In many companies, Microsoft and SAP are the predominant IT platforms. To obtain a full overview of your projects, you require current project information from both sources. CS Connect brings all of the relevant project data automatically together: from Microsoft to SAP and vice versa – dependably and flexibly and in accordance with the specific flows in your company.
CS Connect guarantees a complete and standardised data basis for every person involved in the project: project managers and controllers can continue to use the applications they are familiar with, while all relevant information is maintained synchronously between both platforms.
The main advantages of a Microsoft/SAP integration based on CS Connect are:
- No multiple data entries
- No need to adjust incomplete and/or inconsistent data
- Better and quicker management decisions due to the increased quality of data, reports and decision documents
As seen from the customer company’s perspective, this means: efficient project management, higher added value and faster amortisation on CS Connect.
CS Connect is a Microsoft .NET 3.0 application that meets the most advanced technological standards: SOA, logging, notification/ alerts, Network Load Balancing, multi-instance capacity and much more. Best possible and flexible integration logic configurability is ensured by
- the consistent ETL structure (extract/transform/load) of all interface modules
- flexibly defined field mappings
- a specific syntax to define filter, summarisation and processing rules
Alternatively, the technical link to SAP can take place via
- SAP.NET-Connector
- SAP XI/ SAP PI (Exchange/ Process Infrastructure)
- XML
- Microsoft WCF LOB-Adapter
In addition to SAP ERP (PS, FI/CO, CATS, HR, SD), data exchange, the following are examples of applications also used to support data exchange:
- Microsoft SharePoint Server
- Microsoft Project Portfolio Server
- SAP BW
- SAP xRPM