Dynamics AX and Salesforce Integration

Editor's Notes

• #7: When integrating other systems with Salesforce.com CRM – and orchestrating affected business processes – you need to be able to work with Salesforce.com objects, metadata, bulk jobs, replication and lead conversion.
• #11: Replication. Another key requirement for many organizations is the ability to selectively replicate their Salesforce.com data from the cloud to a secure enterprise storage server. With the iBOLT integration suite, you can replicate data locally from your salesforce.com implementation. You can replicate all data or simply last updates and last deletes as part of a particular iBOLT business process flow.
• #12: Lead Conversion. In Salesforce.com terminology, a lead is a potential customer that you do not yet want to add to your account list. Once a lead is ready to become an account the user can convert the lead which automatically creates an account (the organization or company record), a contact (the individual person record) and optionally as an opportunity (the specific potential deal being tracked).
• #15: We’ve made Magic xpi faster and friendlier so developers can be more productive and connect apps even faster. Magic xpi is Fast & Friendly. First of all, Magic xpi is code-free. It provides a visual interface that lets you easily drag and drop, navigate and visually see the connections you are making. Developers create and change application logic simply by dragging and dropping. (I’ll show you some screen shots in a minute to help you understand). This means that it can be used by business and IT users. They can use the same skill set to connect multiple applications With the development studio (IDE) based on Visual Studio, Magic xpi 4.5 users will enjoy a familiar and intuitive experience and benefit from higher productivity. Enhanced User Experience features include: Drag & Drop Flow Configuration Mini Map & Zoom Bar Direct Access to Properties High productivity features include Multi-Document Support, which means that Multiple Flows and Data Mappers Can Be Active at Same Time
• #16: As promised, here is our first screen shot. This shows our main Flow Document – you simply drag, drop and configures your flows. The Main Pane – Provides a clean, intuitive and familiar look and feel and many new useful and productivity enhancing features including allowing users to configure flows by dragging and dropping Note that this isn’t rigid, everything can be moved around as in Visual Studio. Multi-document Support allows multiple flows and data mappers to be open at the same time for improved productivity The Trigger Area is where all of the different flow triggers reside - showing under what conditions flows start working (e.g. a HTTP request was sent, an event happened in database) The Mini Map lets you navigate quickly within long or wide flows The Zoom Bar lets you easily adjust the visual resolution of the main pane The Solution Explorer provides a visual map for quick navigation of your entire project The Property Sheet provides immediate access to properties so you can change and save on-the-fly The Toolbox lets you easily drag and drop connectors on to your flow Checker Results provide immediate error identification and information for fast resolutions
• #17: Here’s a look at a DataMapper screen The DataMapper shows the visual connections between systems and fields Drag & Drop is literally the fact that you easily connect the sides by just dragging and dropping Multi-Document Support lets you easily switch between multiple datamappers You see the Destination Tree, and visually see valid/invalid connections on-the-fly while making your connections You can quickly see the properties of the node that is selected On the other side, you have the DataMapper Toolbox which shows sources and destinations, such as JSON and XML Data Type Indications - And you also immediately can see the type of data that you are working with
• #18: Magic’s Powerful Orchestration capabilities give you a business process integration solution for the price of a ETL solution Magic xpi is capable of supporting a full range of enterprise integration patterns. With a full scheduler and data mapper, Magic xpi has the capabilities of an ETL. With real-time triggers and  a full range of Web Services, Magic xpi has the capabilities of an ESB. With complex business logic and support for a full range of messaging and protocols, Magic xpi also has Integration-centric Business Process Management capabilities. Combining all these capabilities in one straightforward visual studio editor, makes Magic xpi a powerful platform for integration.  Magic xpi also includes a web-based monitor For those of you who are using or considering integrations via hard coding, remember there is no monitoring The Magic Monitor lets you: Monitor remotely Understand project status at a glance through visual graphs Get alerts, see statistics Manually invoke scheduled business processes See license usage We’ll take a look at some of the monitor screens next
• #19: Here you can see the project work load over time and identify peak times. All the tabs on top easily let you drill down to monitor the more technical aspects of the projects You can choose your time range and see the project load, license usage, alerts if any as well as the activity levels of project triggers
• #20: This is the main entry to the dashboard that shows the health of the IMDG infrastructure, the current license usage of all projects, the total messages processed by each of the projects and the current license usage of individual projects.
• #21: Magic xpi is Robust enough to manage the heaviest transaction loads. Our engines are designed for high scalability and high availability, with self healing and Active-Active Clustering out of the box We employ an In-Memory Data Grid-based messaging layer, which also provides high scalability, low latency and High Availability It Guarantees Message delivery and Elastic Scalability In case of disaster, Magic xpi can maintain its processing power and triggers by moving Magic engines around the cluster hosts automatically (according to predefined rules) The IMDG (In-Memory Data Grid) Messaging layer adds: High Scalability, Low Latency and High Availability Self-Healing, Guaranteed Message Delivery, Superior Performance Elastic Scalability
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