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WebB2B & SAP

Many Exonet users are small businesses who supply to huge businesses.  A lot of the time, these large customers have electronic supply chain systems, that you as a small supplier would like to hook into.

Coming soon in WebB2B will be SAP OCI/OPI integration and support for the UBL 2.0 XML standard for electronic exchange of orders and invoices.

Keep tuned!

Microsoft CRM overridecreatedon

We recently discovered a little-known feature of the Microsoft CRM API, the ability to create entities via the web service, but with a creation date in the past.

This is very useful for our Exonet to CRM importer, and it is now a standard feature.

Info is here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc677122.aspx

One little gotcha we've noticed is that this particular field MUST be supplied to the CRM webservice in UTC, eg:

CRMConnect Rollouts

CRMConnect is now seeing its first production rollouts. We've learned a lot from the experiences and we are very excited about the potential of the product.

We have been getting great feedback from our customers and as a result we have added several new features to the product:

  • Synchronisation of Stock Groups in Exonet with Subjects in CRM
  • Mapping of sales people and users between Exonet and CRM
  • Support for synchronising extra fields of the "boolean" type

Coming soon: