheet, in order to know more about this great integration platform.

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Systems integration platform to improve business performance

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Information Technology is developing at a fast pace. Many experts call IT the fastest growing area of human activity. Systems and applications integration, play an important role in the IT space, and has a significant impact on a company’s performance as well as the entire industrial and commercial sectors. This is why, we have noticed a surge in companies’ interest when it comes to integration…

What is “systems integration”?

According to Wikipedia: “System integration is defined in engineering as the process of bringing together the component sub-systems into one system (an aggregation of subsystems cooperating so that the system is able to deliver the overarching functionality)….”

But, it would be a mistake to consider that “system integration” is only the assembly of hardware and software tools together; the essence of the concept is much broader than that.

“System integration” is an activity to improve the efficiency of an enterprise, the decision-making process and the quality of the information, through an automated process, where “heterogenous” systems can communicate and integrate to each other on a real-time basis.

Most companies in today’s business environment, run lots of “heterogenous” systems and software applications, where each one does not communicate to the other; this kind of environment, creates lots of inefficiencies, poor quality of information, which most of the times results in a reduction of profits, and delays in executive decisions.

Automated “systems integration”, comes into play in creating a “bridge”, where data flows between heterogenous systems, software applications and databases in multiple directions, based on pre-defined business rules, as if the systems are totally “homogenous”

Why companies need “systems integration”?

Companies are increasingly adopting software solutions and equipment to solve specific business needs, therefore adding new “standalone” applications and systems to their software management suite. Most of the times, those software solutions, do not communicate natively to each other.

While adopting a specific software application (either cloud-based or on-premise) might satisfy a business need, and solve a business issue, it will create at the other hand a series of new challenges such as :

  • Redundant data entry; most data already exist in another system.
  • Need to hire more staff to manage more systems
  • Open a door for more human errors when managing new systems.

The above challenges are relevant in any size company, be it small medium or large.

How to solve integration challenges?

To solve integration challenges identified in the previous point, companies should not hesitate to embrace integration projects to synchronize and orchestrate software systems, databases, processes and equipment.

To do so, companies should adopt a capable “integration platform” having the following properties:

  • Easy to use, drag and drop
  • No coding required
  • Quick to learn, develop and deploy
  • Easy debugging and simple errors tracking and handling
  • Multiple options for triggering and launching processes and flows
  • Capable of connecting to most of the databases commonly used in today’s marketplace
  • Capable of connecting to the branded software systems (i.e. SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, SugarCRM…) with certified connectors by the manufacturer
  • Have built-in generic API driven connectors for IoT projects
  • Extensible to go beyond the “out-of-the-box” where you can build your own connectors and drivers for specific proprietary solutions

Benefits of Systems integration

The benefits to implement an API-driven solid integration that is capable of connecting to a wide range of business ecosystems, are valuable. Here are the to 5 benefits

  • Real-Time data synchronization

Having a robust integration platform in charge of orchestrating ad synchronizing data and processes, eliminates the delays in data publication. The data is synchronized between different systems in a real-time basis without the need of any human intervention.

  • Quicker data processing

With an automated integration platform, capable of synchronizing data and trigger flows and processes efficiently based on rules and conditions, processing data becomes also real-time, which eliminates the needs of data extraction, transformation and load (ETL). No need for a separate ETL tool.

  • Improvement of employees’ productivity

Data synchronization and orchestration obviously eliminates lots of time and effort for employees to manage and feed/extract data into one system to another. Employees can focus on business related issues, where they can generate more revenues, rather than entering and manipulating data into “heterogenous” systems.

  • Quicker Executive decision making

Having a robust integration platform in place, with all the benefits identified above, company executives will be empowered with the capability to take quick decisions, and avoid the lengthy process of extracting data from different systems, and merging it together in order to build unified data sheet.

  • Increase of profitability

The above benefits put together, will result in a considerable increase of profitability of any company having heterogenous software systems and applications.

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What are the signs a company needs an integration platform?

Following are the top signs in any company, that will indicate an integration platform is required in order to improve business processes.

1- You company has multiple software systems that are standalone, with no direct link in between

2- Your company has a mix of on-premise and cloud-based software solutions that are not connected

3- Employees spend considerable time on their day-to-day job, to feed multiple systems

4- Your company has an eCommerce site that is managed separately from the internal ERP system

5- The IT department at the company is not capable of delivering reports and analytics on-time

6- Unable to respond to business requirements from your clients, to deliver within 48 hours

7- Data is in great mismatch between systems and solutions, due to its redundancy

8- Lots of employees are working on building reports and data entry work

9- No visibility of company’s equipment data and performance (i.e. production machines, cameras, field service data…)

Looking for an integration platform solution for your business?

For over 20 years now, our company has been an official partner of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. a global enterprise software company, delivering Magic xpi, a fully reliable SOA, API-driven integration platform for all connectivity needs. Magic xpi Business Integration Platform delivers enterprise-grade integration, business process automation, and data synchronization solutions, with comprehensive security and proven reliability. Implementing a wide range of certified and optimized connectors and adaptors, Magic xpi integrates leading ERP, CRM, finance, and other enterprise systems, such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM, Google, and many more.

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EDI Integration with JDE Made Easy with EDI2XML

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What is Magic xpi

Magic xpi is a business integration platform proprietary technology for Magic Software. This business integration suite is very powerful and comes loaded with tons of built-in components to build workflows and orchestrate an entire business flow:

  • Database gateways: to connect “natively” to the most common databases used within an enterprise (i.e. SQL server, Oracle, DB2, Pervasive, MySQL, ODBC…).
  • Connectors: to directly connect to JDE, SAP, Dynamics, SalesForce.
  • Triggers and Data mappers: whether to monitor a folder content or to parse and map from one file format to another
  • Connectivity and messaging: through FTP, SOAP, MSMQ, etc.

And the list goes on…

Read: How to Solve the Biggest EDI integration Problems With JDE

How EDI2XML works within Magic xpi

As you might already know by now, EDI2XML is our own technology to convert an X12 EDI transaction to XML. When doing the conversion from EDI to XML, EDI2XML is able to generate the FA 997 (Functional Acknowledgment) as a response to the incoming EDI transaction. In the meantime, EDI2XML installer comes with all the xml schemas (.xsd) of the EDI2XML format.

Since Magic xpi is missing a component to transform X12 EDI to XML, EDI2XML can fill this gap. By creating a custom component and inserting the command to trigger EDI2XML from within a Magic xpi business flow, EDI2XML will turn an incoming EDI file (i.e. 850) into XML format.

In a subsequent step, using a Data mapper component, the user can map the content of the EDI file in XML and map it to any other format (Flat file, database….).

Read: Top 3 Challenges to Overcome in Salesforce and EDI Integration Projects

Mapping EDI from EDI2XML to JDE

As mentioned previously, Magic xpi comes loaded with connectors to major systems such as SAP, JDE, Salesforce, etc. As an example, any table in JDE can be used as a source or destination in data mapping process, using a Data Mapper step within Magic xpi.

Once the incoming EDI X12 file is converted to XML, it is very simple to then map it to JDE:

  • Create a step with a Data mapper
  • Source: XML based on the EDI2XML .xsd (schema file)
  • Destination: the JDE table to feed from the XML format

Once the source and destination are defined, the user can use his mouse to drag and drop to map fields from the source to the destination (JD table).

EDI Integration with JDE

Looking to integrate your EDI or eCommerce processes with Oracle JDE enterprise one, look no further, since we have the best integration option where we turn your Oracle JDE system into a modern REST API, that receives https requests and acts accordingly. LEARN MORE>

This is why we love EDI2XML in EDI integration with JDE

EDI2XML has a rich library of EDI documents to translate and it is expandable. In addition, using EDI2XML within a flow in Magic xpi is a MUST in order to map EDI data to XML and from XML directly to JDE. Most importantly, there is no need for EDI knowledge to interpret the fields and segments, as it is all easily understandable by any person. On top of it all, all .xsd files are provided with the EDI2XML engine!

EDI integration into JDE is as simple as mapping from XML to JDE using drag and drop!

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How to Solve the Biggest EDI integration Problems With JDE

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EDI integration projects have always been time consuming, as it requires an expert team with EDI knowledge and many resources. No matter how small or large the company is, the previous statement falls true for them all. It is the nature of EDI and all the processes involved that makes an EDI integration project complex and problematic for the developers and executives. In this article, I would like to identify a few of the major problems of EDI integration with JDE (JD Edwards) and how to solve them, in order to have a smooth and successful EDI implementation.

About JDE

JD Edwards, also known as JDE, is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that Oracle sells and supports. JDE is offered in two different lines (or editions): JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World. In most cases, JDE software solutions are implemented and deployed in corporate level enterprises. It is less present in small enterprises since most SMEs cannot afford its maintenance costs.

Why EDI integration with JDE is a problem

Read: EDI Integration with JDE Made Easy with EDI2XML

While JDE is a great corporate level ERP solution, offering lots of tools and connectors for data integration (flat file and other format), it does NOT offer out of-the-box an integrated EDI solution or connector that would make EDI integration seamless. It offers the necessary interfaces to define file formats for export and import, but it stops short on completing the loop into a full EDI solution.
For EDI project integration, JDE heavily relies on third-party “EDI translation software” to send or receive EDI files, and to turn the EDI files into a format (flat file for example) that can be easily interpreted and processed by JDE.

Having said that, you can now imagine how complex and time-consuming integration of EDI in JDE is for a company’s IT personnel and developers. The major problems can be summarized as follows:

  1. IT personnel need to have an extensive EDI expertise; for example, a high knowledge of EDI is needed to be able to define the data to be extracted from the incoming EDI file
  2. They need to learn how the “EDI Translation software” works as well as how and when to extract data and transform it into the proper format for JDE
  3. Of course, they need to know how to work with JDE and setup interfaces and connectors. This one is not of a major concern as IT personnel handling JDE are experienced with this platform

Looking to integrate your EDI or eCommerce processes with Oracle JDE enterprise one, look no further, since we have the best integration option where we turn your Oracle JDE system into a modern REST API, that receives https requests and acts accordingly. LEARN MORE>

How to solve the integration problems

In order to solve problems associated with EDI integration with JDE, it comes down to reducing the number of points identified in the previous section to 2 rather than 3, by capitalizing and building on JDE expertise. So how can this be done in order to have an EDI integration project run smoothly, on budget and on time?

Read: Top 3 Challenges to Overcome in Salesforce and EDI Integration Projects

The answer is simple. Companies running JDE can leverage:

  • EDI2XML : the technology to convert EDI to XML (and XML to EDI)
  • Magic xpi: the business integration platform from Magic Software, that is able to orchestrate the entire business process. It is an “Oracle Validated Integration” solution for both JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World.

Magic xpi comes with a lot of built-in features to support an EDI project implementation such as:

  • Communication components (FTP,sFTP)
  • Ability to execute scheduled tasks based on several triggers
  • Ability to execute tasks based on file scanning triggers

EDI2XML has complementary features to make an EDI integration project within JDE very simple and straightforward:

  • EDI2XML is able to generate FA 997 out-of-the box for incoming EDI documents
  • EDI2XML turns the EDI files received into readable XML format, so no need for extensive EDI expertise

Therefore, EDI integration projects with JDE don’t have to be so dreadful anymore. The marriage of EDI2XML, Magic xpi and our team’s EDI expertise can definitely benefit your company and make EDI projects easy and under budget.

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