WDCi Blogs

Good blog on what to look out for when building/updating your API .  Article by Rick Nucci @ Boomi .

It’s great to announce a case study with one of our new customers, weblinc.

weblinc engaged WDCi to build and deploy a rapid integration process between salesforce.com and Saasu. We recommended that weblinc employ our ReadyMade Salesforce CRM/ Saasu Widget in order to get into production, fast.

weblinc now has available an automated bi-directional sync of data between Salesforce and Saasu.

The full case study can be found here.

Working on a ReadyMade for Business Catalyst -> MYOB Accounting for cash sales, here’s the basic process:

This is in response to requests to automate the entry of ecommerce sales into MYOB, eliminating the need to manually key in each invoice.  It takes about 2-3 minutes for each invoice to be manually entered into MYOB, for companies entering even 20 invoices this can be painful.

We should be ready to test in early October, let us know if you are interested to participate in our beta cycle?

If you are interested in different Business Catalyst or MYOB integrations that we don’t have on our website, then why not suggest them to us and we can do some research and blog about our plans and findings.

Worked on our roadmap for ReadyMade’s for the rest of the year.  So far I’ve got:

1. Salesforce -> Quickbooks (Australia)
2. Business Catalyst -> MYOB
3. Salesforce -> MYOB Retail Manager
4. SugarCRM -> MYOB

If I’m off the mark it would be great to get input.  We’ve put up a text box here to take input from site visitors, no questions asked.

We’re looking at integrating the MYOB Retail Manager product to salesforce.com.   This would be a new ReadyMade solution, providing a pre-built solution that integrates the following:

No date set for development and release, but it’s on our roadmap, we’ll keep you posted.

If you are attending, stop by our booth and say hello.

CC and Terry will be there to answer your questions on integration and identity.

Haven’t registered yet?  be quick, the registration list is huge.

Another ReadyMade integration solution is born.  This time it’s Salesforce to Saasu, a pre-built integration solution that runs in the cloud, no software to install, just configure it and run.  Take a look at how it works and contact us if you would like to trial the solution.

Our objective is to simplify integration as much as possible, resulting in lower costs to implement and maintain. Lowering the cost and speeding up the time to market will enable companies of any size to utilise integration technology and eliminate manual intervention and data processing. Let’s face it you don’t have to be a big company to want to save time and money. Apart from using a mature tool such as Boomi Atomsphere, we work with you to define what’s important for a successful integration. Our process takes into account the following:

• What are we trying to achieve: the deadlines, the business drivers
• Connectivity requirements: the applications involved, the processes that need to be integrated
• Data formats: the best way to extract and synchronise your data, data examples
• Data volumes: what data volumes are involved and what is the frequency of updates
• What the integration process looks like: what does it need to do to connect, transform, synchronise and update your data
• How will the process run: when does the integration happen, ie hourly, daily, weekly etc, what happens if an error occurs
• Managing change: how are modifications and minor changes to the integration handled

We’ve put an outline of this process onto our website to help you kick-start your integration.  A bit of preparation will help you understand the process involved and will minimise the cost and frustrations in building out an integration solution.  If you like the idea, have a question or suggestion, email us @ rio@wdcigroup.net and let us know.

We had several clients ask us about MYOB integration. After doing some research we realised why, all the solutions we could find were custom code not true integration. If you are wondering why this isn’t suitable for everyone, you may find our comparison of custom code versus RIO helpful. These clients were interested in synchronising data with several SaaS applications such as Salesforce and @task and they wanted a true integration solution that allowed for flexibility moving forward and didn’t cost a bomb to maintain.

We have built a MYOB connector to address this issue and provide our customers with the ability to connect MYOB with just about any system. Our MYOB integration solution can be implemented in days and is maintained for you, so less hassles if you need to extract or synchronise different data or connect to different systems moving forward.

If you are interested in a trial of our MYOB connector, email rio@wdcigroup.net and we’ll set it up for you.

I’ve read a lot of blogs/articles about integration being a significant barrier to SaaS adoption in the enterprise. Sure integration can be a challenge, but in my opinion it’s not as scary as some of the articles imply.

Using a tool like Boomi, implemented as part of a solution like RIO makes use of the excellent APIs that many of the SaaS vendors have put in place. Boomi offers a true integration solution, has more than 40+ connectors/adapters and enables you to integrate to just about anything. Admittedly some of the SaaS vendors (and many of the on-premise vendors) present some challenges to integration, but there’s always a way to extract and insert your data.

I’m not downplaying the fact that integration can be a challenge, I’m just suggesting that it’s possible and there are tools out there to do it and to do it fast.  Before we partnered with Boomi we looked at 20+ tools for SaaS integration and whilst Boomi was ahead of the pack, many of the tools were decent and have come a long way in the past 12 months.

I’ve posted some reasons why we think that RIO is hot, you may want to check it out.  From our perspective, integration from SaaS to SaaS and SaaS to on-premise applications is achievable within days, with a solution that allows for ongoing monitoring and maintenance at a low-cost.