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THE BUSINESS PROBLEM
This customer saw an increasing number of missed sales opportunities that would have expanded the market of its wireless data collection product if only it could exchange real-time data seamlessly and easily with its customers’ SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. But the customer had no in-house SAP integration expertise and neither the desire nor financial ability to develop them. Also, the customer needed an integration solution for its particular corner of the SAP market that was not cost prohibitive. In other words, the cost of integrating to their customers SAP systems could not outweigh the licensing cost of their product.
THE NLINK SOLUTION
Embedding the NLINK® Automatic Data Collection (ADC) solution into this customer’s product immediately expanded their available market, while at the same time allowed them to focus their development resources on their core competencies of wireless data collection. Junot Systems Professional Services worked closely with their development team to connect NLINK to their product and provide an assortment of pre-configured SAP transactions.
NLINKArchitecture
The SAP R/3 and mySAP products, like all commercially available ERP systems, supports tens of thousands of business transactions that take data in a specific format, process it, and then optionally return data in a potentially different format. Further complicating matters is that no two SAP installations are the same since the deployment requires it to be modified to support that particular company’s specific business processes. Without a product like NLINK, (that supports Rapid Application Integration (RAI) to these complex and sophisticated ERP systems), most companies would be unable to provide fast, cost-effective, repeatable and maintainable interfaces to products such as SAP.
Whenever any prospective partner enters into a full partnership with Junot Systems they receive access to our SAP experts, backed by our in-house SAP R/3
and mySAP systems, and are provided with sales and marketing support during their SAP-related product sales. Most importantly, we work with our partners to develop a pricing model for the integration solution that does not overwhelm the base price of their product.
This customer clearly gained a competitive advantage by embedding Junot’s low-cost out-of-the-box NLINK integration solution into their product. The process is quick, simple and much more cost-effective than starting a custom development effort. And, as a side benefit, the integration process forced this customer to critically examine the structure of their product’s user interface and, as a result, they are now changing it to provide more flexibility for different user implementations.
INTEGRATION SUMMARY
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| Project Keywords |
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| INTERFACES |
| Data Exchange |
Three Business Interfaces
Seven Data Formats
Four Communications Methods
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| SOFTWARE |
| NLINK Components |
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| HARDWARE |
| NLINK Workstation |
Windows 2000 Server
1.2GHz Pentium IV
256MB RAM
20GB Disk
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ENVIRONMENT
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CoNNectors, eXtenders, the NLINK Server and NLINK Modules are components of a total environment for delivering process integration within and between companies. The NLINK product suite has been independently certified on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista as a pre-requisite for continued inclusion in the Microsoft Certified Partner Program. As you would expect, NLINK operates equally well on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. |
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